Projects
A cardiovascular simulator for medical device testing KU Leuven
Cardiovascular simulators are a class of tools reproducing the human physiology of the cardiovascular system. With the increasing of computer power, simulators improved in the past decades in terms of accuracy and complexity. The use of simulators is currently increasing in the medical fields and is encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission with the Avicenna Alliance. Simulators can be used to test new medical ...
Interdisciplinary Network for Fundamental and Medical Research on Lung cancer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
IMAGica: an Integrative personalised Medical Approach for Genetic diseases, Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias as a model Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...
Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400 KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the introduction and spread of brick architecture in the county of Flanders in the 13th and 14th centuries. By use of building archaeology of existing buildings, supplemented with archaeological and iconographical information about no longer extant monuments, the thesis lifts medieval brick architecture from the determinist view of brick as a cheap substitute for stone, the common explanation for the rise of ...
DNA of urbanization: the early urban settlement of Antwerp, late 9th-11th century. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Phygital Heritage: Communicating Built Heritage Information through the Integration of Digital Technology into Physical Reality KU Leuven
Built heritage forms a unique asset by expressing the richness and diversity of our history, possessing vast amounts of information that varies from factual and explicit, to more tacit and embedded. Tacit knowledge of built heritage is typically more challenging to communicate to visitors in understandable and engaging ways due to its implicit and abstract character. Therefore, we investigate how built heritage information can be disclosed ...