Projects
Research and development of a low-cost, portable visual field testing platform using a smartphone and virtual reality headset for the early detection of glaucoma KU Leuven
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, affecting about 64 million people. A large proportion of glaucoma cases worldwide are undiagnosed or sub-optimally managed. More than half of people living with the disease, in low-income countries, are unaware of the condition until it progresses to an advanced stage, resulting in visual impairment. Since adequate treatment significantly slows or halts progression of the ...
Kilim as a Visual Medium for Contemporary Social-Cultural Concerns: an Artistic Participatory Research with Women Artisans in Iran. Ghent University
<p>The research explores the agency of traditional rug weavers in northern Iran. The central methodology of collecting data and producing knowledge is based on collaborative rug design and production with the research participants. This practice research reflects on the ethics of representation of the craftswomen and their material culture in Iran and in the world.</p>
Dissensus and Connection as Artistic Tactics. A research on visual arts as a space for political subjectification KU Leuven
My PhD project aims to shed light on tactics of 1/dissensus and 2/connection. Doing so, it wants to contribute to the development of different democratising spaces of showing and togetherness. My starting point is the observation of e.g. Isabell Lorey that our late capitalistic society is governed through precarity and individualisation. The purpose of my research is to refine the discourse of the arts utility by investigating its ...
International Joint Research Group - Joint Laboratory on Audio Visual Signal Processing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The forgotten audience? A research on the role of television fiction in the identity construction of migrant youngsters: A reception analysis from a visual ethnographic perspective Ghent University
The purpose of this research is to elaborate on the meaning of popular fictional televisionprogrammes for migrant youngsters. We will study this by means of qualitative audience-and reception research. More specifically, we will study the impact of popular fiction contents on the identity construction of migrant teenagers. To do this, we will use a recently developed method visual ethnography.
Image Media, propaganda and politics. An investigation into Nazi film policy in Belgium and Europe, followed by a theoretical and interdisciplinary research on the significance of propaganda through visual media. Ghent University
Viral vector technology as a gene therapeutic tool in search for a cure for cystic fibrosis. KU Leuven
Optimize viral replication in primary human airway epithelial (HAE) cells for use in antiviral research to combat respiratory viral infections KU Leuven
This project focuses on exploring the use of HAE cultures to study the treatment of viral respiratory infections. HAE cultures will be used to evaluate novel antiviral strategies to combat Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection and explore the kinetics of replication of different RSV virus strains. This will result in an optimized culture system to be used to characterize viral strains in a relevant ex vivo system and link viral factors ...