Research Day

On June 7, 2023, UHasselt will organize its Research Day in the frame of highlighting all research areas of UHasselt. During this research day, we will also celebrate 50 years of UHasselt research.

The best poster wins the poster prize, worth €250.
Cast your vote here.  You can vote only once

Data for the future

• Lisa Koutsoviti Koumeri:  Can Automated Decision Making Be Fair? Measuring fairness in tabular data for classification problems
• Gert Janssenswillen: Understanding your processes through data with bupaR
• Manal Laghmouch: AI-Driven Process Anomaly Detection in Auditing
• Leen Jooken: Can AI improve human collaboration?
• Greg Van Houdt: Using data to discover a problem's real causes in business process executions
• Mieke Jans: Audit Analytics with a View
• Shameer Pradhan: Getting Your Data in Shape
• Information Management and Strategic Data Analysis Unit, OBI:
  • Research Data Management @UHasselt
  • Flemish Standard Data Management Plan
  • Metadata Repository @UHasselt
  • Fair Principles
• Aïcha Leroy: Data-driven logistics
• Ann Bessemans: Typographic Reading Research by means of Data-Driven Design
• Hamid Hamed: A data-driven model for State of health (SoH) prediction of lithium-ion batteries
• Marcel Parciak: A Comparative study of Measures for Approximate Functional Dependencies
• Sam Ottoy: Drone data collection and processing to inform ecosystem management and monitoring
• Danny Vanpoucke: DFT-based Vibrational Spectra for THz-Spectroscopy & Defect Fingerprinting in Molecular Crystals and Solids Teshome Deressa Selective reporting and statistical power in environmental science
• Teshome Deressa: Selective reporting and statistical power in environmental science
• Michael Petrov: Developments in quantum computing
• Marta Guidotti: Typographic Reading Research by means of Data-Driven Design

Designing a sustainable future

• Hervé Degée: Evaluation of existing bridges in view of sustainable maintenance procedures
• Sorin Pop: Mathematical and numerical challenges appearing in porous media
• Sarah Doumen: Design-based research to guide the implementation of a curriculum in science focused on a sustainable future
• Thomas De Lombaert: Logistics and well-being: utopia or opportunity?
• Kris Luyten:
• Tine Engelen: Mechanical performance of structural hybrid timber glass systems with integrated photovoltaïcs
• Brian Fowler:
• Nattapol Srettiwat: Techno-Economic analysis and environmental life-cycle analysis for green H2 via solar-driven water splitting
• Buntinx Mieke:
• Talieh Rajabloo: Industrial decarbonization
• Talieh Rajabloo: Potential of petro-/chemical sectors for industrial decarbonization
• Glenn van Vugt: Hybrid testing of non-conventional steel-concrete and timber structures
• Rajarshi Das: ​Innovative solutions in Structural Engineering
• Aslihan Babayigit: Compositional Engineering of Narrow Gap Photovoltaic Perovskites for Tandem Photovoltaics
• Vaes Merel: The STEMOOV model to connect STEM and sustainability in secondary education
• Jonas Mercken: Mastering electrolyte properties and compatibility: organically modified ionogels for sodium-ion batteries'
• Naomi Billiet: MoS2 as electrocatalyst for HER
• Ulrique Vounckx: Carbonized Mesoporous Organosilica Sulfur Composites for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
• An-Sofie Kelchtermans: Polymeric backbone eutectogel electrolyte: Preparation of a composite positive electrode for high-energy density lithium-ion batteries
• Boo Carmans: Novel methodology for Quantum State Tomography to assess high-fidelity NV diamond nuclear spin gates
• Chris Vanheusden: Exploration of processing routes for polyhydroxyalkanoates and their ZnO nanocomposites
• Sumit Maharjan: Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): Conversion Pathways and Supply Chain
• Nele Debusschere: Chemical solution synthesis of Cu-Fe photocathode materials for photoelectrochemical CO2 conversion
• Raheed Bolia: Sulfide Solid-State Electrolytes
• Gasper Kabendela: Plot Boundary Conflict Resolution in Informal Settlements: The Role of Community Leaders
• Manyama Majogoro: Land Use Conflicts and conflict mediation in planned urban settlement: A case of Sinza, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Wim Kuypers, Martijn Bollen: Living in harmony with nature: Towards a better understanding of human-wildlife interactions in protected areas

