Projects
How are social divides produced in contemporary European labour markets? A macro-micro-macro study of the impact of labour market policy, employment and welfare institutions on workers working conditions and job quality KU Leuven
This is the first study investigating the interaction of macro- and micro-forces producing social divides in contemporary European labour markets by using a macro-micro-macro research model. Social divides are defined as differences in working conditions and job quality of different groups of workers. The research project consists of several steps. Firstly, by using latent class analysis social divides are uncovered. Secondly, country-level ...
Gene therapy for HIV/AIDS based on the interaction of HIV-integrase with LEDGF/p75. KU Leuven
Co-Development of Internalizing Problem Behaviors in Adolescence: Genetic and Temperamental Origins. KU Leuven
Adolescence, that is, the period of life between 12 and 22 years of age, is a crucial phase for the development of internalizing problems. However, the development of these problems and the developmental interplay among them are not entirely clear. The present project studies three types of internalizing problems (i.e., loneliness, depressive mood, and social anxiety) and uses a comprehensive model of temperament and its associated ...
Online market research surveys. KU Leuven
Multi-modal signal processing algorithms for extraction of coupled sources in combined audio and EEG recordings. KU Leuven
One in five experiences hearing loss. The World Health Organization estimates that this number will increase to one in four in 2050. Luckily, effective hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants exist with advanced noise suppression and speaker enhancement algorithms that can significantly improve the quality of life of people suffering from hearing loss. State-of-the-art hearing devices, however, underperform in a so-called ...
Experimental evolution in Candida biofilms: does drug tolerance facilitate drug resistance development in fungi?Experimental evolution in Candida biofilms: does drug tolerance facilitate drug resistance development in fungi? KU Leuven
Invasive fungal infections pose a profound and growing public health threat with treatment failure and mortality estimates often surpassing 50%. Only three major antifungal drug classes are available to treat lethal fungemia and the incidence of resistance to these drugs has risen significantly in recent years. Moreover, multidrug resistant (MDR) ‘superbugs’ like Candida auris have emerged. Despite these alarming concerns, fungal infections ...
Knowledge Based Neural Network Compression: Context-Aware Model Abstractions University of Antwerp
Evaluation Models for the Resilience and Stealth of Software Protections and Malware Ghent University
Software protections are used benignly for protecting assets and maliciously for hiding malware. Attacks thereon are executed maliciously for attacking assets and benignly for analyzing malware. It is commonly accepted that protection strength is determined by three aspects: potency, resilience, and stealth. Whereas potency has received quite some attention and many complexity metrics have been proposed to measure it, resilience and stealth ...
Foreign competition and the reallocation of economic activity within and across firms: measuring the productivity gains and the impacts on workers KU Leuven
This thesis consists of three chapters on the influence of firms' market power on derived factor demand and the reallocation of productive resources.
In the first chapter, I investigate how imperfect competition impacts resource reallocation and how we tend to measure it. The covariance between firms’ productivity and market shares is commonly used to analyze how the allocation of resources evolves within an industry in the aftermath ...