Projects
Working With/In the Gap. Japan-ness in Architecture of Experience. KU Leuven
Working With/In the Gap: Japan-ness in Architecture of Experience is the result of a creative practice research in which architectural habit(at)s that approach space in terms of objects are recast through the lens of Japanese architectural practice. In contrast to the conceptualization of architecture as material and constructive, Japanese architects foreground movement and performativity. In Japan space does not figure as empty distance ...
Re-designing organizations to increase agility: how can firms reconfigure their organization models to compete in a dynamic, post-Covid world KU Leuven
“In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” Jeff Bezos, 2018 In 2020, Covid-19 irrevocably changed the world. Many of the shifts initiated by the crisis, post-globalization, teleworking, contactless consumerism - to name but a few – will be ...
Between Byzantium and Rome, between Autobiography and Literary Monument: the Humanist epistolarium of Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481). KU Leuven
Labour market choices and well-being of individuals inside households: preferences, opportunities or traditional role patterns? KU Leuven
The aim of our project is to better understand labour market outcomes by modelling the choice of a job as an interaction between job opportunities for individuals (what jobs are available and for whom?), job preferences of individuals (which individuals are willing to do these jobs?) and a household decision process turning the preferences of its members in a choice (how to distribute time spending on working, household tasks, children,... ...
Handling technology with care: The introduction of next-generation sequencing in diagnostic clinical practice KU Leuven
When the human genome was first mapped at the beginning of the 2000s, the expectations for its impact on our understanding of human health and clinical care were high. The gained knowledge and related enthusiasm for future achievements propelled the development of faster and more cost-effective DNA sequencing techniques. This Next Generation of Sequencing (NGS) allows big components, or even the whole human genome, to be mapped in a rapid, ...
Established professions in the new landscape of expert work: rethinking dominance, social inequalities and authority. Ghent University
Healthcare systems are no longer based on medical domination but on seemingly balancing powers among disciplinary groups. This is the problem that this project proposes to study, by doing ethnographic observation in three countries, as to understand the way the professions organise their work and relate one another.
The Idea of Interconnectedness in Igbo Subaltern Knowledges: A Search for Identity in Response to Modernity KU Leuven
Modernity could not have come to Africa without a substantial disruption of premodern thought-patterns and ways of life of African people. This is true of the Igbo people of Nigeria, which forms the context of this research. In their case, modernity comes with all-ramifying transformations that resulted in identity crises. The term 'identity' is here used in the widest possible sense of a people's entire way of life. Identity is not fixed; it ...
Alphaherpesvirus-mediated modulation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells Ghent University
Alphaherpesviruses have developed a sophisticated and fine-tuned balance with the immune system. Disturbance of this balance can result in aggravated alphaherpesvirus disease. For example, deficiencies in the type I interferon (IFN-I) response are associated with life-threatening encephalitis caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV).
IFN-I are the strongest antiviral molecules produced by the innate immune response. Plasmacytoid dendritic ...
Balancing Innovation With Optimization in Oncology: Avenues for Bridging the Cancer Clinical Research Gap KU Leuven
Cancer is an umbrella term referring to a group of debilitating and potentially fatal diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and eventual spread of cells that have undergone genetic mutations. Together, these diseases pose an enormous burden on healthcare systems worldwide, killing millions of people each year, and costing the global economy close to a trillion dollars annually. There are various therapeutic modalities available to ...