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Smart and Sustainable Host UniverCities: leveraging city-university interactions to further the twin green and digital transition. KU Leuven

Ben Derudder
Public Governance Institute
SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the ...

Study of MgO thin films and heterostructures for CMOS applications KU Leuven

Jean-Pierre Locquet
Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Solid State Physics (QSP), Surface and Interface Engineered Materials
To continuously increase logic device performance, there is a strong interest to replace all the materials of the Si CMOS as well as to developnew device concepts. In this PhD project, alternative materials for thekey CMOS components will be investigated. This includes materials for the semiconducting channel, the gate oxide as well as the contacts. The main semiconductors of interest are novel Ge alloys as well as III/V compounds. Novel ...

Unequal placental sharing in monochorionic diamniotic twinpregnancies: an observational study on the prediction of placentalsharing and its impact on outcome KU Leuven

Liesbeth Lewi
Woman and Child
One in 5 twins share a single placenta and are thus monochorionic. In the shared placenta, blood vessels connect the blood circulations of both babies, which may lead to transfusion imbalances and make their well-being interrelated. If the single placenta is not equally divided between the twins, this may also result in large differences in size. Before birth, we currently cannot predict how well the placenta is divided between the twins, ...

Mechanical assessment of metals after gaseous hydrogenation. Ghent University

Kim Verbeken
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering

Hydrogen gas is currently considered as the best potential replacement for fossil fuels, during the ongoing energy transition. However, the interaction between hydrogen and metals results in unpredictable material failure. Via the requested technologically advanced equipment, the specific characteristics of this interaction can be analysed, both on a microstructural, as on a macroscopic level to evaluate the materialU+2019s mechanical ...

Surrogaatmodellen voor de studie van hartritmestoornissen KU Leuven

Hans Dierckx
Mathematics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

The research in my group is about the mathematical description (bio)electrical phenomena, with a focus on heart rhythm disorders. Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of death worldwide. As the mechanical contraction of heart is steered by electrical pulses, changes at the cellular level as well as geometrical and anatomical factors can lead to abnormal electrical patterns.

One part of our approach is numerical: using physics-based ...

Inter-individual variation in the physiological adaptations to hypoxia KU Leuven

Martine Thomis
Abdominal Transplantation, Physical Activity, Sports & Health Research Group, Exercise Physiology Research Group
This PhD research project aimed to explore some factors underlying the large inter-individual differences in physiological responses to hypoxia. Despite many investigations, assessment of hypoxic tolerance in healthy individuals is difficult and research fails to predict and differentiate well vs.</> poor responders. This PhD research partly answered this question by providing evidence of an individuals genetic potential to tolerate ...

ExperienceDNA: a digital online platform for faster and more immersive user testing Ghent University

Jelle Saldien
Department of Electronics and information systems, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design, Technology Transfer Office

The main goal of this project is to carry out a feasibility study to test the current concept of our ExperienceDNA platform with potential customers and to explore a feasible business plan. First, we will do a preliminary market assessment to map all stakeholders, business models and existing IP. We want to identify the potential customers and/or partners for our platform. Secondly, we are going to make our own IP strategy and licensing ...

Animated Spatial Time Machine Ghent University

Nico Van de Weghe
Department of Geography

The ability to travel through time fascinates people. Everyone has a good dream about what the past was like or what the future will look like. Timelines with text, 2D plans and photos from the past have long been a time machine at the back of the classroom for history lessons or online in recent decades. Rarely or never is a link provided in these applications with future development plans by policymakers, (landscape) architects, spatial ...

ExImmuOus: Mapping Exposure-Induced Immune Effects: Combining Exposomics And Immunomics. KU Leuven

Peter Hoet
Environment and Health

Immune-mediated non-communicable diseases are chronic disorders in which the immune system plays a pivotal role, such as autoimmune and allergic diseases(1).
Autoimmune diseases can be divided into at least 100 diseases or syndromes, of which some are organ-specific (e.g. autoimmune thyroid disease) and others are systemic (e.g. systemic sclerosis). Although taken separately these are rare diseases as a whole they affect 7.6–9.4% of the ...