Projects
Mathematics of random complex systems: theory, computation and applications (UNA-Random) KU Leuven
This project creates an inter-athenaeum consortium bringing together a team of scholars, combining their strengths under the thematic umbrella of “meanfield and interacting particle systems” to shed light on certain complex dynamic systems and to develop new analytical and numerical models and tools to better understand specific problems in neuroscience, finance and economics, machine learning, electric batteries, and smart cities. In the ...
Electoral Accountability in a Complex Federal System. The Case of the Regional, Federal and European Elections in Belgium. KU Leuven
Democratic governance requires that citizens can hold incumbents responsible for the policy they have pursued. In the literature, we can observe that investigating this mechanism remains limited to
- economic voting
- accountability in high-clarity context (e.g., two party systems)
The goal of the current project is to address both shortcomings in the literature. First, we allow the respondent in our survey ...
Exploring HIV drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa as a complex adaptive system KU Leuven
HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) remains a threat to the efficiency of antiretroviral therapy (ART), especially in low-and-middle income countries. To avoid HIVDR it is important that people living with HIV (PLHIV) adhere to their ART, which currently has to be taken on a daily basis. In sub-Saharan Africa, the still high levels of stigmatisation surrounding HIV, the need to take the ART with a meal to assure proper absorption and avoid side ...
Modeling of cellular movements in a complex animal system KU Leuven
Understanding how cells self-organize into complex multicellular systems is a fundamental challenge in biology. Here we propose to advance the field in a project that combines advanced microscopy, tension measurements with laser ablations, mechanical modeling of cell shapes and experimental evaluation of hypotheses. As a powerful model for complex multicellular systems we will use the embryogenesis of the roundworm C. elegans. The embryo ...
Learning the complex genetics of the growing craniofacial system in the ABCD study KU Leuven
The Adolecent Brain Cognitive Development Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health. A few years ago, 11,878 multi-ethnic children ages 9-10 joined the study and researchers started to track their biological and behavioral development through adolescence into young adulthood. As part of this, full head structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was acquired at the beginning and is repeated every two years, ...