Mandy Claessens Email & Phone Number

Ghent, BE

Ghent

Involved in the knowledge trasfer project "Blikopener" where I have a coördinating role. Furhtermore, I make the bridge between issues in the field and available in-house expertise to handle these issues or to use as input for finetuning research programmes with as final goal to maximise the (societal and economical) impact of research at Artevelde.

Ghent

• Involved in a FP7 EC-funded project “I.Family” where I am responsible for the coordination of the fieldwork in which approximately 1500 children and 750 parents will be measured to study determinants of eating.
• Obtaining Ethics approval
• Preparing study protocol
• Contact person for coordinating centre and other survey centres
• Organising and coordinating fieldworkTeaching… Show more Involved in a FP7 EC-funded project “I.Family” where I am responsible for the coordination of the fieldwork in which approximately 1500 children and 750 parents.
• Organising and coordinating fieldworkTeaching activities:

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Involved in the coordination of the FP6 EC-funded Network of Excellence EURRECA (EURopean micronutrient RECcomendatons Aligned) where I was mainly responsible for the management and coordination of EURRECA’s final.
• Preparing planning for all papers and making sure that partners respect all… Show more Involved in the coordination of the FP6 EC-funded Network of Excellence EURRECA (EURopean micronutrient RECcomendatons Aligned).
• Preparing planning for all papers and making sure that partners respect all deadlines
• Communication with authors and co-authors for delivering parts of articles in time
• Coordinating and managing + manuscript preparation by different partners
• Reviewing different parts of papers and aligning parts written by different partners

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Involved in projects that study quality of care in recognised diabetic foot clinics and in neuromuscular reference centres.Main activities
• Writing study protocols and other study related documents
• Coordinating data collections + communication concerning data collections
• Follow-up of data collection
• Data cleaning and statistical analyses
• Preparing benchmarking reports for participating centres

Dublin, Ireland

• Involved in research studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the protection against obesity-induced insulin resistance in IL-1RI knockout mice.Main activities
• Writing research proposals, proposals for Medical Ethical Committee approval (for animal studies) and standard operating procedures
• Setting-up, planning and coordinating animal feeding experiments
• Performing biochemical analyses on acquired samples (e.g. ELISA, protein, RNA and DNA isolation, real-time PRC… Show more Involved in research studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the protection against.
• Performing biochemical analyses on acquired samples (e.g. ELISA, protein, RNA and DNA isolation, real-time PRC, western blotting)
• Statistical analyses

• Performing human intervention studies Main activities
• Writing research proposals (for human intervention studies) for Medical Ethical Committee approval and standard operating procedures
• Setting-up, planning and coordinating human intervention studies
• Performing biochemical analyses on acquired samples (e.g. Radioimmunoassays)
• Statistical analyses
• Reasoning about acquired study results

Phd, Human Nutrition

Master, Molecular Medical Biotechnology

Msc, Biological Health Science

Practical training done at the University of Kuopio, Finland