Projects
Decentralized Identity Management, Biometrics, and Blockchains: A normative framework to enhance control over biometric identities KU Leuven
The research discusses the privacy and data protection risks of biometric blockchain identities and aims to suggest an appropriate legal framework for reconciling the risks and advantages of such systems.
GINI: Global Identity Networking of Individuals - Support Action. KU Leuven
SafeTravellers : Secure and Frictionless Identity for EU and Third Country National Citizens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
also widespread across EU countries, where a growing number of citizens is targeted by sophisticated fraudulent attacks each year, both
offline and online. 56% of Europeans have experienced at least one type of fraud in the last two years. European security officials speak
of an ...
Unraveling the impact of student entrepreneurship: an analysis of students’ identity, career development and venture performance. Ghent University
Despite the growing popularity of student entrepreneurship and the increased engagement of universities in supporting students to develop startups, the current understanding of the phenomenon is still in its infancy and theoretical frameworks for studying it are embryonic. In response, this project provides new insights into the impact of student entrepreneurship, and by doing so, will contribute to the broader fields of entrepreneurship and ...
Identity, media, and consumer behavior KU Leuven
Identity and chronic illness: A biopsychosocial analysis of the illness integration continuum. KU Leuven
Up to 20% of adolescents have a chronic illness and many struggle with lifestyle changes and treatment adherence. Chronic illness poses major challenges to these youngsters in the transition to adulthood because they have to reconcile the illness with their identity. However, an overarching framework of illness identity (or the degree to which chronic illness is integrated into one’s elfdefinition) is lacking. The present project bridges ...
Responsibility for online identity KU Leuven
Off-line we have generally accepted ways of identifying persons, for instance by looking them in the face and checking the pictures on their identity cards. Online, these traditional identification procedures cannot be performed in a feasible manner. Therefore other technological possibilities are used, often provided by a third party, an identity provider. In part due to the particular features of the online identification procedures, and in ...
Translating Transience to Togetherness: The Hmong Identity within the Conviviality in Europe KU Leuven
This research focuses on the Hmong in Europe, especially on their effort to maintain their identity and navigate conviviality in the European context. My focus is on the Hmong identity in the context of living together with neighbors from various linguistic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. Specifically, this research aims to provide an answer to the following questions: how have the European Hmong adapted and adjusted to their local ...
Justification and Knowledge: A Defense of the Identity View KU Leuven
My doctoral research aims to defend the Identity View; that is, the view that one can justifiably believe a proposition if and only if one knows it. The proposed defense of the Identity View consists of three core stages.
Stage 1 argues for the view that knowledge is the epistemic goal of cognition; that is, of cognitive acts managing beliefs. As such, it has two aims. First, it aims to argue that the received ...