Projects
Energy crops on agricultural land enriched with heavy metals: functional repair by phytoextraction and/or energy crops as a sustainable alternative for classic agriculture. Hasselt University
Sustainable Thin Film Solutions for Frontier Energy Applications (SuFiEn) KU Leuven
Microbial community evolution and functional dynamics in anaerobic bioreactors for the sustainable production of green energy Ghent University
This doctoral project focusses on microbial diversity in anaerobic digesters and bioelectrochemical systems, which have largely been treated as a black box despite the importance of microbial communities and their associated activities to the functioning of these bioreactors. By combining new ecological principles and molecular techniques with mathematical guidance and statistical analysis, it will be possible to explore the relationship ...
A new osmotic membrane-microbial electrolysis cell (OMEC) technology for sustainable wastewater treatment, resource recovery, and energy production Ghent University
Global demand for water, food, and energy are projected to grow dramatically in the next decades. Forward osmosis (FO) membrane processes have been emerging as an effective tool for water reuse, resource recovery, and energy harvesting from wastewater. This study aims to develop new technology for simultaneous wastewater treatment/reuse, nutrient recovery, and energy production. A new FO membrane with more beneficial properties compared to ...
Towards Sustainable Personal Computing Devices through Energy Harvesting KU Leuven
This PhD project builds upon existing research in DistriNet on low power design, energy harvesting, and long life electronics in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the candidate's master’s thesis work on the simulation of photovoltaic cells. The candidate will investigate hardware and software techniques to create personal computing devices (smart displays, phones, tablets, laptops) that can operate for decades on harvested ...
Area-selective deposition: a bottom-up technique for creating nanoscale structures KU Leuven
The miniaturization of dimensions of nano-electronic device brings major challenges to the patterning process by lithography. In addition to scaling resolution, the accurate pattern placement is becoming increasingly difficult. The reduction of the active footprint also implies an evolution that involves 3D structures with high aspect ratio and complex shape. This evolution poses major challenges for the fabrication processes. Therefore, ...
In search of sustainable building blocks: the analytical path to a bio-aromatic society. University of Antwerp
IoBaLeT: Sustainable Internet of Battery-Less Things Ghent University
IoBaLeT: Sustainable Internet of Battery-Less Things
1) Summary of scientific goals IoBaLeT aims to bring the performance (i.e. throughput, scalability and range) of battery-less IoT networks on-par with its battery-powered counterparts, by enabling active rather than passive communications and computing. An end-to-end networking ...
Smart, Sustainable and Grid-Friendly Buildings: Optimal Integration in LV Grids KU Leuven
To mitigate rising CO2 emissions, the EU has put in place an unprecedented emphasis on the modernization and sustainable development of the building sector. The most recent EU directive imposes that all new buildings should be nearly zero-energy (nZE), i.e., achieve a yearly balance between consumption and on-site renewable energy production. To ensure the profitability of sustainable investments, buildings should progressively become ...