Projects
Advances in the Analysis and Construction of Orthogonal Response Surface Designs and Optimal Screening Designs KU Leuven
In this thesis, new approaches for collecting and analyzing experimental data are proposed. One part of the thesis concerns the efficient collection of experimental data. Traditionally, the literature on D- and A-optimal main-effects designs is centered around cases where the run size is a multiple of four, primarily because D- and A-optimal main-effects designs for these run sizes have nice orthogonality properties for main effects. For run ...
High Energy Photoemission: an easily accessible user facility for surface and interfacial analysis enabling materials research in Flanders by academia and industry. Hasselt University
High Energy Photoemission: an easily accessible user facility for surface analysis enabling materials research in Flanders by academia and industry Vrije Universiteit Brussel
corrosion prevention and semiconductor devices.
PhD Position on Modelling, Analysis and Numerics of Free Surface Flows KU Leuven
In geophysical fluid dynamics, shallow water models are widely used to model free surface flows such as tsunamis, floods, snow or mud avalanches, and atmospheric flows. The equations are derived from the conservation of mass and momentum using the assumptions of small wave amplitudes in comparison to the depth and a constant velocity from the bottom to the top of the water column, which is a severe simplification. Especially in more complex ...
Real-time, label-free analysis of extracellular vesicles and their proteins using surface plasmon resonance technology KU Leuven
Extracellular vesicles are nanoparticles which are secreted from every cell type in the human body. They convey information between cells by carrying over a variety of molecules from one cell to the other. These molecules and the vesicles themselves vary in composition depending on the type of cell, as well as the type of stress which the cell is exposed to. Cells can carry disease biomarkers which can then also be transferred to the ...
SURFACE IMPRINTED POLYMERS TECHNOLOGY AND NANOPORE SEQUENCING FOR POINT OF CARE FOOD MICROBIAL ANALYSIS Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
SIPORE aims at exploring and testing Surface Imprinted Polymers (SIP) biosensors in combination with a portable nanopore DNA sequencing system (MinION) for on-site microbial analysis in the agrifood industry. The two technologies, SIP and whole genome nanopore sequencing, hold great promise for fast, on-site detection and characterization of foodborne bacterial pathogens and for monitoring of ...
Analysis of glycosylation changes on the surface of lymphocytes and their pathophysiological relevance during chronic necro-inflammation Ghent University
The project aims at studying the glycosylation changes on proteins of the lymphocytes' cell surface. Moreover, we want to develop proteomics technology in order to identify the proteins showing these glycosylation changes. In a later stage of the project, we will interfere with these glycosylation pathways in disease models for chronic necro-inflammation to assess to what extent these pathways can serve as drug targets.
SIPORE: Surface Imprinted Polymers technology and nanopore sequencing for point of care food microbial analysis Ghent University
Computational and experimental analysis of convective heat transfer coefficients at building surfaces KU Leuven
Knowledge of convective heat transfer at exterior building surfaces is important for analysis of heat waves, urban heat island effect, thermal stress, indoor overheating, building energy consumption, etc. The CHTC distribution across the facades of a building is very complex as it is influenced by a wide range of parameters. Because of the complexity involved in obtaining accurate CHTC information, a large number of empirical and ...