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Research Showcase
A Showcase of the breadth of innovation and research being conducted with the help of our infrastructure, and across all disciplines.


Increased moist-heat exposure caused by irrigation expansion
Irrigation cools land but increases moist-heat stress. Study reveals hidden risks using global models and VSC supercomputing.
1 day ago3 min read

Fuzzy Band Structure of Quantum Dots via Bloch Orbital Expansion: Linking Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Physics Through HPC
By: Zeger Hens, Jordi Llusar, and Ivan Infante Electrons in extended semiconductor crystals behave as waves, free to travel in all...
Mar 173 min read


Single-cell transcriptome atlas of male mouse pituitary across postnatal life highlighting its stem cell landscape
By: Silke De Vriendt, Emma Laporte, Berkehür Abaylı, Julie Hoekx, Florian Hermans, Diether Lambrechts, and Hugo Vankelecom The pituitary...
Mar 42 min read


Supporting novel drug discovery via cosolvent molecular dynamics
By: Olivier Beyens, Sam Corthaut, Sarah Peeters, Pieter Van Der Veken, Ingrid De Meester, Hans De Winter Drug discovery involves...
Feb 42 min read


Accelerating Medical Innovation: How VSC Supercomputers Are Helping Diagnose Rare Disorders
High-performance computing (HPC) has long been a cornerstone of scientific discovery, and its impact on medicine continues to grow. At...
Jan 212 min read


Accelerating Rare Disease Diagnosis: A Breakthrough with VSC Computational Power
Researchers from the Center for Human Genetics (CME) in Leuven have unveiled a revolutionary diagnostic method that combines genetic and...
Jan 162 min read


Burned Area Increasingly Explained by Climate Change
By: Chantelle Burton, Seppe Lampe, Douglas I. Kelley, Wim Thiery, Stijn Hantson, Nikos Christidis, Lukas Gudmundsson, Matthew Forrest,...
Dec 10, 20245 min read


Borophane: The Hydrogen-Boosted Superconductor
By: Božidar N. Šoškić, Jonas Bekaert, Cem Sevik, and Milorad V. Milošević Imagine an atomically thin material capable of conducting...
Dec 2, 20242 min read


Detecting imagined speech events from brain signals
By: Aurélie de Borman, Benjamin Wittevrongel, Ine Dauwe, Evelien Carrette, Alfred Meurs, Dirk Van Roost, Paul Boon & Marc M. Van Hulle...
Nov 20, 20243 min read


Stable Boundary Layers with Subsidence: Scaling and Similarity of the Steady State
By: Thijs Bon, Raúl Bayoán Cal & Johan Meyers One of the key challenges in atmospheric and environmental sciences is understanding of the...
Oct 21, 20243 min read
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