Projects
HELICITY: Evolution of correlated traits in response to city life: helicid snails as windows on the consequences of urban history Ghent University
Urbanization is one of the most dramatic land-use changes caused by humans, combining habitat fragmentation and loss, pollutions and increased temperature. While it causes numerous population declines in many species, others persist or even thrive in cities, possibly through evolutionary changes. In this project, I will study how urbanization shapes multivariate phenotypic evolution in such an organism, including not only life-history ...
The Aspects of Community-Based Approach towards Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings, as a catalyst for Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Heritage Buildings in the Historic Town of Bagamoyo. Hasselt University
The Cuban Magnolia species (Magnoliaceae): assessment of the genetic diversity and the underlying evolutionary history Ghent University
We will assess genetic diversity and study evolutionary history of endangered Cuban Magnolias at species and population level to reveal evolutionary patterns that led to present--‐day diversity and distribution. Using fossils, times of origin and radiation will be estimated and aligned with known geologic and climatologic history. Scientific knowledge generated will also be of value towards conservation of Cuban Magnolias.
Towards an explanation for urban vitality in times of crisis. A study on the impact of economic integration and intra-regional migration on the urban character in Late Roman Africa. Ghent University
The Late Roman 'success story' of urbanization in Africa Proconsularis, Byzacena, Numidia and Tripolitania has largely been established through generalizations of individual case studies. Wide studies of urban development that actually explain this development hardly carried out and that have been, did not venture beyond a certain time frame (the Principate, i.e. the first three centuries after Christ, or the late Roman period). This research ...
Medieval urban toponymy in the duchy of Brabant, a mirror of urban development? Ghent University
This research focuses on medieval town development within the former duchty of Brabant. Surprisingly often, identical toponyms appeared in medieval towns. It is my ambition to explain this intriguing phenomenon and to gain new insight in medieval town development and the multiple uses of public space.