Projects
Temperament and parenting as predictors of psychosocial development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. Ghent University
This project addresses the predictive value of the temperament-parenting interplay, vitally crucial for all children, to explain the wide range of variability in both maladaptive and adaptive development of youngsters with special needs. Using a three-wave prospective cohort design, transdiagnostic generalizability of processes is tested in and across three neurodevelopmental disabilities (Autism, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy) relative to ...
Making a home away from home: Asylum seekers' gendered experiences of place-making in Cape Town, South Africa. Hasselt University
The Aspects of Community-Based Approach towards Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings, as a catalyst for Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Heritage Buildings in the Historic Town of Bagamoyo. Hasselt University
From dawn till dusk: synthetic granule development for tailor-made microbial community engineering Ghent University
Microbial communities play a crucial role in bioprocesses aimed at bioenergy recovery, bioproduction and nutrient recovery. Current monitoring focuses mainly on compositional analyses, which do not consider 3-dimensional microbial organisation. Hence, a novel approach for direct microbial community engineering is essential to explore opportunities in the bio-based economy. This project aims to acquire and apply fundamental insights in ...
Development of an integrated decision support tool for managing dairy cows using a data and biology accommodating approach KU Leuven
With more than 170 million tons of milk produced by dairy cows in 2017, the dairy sector was the second most important agricultural sector of the EU. It is, however, not exempt from emerging disruption as it faces a confluence of challenges such as the rapidly increasing global demand for dairy products, the volatility of global dairy markets and the growing concern over the impact of ruminant production on climate change, water quality and ...
Understanding socio-affective development in prematurely born preschool children by assessing multimodal biobehavioral socio-communicative attunement among child-mother dyads KU Leuven
Polarization and early development of zygotes in the brown alga Dictyota dichotoma (Phaeophyceae) Ghent University
For more than a century the oogamous fucoid brown algae serve as practical models for the research on embryogenesis in plants. Morphological observations in Dictyota dichotoma suggest that mere extrapolations of all findings to other oogamous brown algae is inappropriate. To obtain better insights in the validity of extrapolations from these research models, embryogenesis in Dictyota dichotoma will be investigated.
Medieval urban toponymy in the duchy of Brabant, a mirror of urban development? Ghent University
This research focuses on medieval town development within the former duchty of Brabant. Surprisingly often, identical toponyms appeared in medieval towns. It is my ambition to explain this intriguing phenomenon and to gain new insight in medieval town development and the multiple uses of public space.