Projects
BELGIAN MOMO HERITAGE ON THE RADAR - Re-reading modernist housing estates: an inquiry into the value of threatened heritage sites and the possibilities of adaptive reuse as a method for re-evaluation Hasselt University
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
The backbone of the state: the Four Members and the Clergy of Flanders, ca. 1585-1700. Ghent University
Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts of the sovereign and defended the interests of politically emancipated groups in society. Their composition and political role varied from state to state, and was subject to change over time. The aim of this ...
Catalytic upgrading of polyolefins via oxygenation and in-chain ester formation using Ti and Sn zeolite catalysts KU Leuven
Plastic wastes are so far underexplored as feedstocks for producing ‘upcycled’ materials. This project, focusing on the large available mass of end-of-life polyolefins, aims at selective oxidation of these hydrocarbon-type materials. As a first option, alcohol (and ketone) groups are created along the polyolefin chain. For this, selective Ti-containing zeolites and clean oxidants (e.g. hydrogen peroxide) are applied at mild temperatures, ...
Strategieën van 'border management': de evolutie van de grenzen tussen de Habsburgse Nederlanden en de Verenigde Provincieën, 1580-1660 Strategies of border management: the evolution of the boundaries between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch KU Leuven
The dissertation ‘Lawful Limits. Border Management and the Formation of the Habsburg-Dutch Boundary, ca. 1590-1665’ examines the creation of the territorial separation between the early modern Netherlands. Focussing on the Eighty Years War and the first years after the end of this conflict, the research examines the manifold actors who contributed to the emergence of the Habsburg Dutch-Border. Numerous people and institutions, including ...
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. University of Antwerp
Tracking femtosecond laser induced interactions in materials via realtime Ion Beam Analysis KU Leuven
The response of heteromaterials (e.g. bilayers, embedded nanoparticles in a matrix, or metal/semiconductor junctions) to thermal activation has been the subject of scientific research for a long time. Typical approaches to supply thermal energy include classical annealing (close to thermal equilibrium) and laser annealing (with extremely fast heating and quenching rates, hence out of equilibrium). The latter technique often results in ...
Disentangling the sources and context of daily work stress: a comprehensive real-time modelling study using wearables and technological detections Ghent University
Occupational health research has generated a large body of evidence on psychosocial factors in the work environment that impact worker health. This knowledge on rather broad constructs however is not easily translatable into stress management approaches that are applicable in every-day working life. This project aims to set up an EMA (Ecological Momentary Assessment) measuring –within the natural working environment –subjects’ongoing and ...
Framing the minimum wage puzzle - estimating the effect of minimum wage policy on the real economy KU Leuven
In this dissertation, I attempt to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the effects of minimum wage policy in the United States, a web of federal, state, county and city level legislation. In Chapter 1 I show that the minimum wage is a political battleground and that there are major differences between places that increase it and those that do not. Once you factor in that conservative governments are less likely to increase the minimum wage, ...