Projects
Strategic Research Programme: Tracing and Modelling of Past & Present Global Changes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategic Research Programme: Understanding reciprocal neuron-glia interactions in health and disease as a basis for innovative neurological and neuropsychopharmacological therapies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategic Research Programme: Structure and dynamics of macromolecular complexes in health and disease Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A Workable Picture of Reality - Mentalization, Unreliability and Psychiatry in the Fiction of Patrick McGrath KU Leuven
Patrick McGrath (1950) was born and raised in England. As a child, he lived on the grounds of Broadmoor Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane, as the son of the residing Medical Superintendent. He now lives mainly in New York.
Most literary criticism hails McGrath as a Gothic – or even a New Gothic – writer and enumerates a whole list of intertextual links to Gothic texts. McGrath’s own attitude towards that stamp has ...
Project Spanish Federal Research Fund: "Emotion, memory, linguistic identity and emotional acculturation: influences on the learning of Spanish as a migrant language" KU Leuven
Within this project (funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (FFI2017-83166-C2-2-R; Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad. Gobierno de España; PI: Susana Martín Leralta (Universidad Nebrija, Madrid), 27.467€) we investigate the possible impact of migration on language and emotions. Emotional experiences are closely related to the cultures to which we belong and the languages we speak. As a result of migrations, when people ...
Strategic Research Programme: Cancer Cell Targeting in Myeloma and Melanoma (MyMe) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Model Platinum Catalysts KU Leuven
Platinum is used by many industries because of its exceptional catalytic activity, electrochemical properties and corrosion resistance. It is widely used as a catalyst in the chemical production, in fuel cell and electrolyser electrodes and in sensors for analytical and medical applications. Catalysts are key to face grand technological challenges in the fields of energy and environmental protection and to ensure a sustainable supply of ...
Study of electron transfer processes in plasmonic photocatalysis KU Leuven
Over the past few years, the use of plasmonics to improve the photocatalytic efficiency of titanium dioxide (TiO2) has gained a lot of interest in the scientific community. By modifying the TiO2 photocatalyst with noble metal nanoparticles displaying surface plasmon resonance, its activity under both UV and a broad range of visible light can be substantially enhanced. Surface plasmon resonance is an optical phenomenon that gives the noble ...
Synthesis and characterization of polyoligosiloxysilicones KU Leuven
Silicon-based materials are of vital importance in today’s society. From the sand and clay dug up from the Earth to be used in construction, to the highly purified forms used in the production of electronics, computers and medical implants, the chemical element Si has found its way into nearly every aspect of our lives. Nevertheless, our highly technological world is fueled by an ever-lasting quest for progress. This search continuously ...