Projects
The Anxiety of Genre. Horror between craft, theory and the screen idea work group. KU Leuven
This PhD in the arts focuses on fiction film, specifically the horror genre. Based on two realized horror short films (“Muil” and “Souvenir”) and two full-length film scenarios (“Matriarch” and “Pan”), the core of this research entails the contrast between intellect and affect in this genre. This intellect consists on the one hand of a conscious use of the genre with all its rules, viewing expectations and conventions, as well as a desire to ...
Erdos-Ko-Rado problems in finite geometry, group theory and integer partitions Ghent University
This project will investigate Erdős-Ko-Rado (EKR) problems in different contexts. An EKR problem concerns large sets of pairwise intersecting objects. The definition of intersecting depends on the context. 1) EKR in vector spaces. We consider sets of k-spaces pairwise intersecting in a subspace of dimension contained in D={t_1,t_2,…,t_s}. The goal is to classify the largest examples. These sets are interesting from a coding theoretical point ...
Exceptional Groups and Exceptional Geometries in the Theory of Tits Buildings Ghent University
The aim is (1) to write some books on buildings and geometries, focusing on the exceptional types, making use of the Freudenthal-Tits Magis Square, and (2) continue and intensify my research around the same Magic Square.
Assessment of personality dimensions and clinical subtypes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and their predictive value for the (long-term) outcomes after group cognitive behaviour therapy. University of Antwerp
CoCo - Connecting the Context: Supporting supervisors and their organizations in working contextually from a culturally diverse group within residential youth services AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Friends, allies, adversaries: Minority group members’ experiences of positive and negative intergroup contact and their interplay. KU Leuven
Against the backdrop of ethnic segregation, inequality, and frequent negative attitudes in many intergroup settings and societies today, positive intergroup contact can be a powerful tool for promoting the inclusion of minority group members. When people have more positive contact with members of other groups, they sustain more positive intergroup orientations and hold less prejudice. Moreover, when (advantaged) majority group members in ...
Evaluation of the available data on the presence of chlorinated compounds in locally produced food and their relevance to human burden as a basis for a draft action plan tailored to specific target groups . University of Antwerp
Exclusion of social groups and their perspectives from the scientific debate: problems and solutions. Ghent University
Certain social groups are inadequately represented in the scientific community. This can undermine the quality of the different sciences. The project aims at the development of a theory that can help us improve the quality of scientific knowledge by paying attention to, among others, the social aspects of the processes in which such knowledge is constituted.
Projective Remoteness planes associated to singular quadrics and their collineation groups. Ghent University
We aim to prove the existence of singular Mazzocca-Melone sets, and then to classify them. The corresponding geometries are projective remoteness planes. The main objective is to add an additional feature to Galois descent by allowing singular cases, establish the connection with a class of composition algebras, prove functorial properties and initiate the study of parapolar spaces with singular symplecta.