Projects
Quantitative analysis of social investment in high-skilled refugees KU Leuven
The research aims to demonstrate by means of econometric analysis that investing in the human capital and development opportunities of refugees and newcomers can contribute to their successful integration. The obstacles to a successful career and the effects of various forms of support in higher education for the target group will also be analysed. The project combines and analyses several datasets (Labour Force Survey (LFS), tax records, ...
The Institutional Response to Crises and European Identity: A Quantitative Analysis of Public’s (un)Responsiveness in Times of Crisis KU Leuven
Since the early 1990s, the European Union (EU) has experienced international and domestic crises of different nature, – financial, terroristic, migration and health issues –, which encouraged the exacerbation of a political convergence and a sense of Europeanness among European citizens (Checkel & Katzenstein, 2009), gradually transforming the “permissive consensus” for European integration into a “constraining dissensus” (Hooghe & ...
Innovation Mandate: Quantitative analysis of musculoskeletal motion by dynamic computed tomography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This project aims to develop a software that serves as a service platform for processing dynamic
muculoskeletal (MSK) images and derive quantitative kinetic information from them to support treatment
of joint diseases.
Quantitative light element analysis in inorganic materials KU Leuven
Gender dynamics in political debates. A diachronic quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis of verbal interruptions in the federal parliament of Germany. University of Antwerp
Quantitative image analysis for high-throughput phenotyping of individual bacterial cells KU Leuven
Bacteria are small unicellular organisms that often exhibit short generation times, are genetically tractable and easily engineerable. Although bacteria represent simple forms of proliferating cells, without additional layers of internal organization (e.g., membrane-enclosed organelles) or cell cycle regulation (e.g., cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases) seen in eukaryotic cells, they too need to spatially organize their cellular content to ...