Projects
Development and Effect Evaluation of Innovative Methodologies for The Improvement of Safe and Eco-friendly Driving Behaviour Through Gamification Among Truck Drivers in Ethiopia Hasselt University
The beta-cell and the immune system in type 1 diabetes: partners in crime - developing new therapies in type 1 diabetes through better understanding of beta-cell behaviour and use of novel immunomodulators. KU Leuven
Neuropeptides: unlocking the secrets of neuronal development and behaviour in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. KU Leuven
The influence of interest groups on the EU’s foreign policy: assessing and explaining the influence of human rights NGOs on the EU’s human rights promotion in the post-Soviet space Ghent University
The research project will examine (I) to what extent human rights NGOs influence the European Union’s promotion of human rights in the post-Soviet space, and (II) what factors explain that influence. To test the possible explanations, the project will use regression analysis based on quantitative data collected from original surveys with human rights NGOs and EU officials.
Deconstructing sociality: from insect societies to sustainable collective action in human society KU Leuven
Social behaviour is ubiquitous in nature, and lies at the heart of the so-called major transitions in evolution, which resulted in the progressive evolution of eukaryotic cells, multicellular organisms and animal societies. The absolute pinnacle of sociality is reached in some insect societies, where colonies can behave in such a highly integrated and coordinated fashion that they are often referred to as superorganisms. At the same time, ...
PET imaging of free running rats with a high resolution human scanner for simultaneous behavioral neuroscience and imaging University of Antwerp
Mapping the route of short-chain fatty acids along the human gut-brain axis KU Leuven
Sally disagrees with you! A unified theory of human sociality. Ghent University
As fundamentally social beings, we usually keep company with the people that think like ourselves: Our friends and loved ones. This project aims to deliver a unifying theory of human sociality that can account for why the human brain may want to avoid conflict between own and others' ways of thinking. This will be achieved via online behavioural experiments, a highly innovative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) design, and ...