Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for business processes diagrams.

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

What are the flows of C&DW (e.g. bricks, concrete, gypsum and wood) in the case study countries ? How to define the specification for each material to be quantified? What indicators should be used to identify the pattern of each C&DW management system? How to interpret the MFA results in relation…

Description of Triple bottom line approach for risk-benefit analysis of genetically modified crops.

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotores: P.B.F. Ouwerkerk, M. Wang

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

This thesis investigates the application of deep learning techniques in image analysis across various domains, focusing on four main themes: feature extraction, classification, segmentation, and integration, demonstrating the transformative potential of these technologies.

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Fokelien Kootstra verdedigde haar proefschrift op 23 april 2019

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Dit artikel beoordeelt de Russische retoriek ten aanzien van Oekraïne door verklaringen van het Russische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken te analyseren.

This study seeks to analyse how job stress could be the result of performing administrative tasks

Hoe moet de EU omgaan met Oekraïne, Wit-Rusland en Moldavië? Hoe kunnen we de Europese Unie helpen om, in een uiterst moeilijke en veeleisende geopolitieke context, zijn politiek ten aanzien van deze landen te heroverwegen?

Aan KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk is er een voltijdse functie beschikbaar binnen de Onderzoekseenheid Geschiedenis van de Faculteit Letteren in het statuut van zelfstandig academisch personeel (tenure track) met een focus op de culturele geschiedenis van de middeleeuwen. De KU Leuven zoekt internationaal…

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Het Departement Architectuur (Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen, Campus Heverlee KU Leuven), zoekt kandidaten voor het project: “Verloren middeleeuwse forten in de Lage Landen ontsloten in 3D”. Het betreft een volledig gefinancierde doctoraatsbeurs in het veld van de architectuurgeschiedenis. Deadline…

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.

Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotor: Dr. Young Hae Choi

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Lezing

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

In dit artikel bestuderen de auteurs hoe individuele variabelen en variabelen op landelijk niveau op elkaar inwerken bij het beïnvloeden van politieke genderattitudes in Europa.

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Dr. Mathias Wouters heeft op 9 december 2021 een lezing gegeven over zijn promotieonderwerp platformarbeid aan internationale Erasmus-studenten en overige geïnteresseerden.

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers 2018 werd georganiseerd in Leiden.

Op 5 september 2019 verdedigde Jennifer Doekhie haar proefschrift 'Dimensions of desistance: A qualitative longitudinal analysis of different dimensions of the desistance process among long-term prisoners in the Netherlands'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Nieuwbeerta.

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

To conclude, this thesis provides valuable methodological insights to address data gaps and improve environmental impact assessments within the circular economy, with a particular focus on product reuse and sharing practices. Through empirical analysis and innovative approaches, it aims to support informed…

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

The Department of Architecture of KU Leuven is looking for two full-time PhD students (48 months) for the ERC-funded project "URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China before 1800", directed by Merlijn Hurx. Apply before: June 10

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

There is a need for alternative methods to replace, reduce and refine (3R) animal experimentation. Combining experimental data from high-throughput in vitro studies with in silico modeling is a promising approach to unravel the effect of chemicals on living cells and to gain a better understanding of…

Op 30 maart 2018 vond aan de KU Leuven onder leiding van Prof. Elise Muir en Prof. Nathan Cambien een workshop over het onderwerp “EU citizenship in times of Brexit” plaats.