Nicolas Baeyens (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) is a visual artist who explores the identity and cyclic transformability of artworks. He questions the material nature of an artwork by looking at it as a falsifiable carrier of an immaterial message that is being shaped and reshaped by the memory of the beholder.
Laura Vandenbosch (KU Leuven) studies the dynamics of media socialization in the well-being of adolescents. Using an interdisciplinary perspective and a wide range of research methods she attempts to understand how entertainment and social media content influence young people in the area of depression symptoms, choice of study, body image, and performance pressure.
Caroline Masquillier (UAntwerpen) studies the HIV epidemic in South Africa and Belgium from a sociological perspective. For example, she analyzed how community-based support may contribute to the care for people living with HIV. She founded the platform for creative scientific communication FIELD, where she worked on an exhibition and documentary about her research.
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Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke (UGent and VIB) studies how the communication between body and brain takes place under healthy circumstances and in cases of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, with the aim of identifying new strategies for treatment. Based on her knowledge of the blood-brain barrier she and her team study new methods for bringing drugs into the brain more efficiently.
Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven) is an historian of medi cine and science who studies how knowledge is arrived at and how it is disseminated. Who had access to knowledge in the past? How did scientists deal with each other’s work? With his historical view of the culture of publication and the relationship between religion, ideology, and science, he reflects on today’s scientific endeavours.
