Projects
The first hurdle in oral drug disposition: exploring the impact of gastric residence on drug behaviour in man KU Leuven
Reducing the late-stage attrition of potential drug candidates can be considered one of the major challenges for the oral drug development process to date. One of the factors potentially leading to the attrition of a drug candidate at the clinical stages of the drug development process is formulation failure. Formulation failure can be attributed to the fact that selecting the appropriate formulation strategy often occurs on a trial-and-error ...
God planted Paradise in Eden and there He placed man He had shaped. A Critical Study of the Sermons De Creatione Hominis (CPG3215-3216) and De Paradiso (CPG 3217 KU Leuven
Translation, critical source analysis and exegesis of three little studied/neglected Greek treatises, handed down in Gregory of Nyssa’s name, being two sermons de creatione hominis and one sermo de paradiso. First of all, these texts will be translated into English for the very first time using Hörner’s main text (1972) as a base and they will be provided with explanatory notes. After that, a critical interpretation of the text will be given ...
Charismatistic leadership in social movements in Belgium during the interwar years. Hendrik De Man, minister in shirtsleeves, in a comparative perspective. Ghent University
The research project examines ‘charismatic’ leadership in social movements, a subject that has been neglected by historiography since Max Weber’s conceptual notes at the beginning of the twentieth century. The focal point is the Belgian labour movement in the interbellum. After the first generation of charismatic leaders at the end of the nineteenth century, a new generation emerged, which, with its preference for a nationally oriented ...
“Rinascimento Ritrovato”. The Renaissance Revival and the Universal Man in Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938) and His Time Ghent University
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along with material masterpieces, the Renaissance has left us an immaterial legacy, a concept, still dear to our hearts,that has shaped Western culture down the last two centuries: the ‘Universal Man’ [UM]. The UM, Leon Battista Alberti put it, is ‘a woman/man that can ...
First principle molecular dynamics simulations for complex chemical transformations in nanoporous materials Ghent University
Chemical transformations in nanoporous materials are vital in many application domains, such as catalysis, molecular separations, sustainable chemistry,…. Model-guided design is indispensable to tailoring materials at the nanometer scale level. At real operating conditions, chemical transformations taking place at the nanometer scale have a very complex nature, due to the interplay of several factors such as the number of particles present in ...
Study of the mechanisms involved in MUC1/MUC13-induced intestinal barrier disruption during inflammatory bowel diseases: a translational approach. University of Antwerp
Study of surface mechanisms in organic film mediated area selective atomic layer deposition KU Leuven
Modern chips are likely the most complex man-made devices ever produced. Their manufacturing heavily relies on top-down patterning techniques, which struggle to meet the ever-increasing requirements for alignment and minimum feature size imposed by the never-ending device miniaturization. Area-selective deposition (ASD), a bottom-up substrate-selective material deposition technique, has the potential to alleviate such manufacturing ...