Projects
Power to the households: a data-driven research to unleash the potential of residential electricity flexibility Ghent University
To realise a climate-neutral electricity system, residential flexibility needs to be fully unlocked. Yet, little is known about the barriers that prevent households from flexibly adapting their electricity consumption to system needs. Using advanced machine learning and causal inference tools, this innovative research project sheds a light on these barriers and how they can be overcome. Two proprietary datasets are leveraged to make this ...
Understanding flexibility in responsive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) (MOFFLex) KU Leuven
Adsorption-based separation is a key step to obtain high-purity compounds in the chemical industry. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a promising group of porous adsorbents characterised by their high adsorption capacity. Unlike in most all-inorganic adsorbents, structural flexibility has been observed in certain MOFs. Most research has been devoted to exploring and understanding the structural changes in extremely flexible structures that ...
Sabbatical Iris Kesternich: Labor markets in transition: the role of flexibility and teleworking KU Leuven
n previous years my research has focused on the influence of non-monetary incentives on labor markets. Recently, I have become interested in the big changes in labor markets that lead to an increase in the role of flexibility and teleworking. I am especially interested in how these changes affect gender differences on the labor market as well as gender differences in retirement income. In the first part of the project, I will introduce labor ...
The stability and flexibility of cortical odor representations KU Leuven
Throughout life, we experience a sheer endless number of different smells. Nevertheless, we can recognize many smells after a long time; for example, we never forget the smell of the home of our parents. This shows that the processing of olfactory information in our brain is remarkably stable. On the other hand, our brain is also flexible enough to learn to recognize new stimuli (e.g. a new perfume). How the brain forms and maintains a stable ...
Stochastic control of stacked flexibility in district-level multi-energy systems (MES) KU Leuven
The building sector accounts for a staggering total of 30% of the global energy-related emissions. To meet national and European climate objectives, buildings are currently being decarbonized by the integration of decentralized renewables and storage, turning them into multi-energy systems (MES). However, at present, control systems for buildings are often local and unable to handle uncertainty in the operation of on-site distributed energy ...
Towards cost-optimal energy communities: realizing privacy aware and data-driven energy efficiency, flexibility and climate resilience KU Leuven
Energy communities are a key enabling technology to prevent climate change by facilitating new energy market designs and promoting renewable energy sources (RES). This pivot towards energy communities follows directly from the grid issues created by increasing electrification of demand and proliferation of RES. Pilots have shown that it is possible to address these issues by leveraging the flexibility in energy communities, e.g. in thermal ...
Does being smart pay off? Fitness-consequences of behavioural flexibility in lizards in environments with different complexity. University of Antwerp
Towards increased gait flexibility in Parkinson’s disease. KU Leuven
In the first stage of this study, we investigated the retention effects of a novel split-belt training (SBT) intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The proof-of-principle is based on inducing asymmetric gait by inducing split-belt perturbations in order to address core gait deficits underlying freezing of gait (FOG). The preliminary results strongly suggest that even one session of SBT provoked a more adaptive gait pattern, ...
Learning to oscillate: Computational and EEG investigations of human flexibility Ghent University
In the current project, we aim to expand our knowledge of how human cognition is implemented in the brain. For this purpose, we will integrate two currently separated fields of research. In a first field, researchers try to explain how cognition and behaviour are learned by making slow changes in the anatomical connections within and between brain areas (connectionist dynamics). In a second field, the development of cognitive processes is ...