Projects
Environmental change across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: An integrated, multi-proxy approach KU Leuven
The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary mass extinction event is inextricably linked to the direct consequences of the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago. Yet, it has been argued that other environmental factors, such as climate change caused by pre-impact Deccan Traps mantle degassing, and sea-level change across the K-Pg boundary, could have contributed to this mass extinction event. This dissertation aims to clarify to what extent ...
Impact of bio-energy culture in the environment: greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration in soil, and biodiversity. University of Antwerp
Ecological role of cyclic lipopeptides from plant-beneficial Pseudomonas KU Leuven
Cyclic lipopeptides (CLPs) are specialized bacterial metabolites that show amazing structural diversity. Collectively, non-pathogenic Pseudomonas bacteria produce a variety of CLPs. In this study, representatives of known CLP families and novel CLPs discovered by genome mining will be functionally characterized with respect to their contribution to bacterial motility, biofilm formation, and phytopathogen inhibition.
ECO-DWOR: Ecological durablewater and oil repellency Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile industry
The Emergent Urbanism(s) of Suburbio, GuayaquilA spatial ethnography of incremental grassroots development in times of a changing society and environment KU Leuven
Guayaquil – Ecuador’s main port and largest settlement – is a 70 per cent self-built city located amidst the most biodiverse estuarine complex of the South Pacific: the Guayas River Estuary. The city’s first suburbs proliferated in ecologically fragile zones in which the urban fabric and public spaces were crafted incrementally by various generations and through a multitude of design decisions. These now consolidated low-income neighbourhoods ...
Environmentally Controlled Facility (ECOTRONS) Hasselt University
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...