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 University College Ghent.Main activiteis:- Knowledge diffusion (Blikopener)- Building bridges between organisations (workfield) and… Show more 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 University College Ghent.Main activiteis:- Knowledge diffusion (Blikopener)- Building bridges between organisations (workfield) and expertise within and outside the Artevelde University College - Contribute to the development of an impact strategy- Give support in dissemination activities Show less

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 behaviour in children, adolescents and their parents.Main activities:• 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 will be measured to study determinants of eating behaviour in children, adolescents and their parents.Main activities:• Obtaining Ethics approval• Preparing study protocol• Contact person for coordinating centre and other survey centres• Organising and coordinating fieldworkTeaching activities:• Teaching part of the course “Basic Concepts in Public Health and Epidemiology” as part of the Master of Environmental Sanitation• Supervising master thesis students Show less

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 report which consists of a set of 10 papers that will be published in one issue of Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (Impact factor 4.789).Main activities:• 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) where I was mainly responsible for the management and coordination of EURRECA’s final report which consists of a set of 10 papers that will be published in one issue of Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (Impact factor 4.789).Main activities:• 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• Timely submission of all papers to journal Show less

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• Preparing (public) reports• Organising and chairing… Show more 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• Preparing (public) reports• Organising and chairing Scientific Committee meetings and preparing reports of those meetings• Presentations (oral and poster) for clients (participating centres) and at international meetings• Working according to the ISO 9001:2008 quality system Show less

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 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, western blotting)• Statistical analyses• Report study resultsTeaching activities:• Supervising undergraduate and PhD students Show less

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• Report study results • Writing peer-reviewed… Show more 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• Report study results • Writing peer-reviewed articlesTeaching activities:• Problem-Based Learning: Tutor of different tutorial groups within the specialisation ‘Nutrition and Metabolism’ of the Health Sciences educational programme• Guiding practical trainings and correcting reports Show less