Projects
The Manifesto of the Italian fascist intellectuals. The text genesis and the network behind it. University of Antwerp
The Genesis of Samuel Beckett's Novel Comment c'est / How It Is. University of Antwerp
Nemesius of Emesa and the Genesis of Christian Anthropology KU Leuven
The genes of genre: Classifying literary text types using statistical modelling KU Leuven
This project automatically extracts literary text types in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Dead Sea Scrolls using quantitative linguistic methods. Its main objective is to critically assess scholarly understandings of genre by explicitly modelling the linguistic dimensions of genre, one of its constitutive elements that resists exhaustive manual quantification. To date, genre typologies are scholarly constructs depending on ...
Brugada syndrome research to the next level: identification of genetic modifiers. University of Antwerp
Population-based next generation sequencing to elucidate the complex genetics of Alzheimer dementia. University of Antwerp
Inherited predisposition for breast cancer in the next generation sequencing era: evaluation of the role of genes involved in homologous recombination and G2/M checkpoint control and decelopment of a functional assay. Ghent University
In less than 20% of the familial breast cancers a germline mutation in the major breast cancer genes BRCA involved in hte same pathway by a next generation sequencing approach. Furthermore, we will develop a functional assay to elucidate the role of variants of unknown significance.
The many faces of the Pentateuch: comparing the characterisations of the priestly redaction of the Pentateuch and of Jubiliees' Rewriting of Genesis-Exodus. KU Leuven
The Editorial Nature of the Yalkut Shimoni. An Exploratory Study of the Quotations of Bereshit Rabbah XXII,8-10 in the Yalkut Shimoni KU Leuven
Scientific summary of Phd project
The aim of this research is to explore the editorial nature of the Yalkut Shimoni, a midrashic anthology often dated from the XIII century. While some controversies remain regarding the actual datation of the Yalkut, most scholars date it from the XIII century, but some favour an earlier XI century datation. The Midrashim quoted by the Yalkut Shimoni belong to more then 50 classical midrashic ...