Projects
Combining mathematics and physics beyond the introductory level: the case of partial differential equations KU Leuven
Victims on the Job: A Criminal Event Perspective on the Dynamics Underlying Physical Violence Against Police Officers Ghent University
I adopt an event based approach to study physical violence against police officers. I acknowledge the interplay between individual and contextual factors and their combined impact, as well as the possible social transmission of physical violence within professional social networks on the likelihood of physical violence against police. Theoretical models based on previous research represent a fractured explanation and do not fully capture the ...
Investigating the local structure of topological crystalline insulators using channeling techniques KU Leuven
For decades, ferromagnetic semiconductors have captured the scientific community's interest, harnessing in a single material the carrier's charge as in a semiconductor and the spin as in a ferromagnet. Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) are among the most well-studied families of ferromagnetic semiconductors, and pioneered multiple spintronic device concepts exploring the interactions between spin, electric current, and light. Mn-doped ...
Experimental investigation of the phonon density of states in superconducting thin films, nanowires and nanoparticles KU Leuven
Superconductivity is one of the most intriguing phenomena in solid state physics. It is characterized by the condensation of electrons into Cooper pairs, i.e. below a particular critical temperature there is an effective attractive interaction between electrons, and in bulk materials this manifests itself in (i) the disappearance of electrical resistance and (ii) the expulsion of an external magnetic field. This attractive interaction ...
Emergent Phenomena in Multicomponent Quantum Condensates. University of Antwerp
Embedded and distributed systems. University of Antwerp
The micromechanics of DNA KU Leuven
The central focus of this thesis is the study of the physical properties of DNA, the carrier of all genetic information. These properties set the ground rules for the organization of the chromosomal genome and its interactions with the cellular machinery. In particular, the work in this thesis can be condensed into three principal aspects of DNA: Firstly, the micromechanical elasticity and its pervasive character of determining long-range ...