Projects
Francesco Filelfo's 'Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii' and the Rhetoric of early modern Consolation Literature. KU Leuven
When on the first of January 1461 Jacopo Antonio Marcello’s eight-year-old son Valerio died, prominent humanists produced consoling essays and poems for the boy’s father. The most important of these writings was Francesco Filelfo’s “Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii” (“Consolation of J.A. Marcello on the death of his son Valerio”), a consolation of more than 30,000 words, which combines portraits of and ...
Making sense of screening for new psychoactive substances: Towards on-site receptor-based sensing of synthetic cannabinoids and opioids. Ghent University
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs specifically designed to circumvent legislation and detection by commonly implemented screening assays, typically immunoassays and liquid chromatography coupled to (high resolution) (tandem) mass spectrometry. With new NPS being introduced every week, it is obvious that targeted approaches, which are based on the detection of a substance’s structure, are inadequate and outside-the-box-thinking is ...
MatheMorphosis: an integrative model of limb development KU Leuven
Fascination with pattern formation in living organisms is millennia old. One of the biological models to investigate this process is the developing limb. Our understanding of limb development has progressed greatly over the last half century. However, the intricate interactions between biochemical (e.g. genes, proteins) and biophysical (e.g. cell-cell interactions) factors become too complex to be understood without the help of computational ...
The integration of untargeted fingerprinting and targeted multi-response kinetics for accelerated shelf life testing of shelf-stable foods. KU Leuven
Shelf-stable processed foods can be preserved at room temperature for a very long time (usually more than two years). Conducting a complete shelf-life test over the whole estimated validity of a shelf-stable product is extremely time- and resource-consuming. To overcome this issue, food scientists often conduct accelerated shelf-life tests, typically exposing the product to elevated storage temperatures. For this purpose, an ‘a priori’ ...
Advanced multi-stage programming with computational effects KU Leuven
Developer productivity and software performance are two key properties of software development that are hard to achieve simultaneously. The former requires rich layers of abstraction and highly reusable, contextindependent code. In contrast, the latter aims at code without generic overhead or indirections that is highly specialized. General-purpose optimized compilation can automatically improve the performance of high-level programs, but is ...