Category: Energy & sustainability

Changing habits: a small step for each of us, a huge step for mankind.

Every small step we take as individuals helps but a real transition will require collective action at all levels. Research can help.

My focus of scientific research is the study, mainly the composition and chemistry, of the Mars and Venus atmosphere, using instruments onboard a satellite, in a very similar way (...)

I am working on the "other CO2" problem: ocean acidification. As a consequence on increasing carbon dioxide emissions, the ocean is getting more acidic. I am investigating the (...)

I have been working on issues of decolonization in literature for many years and I have realized that it goes hand in hand with degrowth/ethics of the limits. Today, I include (...)

As a biologist with strong interest in population dynamics and the ecology of infections, I am studying how environmental conditions such as weather and biodiversity affect population (...)

We need to train (schools and universities) the young generation with tools to tackle the challenges we are facing. Urgent structural & political radical change is needed.  

Concerns: Challenges regarding climate change, the right to food and food sovereignty are huge in Belgium. Since 1980 we have lost 68 % of our farms and the remaining farms are (...)

Main concerns: We see a rise in gynaecological cancer in (very) young patient that we cannot fully explain actually - we aslo see, in Belgium especially, a important rise in (...)

Everything has to change: behaviors, spiritual life, political engagement... From a systemic point of view too, we have to move towards a real ecological transition.