Projects
Strategic Research Programme: Exchange value and public value of content and communication services in future media ecosystems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Augmenting healthcare by supporting general practitioners and disclosing health information to patients KU Leuven
This PhD explores, designs, develops and evaluates a suite of information visualization tools for understanding, exploring, explaining and disclosing health information. This toolset is aimed at both general practitioners and patients and is driven by three underlying research goals: augmenting traditional practitioners’ workflows, boosting patient empowerment, and investigating novel opportunities in devices for supporting communication and ...
Strategic Research Programme: Understanding reciprocal neuron-glia interactions in health and disease as a basis for innovative neurological and neuropsychopharmacological therapies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategic Research Programme: Structure and dynamics of macromolecular complexes in health and disease Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...
Essays in development economics KU Leuven
This dissertation collects four essays that study how the environment in which people reside shapes their well-being and economic opportunities. Starting from the observation that, in spite of impressive growth accelerations in some resource-rich developing countries, human development indicators are lagging behind, the first two essays investigate how natural resource wealth affects government prioritization of human capital building. The ...
DIADIC: Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer and their Informal Caregivers (DIAdIC): An international randomized controlled trial (OZR EU Bonus) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interdisciplinary Research Program: Gerontopole Brussels, centre of expertise for Gerontology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Gerontopole Brussels Centre of expertise of Gerontology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Vrije Universiteit Brussel
o identifying the factors hindering Active and Healthy Ageing, and
o developing strategies to facilitate Active and Healthy Ageing
Given the very broad field of interest related to Active and Healthy Ageing, the research program will be elaborated stepwise in consecutive, more focused ...