Projects

The overal objective is to create a toolbox and methodology to produce useful and accurate risk maps

In the doctoral research of Hanne Glas, a flexible methodology for flood risk assessment in developing and data-poor regions was developed. Furthermore, the first steps were taken towards the creation of a risk mapping toolbox. In this project, the existing methodology will be extended to a comprehensive multi-hazard ...

The final goal of the VIREM project is to achieve a reduction of lung and diaphragm damage in ventilated patients in intensive care units worldwide. In this way we want to increase the patient's chance of survival and shorten the length of ventilation, thereby also reducing the cost of healthcare for intensive care. Collaboration with international partners will ensure that our results can be widely used.
Achieving lung and diaphragm ...

This project focus on the understanding of gas-liquid mass transfer and the development of a gas-liquid vortex unit in the CO2 context. Fundamental experiments combined and numerical simulations can bring its design and efficiency to an unprecedented level. Therefore, advanced visualization technologies and novel numerical simulation methods will be used or developed to reveal and understand the mass transfer process between gas and liquid ...

Heat shock protein-90 (Hsp90) is a ubiquitous "chaperone" protein responsible for the (re)folding of "client" proteins that are thereby stabilized. In tumor cells, both the expression level of Hsp90 and its affinity for Hsp90 inhibitors is significantly increased. Recent research also suggests a role of Hsp90 in neurodegenerative disorders, since Hsp90 also folds and stabilizes client proteins in the brain.

Positron emission tomography ...

In the last years, an almost complete transition from CO2 lasers towards fiber lasers has occurred in the sheet metal cutting industry. The success of fiber lasers is associated with lower electric consumption and higher cutting speed for fusion cutting. Together with the change of the laser technology, the radiation wavelength and, accordingly, the physics of the process has changed significantly, resulting in an increase in industrial and ...

Living systems use nanoscale organization to compartmentalize and guide the chemical processes occurring inside them. This spatiotemporal heterogeneity is thought to be a key concept for e.g. signaling specificity, yet is difficult to study as it can only be measured in the intact cell. However, at the current state of the art it is difficult to measure chemical (signaling) processes at high spatiotemporal resolution, or to measure whole-cell ...

Cells are confined by their plasma membrane (PM) which separates their content from the outside
world. Communication between cells and the outside occurs via proteins in the PM. If one compares
a cell to a house, the proteins in the cell’s PM would be the doors and windows. Doors represent
channels which can exchange molecules, such as nutrients, whereas windows represent receptors
(antennas) that allow to monitor the ...

While the increased datafication of society brings about obvious benefits, it is also facing criticism for its treatment of data as an absolute, objective and raw representation of truth. To mitigate this critique, data visualisation research is developing effective ways to convey the uncertainty that underlies it.

Although data uncertainty is commonly associated with statistical dimensions such as modelling errors or forecasting ...