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Faculty Research & Creative Activity in Belgium
Deji Akinwande
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Deji Akinwande's research focuses on 2D materials and nanotechnology, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. This manifests as translational nanotechnology from materials to devices to circuits, blurring the boundaries between chemistry, electronics, physics, materials science and mechanics.
Richard Albert
Government, Law
Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.
Donnie Ray Albert
Music Performance
Donnie Ray Albert is a regular guest of opera companies and symphony orchestras globally.
Jean Barrera
Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Jean Barrera is a working musician who also teaches the music and history of Conjunto music. He has performed around the world and is the innovator of the first National Reso-phonic Bajo Sexto.
Tasha Beretvas
Educational Psychology
Tasha Beretvas' research is on statistical models with a focus on deriving and evaluating multilevel model extensions and meta-analysis models for educational, behavioral, social and medical science data.
Carl Blyth
French and Italian
Carl Blyth is an applied linguist with a background in interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics and technology. His research lies at the intersection of language, culture and interaction, with a focal interest in L2 pragmatics.
Hans Boas
Germanic Studies, Linguistics, Linguistics Research Center
Hans C. Boas' main research revolves around the relationship between syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and the structure of the lexicon, which he approaches from a contrastive perspective (English/German). The theoretical frameworks he works with are primarily Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics with a strong bias towards corpus-based research methods.
Pascale Bos
Germanic Studies
Pascale Bos' research focuses on Holocaust and Genocide Studies with a special emphasis on gender and memory, sexual violence and war, and the after effects of trauma and wartime violence. Bos is also interested in the study of autobiography as well as modern Dutch and Jewish literature & culture.
Stephen Courter
Management
Stephen Courter's areas of interest include corporate diversification, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, and venture capital.
Yvon Delville
Psychology
Yvon Delville's research is focused on various aspects of behavioral neuroendocrinology. Delville is particularly interested in the role of social stress on the development of aggression during puberty, and in individual differences in stress responsiveness associated with differences in social behavior.
Brian Evans
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brian Evans' research and teaching interests are in the processing of signals to increase connection speeds and reliability in communication systems and improve visual quality of video and still images. His research group develops signal processing theory and algorithms with implementation constraints in mind, and translates algorithms into design methods and embedded prototypes.
Bertram Gawronski
Psychology
Bertram Gawronski’s research aims to understand social judgments and social behavior by identifying their underlying mental processes. His interests include moral judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, and effects of misinformation. In addition to these major themes, he is interested in basic questions of psychological measurement and meta-theoretical issues in the construction and evaluation of psychological theories.
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima
Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.
Robbe Goris
Psychology
Robbe Goris’ research seeks to uncover the neural basis of visual capabilities, using behavioral experiments, computational theory, and electrophysiology to study representation and computation in the primate visual system. Project interests include the neural representation of sensory uncertainty, and on the relation between natural image statistics and cascaded computation in the visual cortex.
Loukas Kallivokas
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Loukas Kallivokas' research focuses on computational mechanics, inverse problems, wave mechanics, metamaterials, earthquake and geotechnical engineering, numerical methods, and large-scale computational modeling.
Alan Kuperman
Public Affairs
Alan Kuperman's research focuses on ethnic conflict, peaceful conflict management, military intervention, national security, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Sophie Lalande
Kinesiology and Health Education
Sophie Lalande studies the limiting factors to exercise capacity in healthy individuals and clinical populations.
Bradley Love
Psychology
Bradley Love’s research centers around human learning and decision making. His work involves behavioral experiments and formal modeling approaches.
Vijay Mahajan
Marketing
Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.
Michael Mosser
Government
Michael Mosser’s research focuses on conceptualizing the European Union as a catalyst in European security. He has written in the fields of military art and science and military sociology, and he teaches courses in European and international security, European environmental policy, comparative and European politics, international organizations, and foreign policy analysis.
Roger Myers
Music
Roger Myers has traveled widely presenting critically acclaimed concerts and master classes in countries on four continents including Austria, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico.
Zoltan Nagy
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Zoltan Nagy's research interests are in smart buildings and cities, renewable energy systems, control systems for zero emission building operation, machine learning and artificial intelligence for the built environment, complex fenestration systems, and the influence of building occupants on energy performance.
Nicholas Peppas
Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine
Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.
Robert Peroni
Law
Robert Peroni specializes in corporate tax, federal income taxation, international tax, natural resource taxation, and professional responsibility/legal ethics. He is an expert in international taxation and in energy taxation.
Lorinc Redei
Public Affairs
Lorinc Redei is an expert on European politics, European Union, especially its foreign and security policy, the role of the European Parliament, and in parliamentary diplomacy.
Linda Reichl
Physics
Linda Reichl's work is focused on superfluid transport theory, quantum control, quantum scattering theory, and the theory of open quantum systems, with applications to nanometer scale systems and molecular scattering processes.
Thorsten Ries
Germanic Studies
Thorsten Ries is a specialist in German literature from the 18th- to the 21st-century. His primary research focus is the foreign language curriculum in the context of digital humanities, (digital) scholarly editing, born-digital archives and digital forensics.
David Schnyer
Psychology
David Schnyer's research is focused on the cognitive neuroscience of mental processes, particularly, the neural structures and computational algorithms that contribute to non-declarative memory, associative memory, metamemory and attention/cognitive control.
Carolyn Seepersad
Mechanical Engineering
Carolyn Seepersad’s research involves the development of methods and computational tools for engineering design and additive manufacturing. Her research interests include simulation-based design of complex systems and materials, design for additive manufacturing, innovation, and environmentally conscious design of products and energy systems.
Jeffrey Smith
Art and Art History
Jeffrey Smith specializes in the art and architecture of Northern Europe, especially Germany and the Netherlands, between 1400-1700. He has written on Albrecht Dürer, German sculpture, goldsmith work, Jesuits, Northern Renaissance art and issues of historiography, among other topics.
Philip Varghese
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Philip Varghese’s research focuses on understanding the basic molecular processes occurring in non-equilibrium flows. Requiring an interdisciplinary synthesis of physics and chemistry with fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics, his work is applied to the study of hypersonic and rarefied flows, plasmas, and combustion.