Projects
Translation and diaspora. The system of literary translations in Russian émigré journals (1919-1939). Ghent University
Diasporic communities are often characterized as being 'in-between'. Having to navigate between their own culture and that of their hosts, they have to rely on different types of cultural mediation, with constant (re)negotiation between home country – host – diaspora. The diasporic periodical is a site where such mediation becomes visible. Driven by digitalization, research on periodicals is gaining scholarly interest, but the function ...
Establishing patient-derived organoids to rationally design therapies for patients with inflammatory breast cancer University of Antwerp
Magical Madurese Pigeon Whistles: How Music Mediates Inter-species Relations and Resounds Across Javanese Socio-Political Boundaries KU Leuven
As a hallmark of Anthropological concerns, my investigation into interspecies relationalities remains a quintessential inquiry as to how humans relate to others and their environment. I endeavor to enrich Anthropological inquiries and compensate for lacunae within ethnographic monographs that have neglected to consider animals as subjective forces. I breach the narrow confines that depict animals as passive, symbolic objects that are pushed ...
PoC project Compact asynchronous TRM Modules for field measurements with 2D flexible scanning solutions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Statistical methods for estimating age and time-dependent epidemiological malaria parameters and the analysis of social network data as a new approach to the development of malaria elimination strategies Institute of Tropical Medicine
Data compression for probabilistic logics KU Leuven
Learning propositional logical theories from examples is one of the quintessential problems in machine learning, as well as the most basic setting for inductive logic programming and logical and relational learning. One of the most fascinating aspects of logic learning is that of predicate invention, that is, the ability to automatically introduce new predicates in the language that not only compress the data, but also provide insights into ...
In the moonlight of GTF3A: a new way to see innate antiviral signaling? Ghent University
Herpes viruses are omnipresent in the human population and cause a range of benign but unpleasant diseases. However, in a small percentage of people, infections with herpes viruses become recurrent or invasive resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. The quintessential example is herpes encephalitis (HSE) that causes neurological sequela in most patients and lethality up to 25% even with appropriate antiviral treatment. The immune ...
BOF Expatriation allowance VLIR Scientific Chair Van Dijck 2020 - Stad en stedelijkheid in de Lage Landen. University of Antwerp
Redefining Picturesque and Symbolist Qualities in the fin-de-siècle: the Case of Bruges “the Beautiful/the Dead”. Ghent University
When calling a place “picturesque”, do we mean “pretty”, or perhaps “predictable” or “superficial”? Over a century ago, when symbolist artists sought melancholic views to express the hidden soul of things, were such “picturesque” places suitable? One way to find out is to scrutinize painted, printed and drawn portrayals of a city labelled both picturesque and symbolist: the Belgian city of Bruges. Each of Bruges’ identities around 1900 - ...