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You try to exercise more. Eat more healthily. To stop smoking, perhaps? But if you have to do it on your own, it proves to be difficult. People living in the Kempen (Province of Antwerp, Belgium) now get an extra push thanks to the free online health platform BIBOPP, short for Citizens on the Move with Online Preventive Platform (Burgers in Beweging met Online PreventiePlatform). BIBOPP is a tool to improve your lifestyle and reduce your risk of disease. Based on a questionnaire (the Health Guide), you receive personal advice with an action plan full of activities in your neighbourhood. Moreover, you decide with whom you share your data: with your GP or for scientific research.
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Imagine that we could detect early warning signs in your body, even before symptoms of the disease occur. Imagine that we could prevent or reverse the development of chronic diseases. Imagine that personal prevention would be possible.
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Hi, my name is Alessia Pancaro and I am from Santa Maria Capua Vetere in Italy. Last March I started my PhD on the development of a biosensing platform for lectin detection related to cerebrovascular disease using nanoplasmonics in the unit Health. In the last period I have been overwhelmed by COVID-19, just like everyone else. It came suddenly, and we had to face several challenges. Within a few days we had to change our habits, adapt to the new situation and restore our balance.
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The word is out. We can now proudly announce that the project 'Towards a sustainable energy supply in cities' has been nominated as finalist for the REGIOSTARS awards 2021. The project is nominated in the category 'Green Europe', which highlights resilient communities in urban environments. The official winner of the award will be announced during an official award ceremony, scheduled on 2 December 2021.
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I shift between working on 500.000 euro quotes and making coffee.
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Sindy Sterckx works as a researcher in the Remote Sensing department. She calibrates camera sensors and processes images generated from space and from the air, including from the Belgian ‘microsatellite’ PROBA-V, balancing the technical side of her work with providing service to end-users. "I am familiar with both the algorithms behind the image processing and the various applications of remote sensing, such as monitoring vegetation or mapping water quality.
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Hi, I’m Bram, 28 years and passionate about IT, developing online platforms and discovering new technologies nonstop. It's not always easy to explain my job as IT system developer in the world of remote sensing isn’t always easy. Or is it?
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Inge Genné, Programme manager at VITO and a group of (internal) water technologists, made the internal switch from the Sustainable Chemistry Department to the Water Management & Technology Department (WMT) at the beginning of 2016. At the same time, the Flemish Knowledge Centre Water (Vlakwa) was also incorporated in VITO. "We monitor the Flemish water system under the VITO umbrella. We do this by listening to the needs of stakeholders and by accelerating innovation in the water domain based on an integrated approach. We are now seeing that Vlakwa and our water experts have a strong reputation."
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In 2017, Augusto Leite Pinto De Carvalho exchanged his homeland Brazil, the warm climate and ‘his’ ocean for ... Mol. Augusto followed his heart and followed his girlfriend, who at the time was completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the SCK-CEN nuclear research centre. In June 2018, he was given an internship at VITO’s ICT department by a VDAB company traineeship. He recently joined the company with a permanent contract. Augusto: “VITO is a particularly fascinating and instructive environment where researchers give the best of themselves every day to make the earth more sustainable. The difference starts with us.”
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Bio Engineer Arnout Standaert is a busy bee. Three children, playing the guitar, going to concerts whenever he can, kite surfing ... he knows exactly how to combine this with his job of data scientist at VITO. And he has recently managed to find a similar variety of things to do in his job. Since 2018, he works part-time at the MRG unit and part-time at the new Data Science Hub. An ideal situation, in his opinion. Thanks to the combination of jobs, he comes into contact with the many topics within VITO. Arnout: “I am constantly challenged to learn. Things get quite busy at times, but it is also very satisfying!”
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A bright blue sky - that’s when the Remote Sensing department is running at full speed. The summer is a busy time for the APEX team. APEX is a hyperspectral camera that takes images of different areas in Europe. Four colleagues are on standby throughout the summer to make sure all the flight campaigns run smoothly. Bart Bomans coordinates the measurements and draws up the flight plans together with all parties involved. Johan Mijnendonkx is one of the three APEX operators flying all over Europe to ensure that the required images are collected.
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Marianne Wens has been working in VITO’s HR department since the early years 2000. There she has seen first-hand how VITO’s evolution as an organisation has affected the day-to-day operations of the HR department and the effect this has had on the recruitment of new employees. “In the last few years, for example, there have been many more market-focused and commercial profiles,” says Wens. “Our international recruiting has also increased, and at the same time, we need data researchers, business developers, product developers and IT staff more than ever.”
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After her PhD in analytical chemistry, Martine Van Poppel joined VITO in 1999, in the former Vehicle Techniques team. The team’s mission: research on vehicle emissions and evaluation of clean technology, i.e. techniques which improve the air quality. Now, twenty years later, air quality is still up Martine’s alley, while the topic is hotter than ever.
“Prominently more attention has been paid to air quality in recent years. Over the past twenty years I have seen how measurement parameters and techniques have significantly evolved, which makes this topic more relevant than ever and also keeps it extremely interesting for me as a researcher”, says Martine.
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One day you find the job of your life. And that is certainly the case for Yuvraj Birdja. After completing his PhD research on electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 at Leiden University last year, he started looking for a job in his field of expertise. Research definitely had to be a part of it, although he was looking for a job where potential applications would also be developed. LinkedIn gave him what he was looking for: a job as a researcher at VITO.