UNIVERSITEIT GENT

Forschungsprojekte

• Digital twins for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and species comp…
• Black Hole Horizons in Quantum Gravity "The project ""Black Hole Horizons in Quantum Gravity"" aims for an in-depth investigation of black holes and…
• Modeling causes of language change and conservatism Universally, human language changes over time. One fundamental assumption about language change is that it or…
• Philology as Science in 19th-Century Europe Philology once defined what it meant to be scientific – and it may yet once again. Increasingly a broad array…
• Tracking epigenetic plasticity in circulating tumor-derived DNA to monitor drug resistance and guide personalized treatment in cancer patients Personalized therapy has revolutionized cancer care during the past decades, but still suffers from frequent…
• ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF URGENT MEASURES IN PROTECTING AT-RISK DETAINEES IN LATIN-AMERICA Urgent Measures (UMs) are granted by international human rights (HRs) bodies to protect persons in a situatio…
• Chip-scale Optical Atomic Clock Optical atomic clocks are at the heart of modern technology. From time-keeping to navigation to global positi…
• ModulatIng Cancer therapy RespOnse using Bacterial Extracellular nanovesicles Emerging evidence from cancer patients and mouse models indicates that gut bacteria affect response to immune…
• Transforming into a sustainable European pharmaceutical sector TransPharm two-track approach focusses on the one hand on the compounds itself by identifying greener and mor…
• Integration of Underutilized Ashes into Material Cycles by Industry-Urban Symbiosis The incineration of biomass, municipal solid waste and sewage sludge produces significant quantities of ashes…
• Precision Hearing Diagnostics and Augmented-hearing Technologies Cochlear synaptopathy (CS) is a recently discovered type of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) that compromise…
• Electrified conversion of plastic waste into olefins & downstream integration The overall objective of ELECTRO is to demonstrate a revolutionary technology concept that links the waste an…