Projects
Power to the experts? A mixed-method study on the attitudes towards, the use and the effects of expert advice in the Belgian policy context. Ghent University
Representative democracy is put under pressure the last few years. To remedy this crisis, different alternatives are explored, including ‘stealth democracy’ which aims to transfer (more) decision-making power to non-partisan experts. Although some support for this kind of democracy can be found among citizens, it is also contested, as became apparent during the Covid-crisis.
Research on ‘stealth democracy’ is less developed than ...
Inside the expert's brain. The neural basis of visual expertise KU Leuven
Experience and learning shape human behavior and alter brain functioning. To investigate the effects of learning on visual object representations in the brain, real-world visual experts are studied.
Many different domains of visual expertise (e.g. bird expertise, car expertise, radiology etc.) have been linked to changes in neural processing, and these neural effects of expertise have been found in a wide variety of brain regions. In ...
EUropean Training and Education for Medical Physics Experts in Radiology. KU Leuven
Medical exposures for radiological examinations represent the highest and fastest growing contribution to manmade radiation exposure in the EU underlying the need for medical physics experts (MPEs), regulators and scientists in industry to bring in new research results and expertise and to deploy resources in addressing this important issue. The EC recognized the urgency and the EU tender ‘European guidelines for the Medical Physics Expert ...
The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven
The imagination of bacteria and viruses – invisible to the naked eye – was ubiquitous in popular culture from the Interwar Period onwards. State actors such as politicians, bureaucrats involved in the rapidly growing public health sector and military officers, as well as medical experts working on infectious
diseases, let their imagination run free on the hunt for ‘deadly germs’. Future visions of pandemics after
the ‘Spanish Flu’ ...
The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization–'Deadly Germs' in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven
SYNergizing material Testing, modeling, cHaractErization, and SImulation Suites: a new generation of experts to enhance Material Testing 2.0 KU Leuven
Enabling X-ray CT based Industry 4.0 process chains by training Next Generation research experts KU Leuven
First-time-right and zero-defect manufacturing of customized lot-size-one products are essential elements of the Industry 4.0 paradigm shift to reinforce Europe’s global leadership in manufacturing. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) metrology has a key role to play in this transition, since it is the only known technology that can certify non-destructively the quality of internal complex structures, such as those produced by additive ...
Network of experts on intra-EU mobility - free movement of workers and social security coordination Ghent University
FRESSCO
Network of experts on intra-EU mobility - free movement of workers and social security
coordination - Lot 1: Legal expertise in the field of social security coordination and free
movement of workers
EC DG Employment, social affairs and Inclusion
Contract number VC/2013/0300
Prof. Yves Jorens
Systematic identification of regulators of the XPO1-mediated nuclear export KU Leuven
Exportin-1 (XPO1/CRM1) is one of the main karyopherins that exports a very large number of different proteins (cargo) from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and therefore controls many vital aspects of cellular physiology. XPO1 malfunction has been reported in several malignancies, including cancer where it is associated with poor prognosis. Small-molecule XPO1 inhibitors, that completely block all nuclear export, have proven successful activity ...