Health and quality of life

• Niels Martin: Supporting the evidence-based improvement of healthcare processes
• Gerard van Hulzen: Supporting Healthcare Managers in Making Effective Capacity Management Decisions: A Data-Driven Approach
• Robin Clerckx: Offshoring and the Mental Health of Onshore Employees
• Sofie Van Wesemael: Are pain-related psychological variables associated with postural control in individuals with low back pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Elke Heremans: Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences: REVAL Research, Technologies & Services
• Sim Klaps: Breathe-(h)it trial: high intensity training to improve diaphragm functioning in persons with chronic nonspecific low back pain: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
• Abner Sergooris: Clinical phenotypes and prognostic factors in persons with hip osteoarthritis undergoing total hip arthroplasty
• Nina Goossens: The role of proprioceptive deficits, psychosocial factors and inflammation in pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain
• Nina Goossens: Back-to-Back: The forgotten role of back muscle characteristics to tailor exercise therapy for recurrent non-specific low back pain
• Sibren Haesen: The cardioprotective effect of pyridoxamine during doxorubicin chemotherapy: focus on mitochondria and inflammation
• Esther Wolfs: Dental pulp stem cells-mediated suicide gene therapy for head and neck cancer
• Silia Mertens: Integrated decision-making in hospital supply chains
• Brigitte Reniers: Medical Dosimetry
• Annick Timmermans: The Catt trial: cost-effectiveness of a mobile application for tinnitus treatment
• Monika Rai: Stretchable electronics technology for smart patch and wearables
• Sara Demoen: Health-related quality of life in chronic subjective tinnitus patients: a scoping review
• Sevda Ece Kizilkilic
• Lisa Schuetz: Exploring a cellular link between obesity and neuroinflammation: Th17 cells
• Ellen Pipers: Person centricity: Where healthcare meets marketing
• Ine Nieste: Persons with Multiple Sclerosis change their non-exercise physical activity during a structured exercise intervention
• Brent Peters: The Impact of Stress Interventions on Driving Behaviour of Occupational Drivers in Flanders: an Overview
• Mathijs Meert: Smart Transfection: In-Flow Electroporation with Self-Learning Capabilities Using Integrated Impedance Cytometry Modalities
• Melanie Loix: The good, the fat, and the ugly: Targeting lipid overload to boost central nervous system repair
• Annelies Bronckaers: Research@ LISSA group 
• Katondo Salvatory Nambiza: The Use of Behavioral Change Techniques (BCTs) to Improve Traffic Safety of Motorcyclists in Developing Countries
• Sien Vaes: The Impact of Healthcare Technologies on Patient Well-being
• Sarah D'Haese: Moderate- and high-intensity endurance training are equally effective to prevent diabetes induced adverse cardiac remodelling and dysfunction in rats
• Yannick Stulens: Use of DNA thermodynamics for low-abundance mutation detection by DNA hybridization
• Sam Vanherle: Extracellular vesicle-associated cholesterol dictates the benign and harmful functions of macrophages in the damaged CNS
• Brittany Mueller: Molecular beacon-based nanostructures for selective detection of folded and low-abundance variants
• Wout Laeremans: Non-local elasticity of DNA in coarse-grained models
• Serina Rubio: The MIF/CD74 system as a driver of pro-inflammatory B cell functions and secondary injury following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)
• Wouter Franssen
• Karen Libberecht: Altered lysosomal presence and activity in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A
• Hanne Jeurissen: Exploring PMP22 protein aggregation and ER stress in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A
• Alessio Cardilli: Dietary alterations in gut microbiota impact anti-tumor immunity towards novel strategies to boost cancer immunotherapy
• Ibrahim Hamad: The Charcot-Leyden Crystal protein Galectin-10 is not a major determinant of human FOXP3+ regulatory T cell function
• Nuran Caz: ROS-responsive dextran nanocarriers as a new drug delivery system for head and neck cancer.
• Anitha Ethirajan: Functional healthcare materials: from design to applications 
• Nathalie Dirkx: Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells as a novel in vitro model for Charcot Marie Tooth disease type 1A
• Jonas Verbrugghe: Exercise intensity matters in chronic nonspecific low back pain rehabilitation
• Lien Beckers: Characterisation of the innate and adaptive immune system after ocrelizumab treatment in multiple sclerosis
• Melese Sinaga Teshome
• Ken Princen: REVERSIGEL: REVERSIbly crosslinked hydroGELs for effective cardiac stem cell delivery
• Nele Vanbilsen: Auditory-motor coupling: a task-oriented training approach
• Leonardo Angeli: Unravelling Age-Specific COVID-19 Transmission in Belgium: Insights from Longitudinal Sensitivity Analysis
• Eva Severens: How can older people feel at home when it's not their own?
• Maud van den Bogaart: Markerless versus marker-based movement analysis
• Koen Kuipers :Schwann cell membrane composition, dynamics and interactions with the extracellular matrix in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

Society and economy

• Titi Iswari: Collaboration in urban freight transport
• Rosaly Severijns: Veggie Challenge: a 30-day app-based individual vs team randomized controlled trial to reduce animal product consumption
• Alessandro Martulli: Beyond silicon: thin-film tandem as an opportunity for photovoltaics supply chain diversification and faster power system decarbonization out to 2050
• Raf Menten: Adaptable Multimodal User Interfaces for Digital Assistance
• Steven Moonen: CAD2Render: A Modular Toolkit for GPU-accelerated Photorealistic Synthetic Data Generation for the Manufacturing Industry
• Koen Van Laer: Towards workplace inclusion & sustainable work for all
• Girma Sitot: Pedestrian Child, road safety training, using simulated virtual environment in Ethiopia
• Dan Luo: Traditional vs immersive art exhibitions: multisensory cues effect on visitor satisfaction via sensory intensity, visitor attention, and visitor experience