In this project,will explore how to turn waste from cocoa production, specifically cocoa pod husks, into useful products. We will study different ways these husks can be used, such as turning them into a source of clean energy, a component for skincare products, or even as a supplement in animal feed. Our aim is to […]

Notre espèce, Homo sapiens, a de tout temps dû co-évoluer avec les changements climatiques et écologiques du territoire. Ces interactions ont pu influencer l’évolution biologique et culturelle des populations humaines. Pour autant, nos connaissances sur ces processus restent limitées par la nature même des données archéologiques disponibles et la difficulté de mettre en relation les […]

Reconstructing foodways can provide archaeologists insight into the relationship between past people and their lived environments. My project explores two innovative and complementary methods of biomolecular analysis – shotgun proteomics and lipid residue analysis – for the identification of foods eaten in the past. By identifying proteins and lipids from food cooked in Late Moche […]

While Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related software development is growing with different opportunities, ICT related energy consumption is also dramatically increasing. In the parallel of this growth, it is wanted to minimize the negative effects by encouraging equipment that is sustainably produced, lasts longer, wastes less energy, used in an efficient way and […]

Any new tool must match the sensitivity and ease of the best homogenous liquid sampling techniques. It must execute automated slurry capture, phase separation, and sample delivery without perturbing solute-solid equilibria. Our in-line slurry manipulation utilizes EasySampler™ slurry probe, capturing solids and liquids. The sample is delivered via a weak solvent to an inline filter […]

Wildfires continue to pose severe threats to ecological systems, communities, and economies worldwide. Early and accurate prediction of wildfire occurrences is crucial for effective preparedness and response strategies. This study investigates the application of machine learning methods to predict global wildfire events, utilizing the SeasFire Cubes dataset — a scientific datacube designed explicitly for seasonal […]

The proposed project will focus on the control of autonomous car, also known as a driverless car, which is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. The research platform is an electric car with four wheel independent control. The findings in this project can be used in either […]

The growing production of clean electricity from solar resources has led to employ molten salts as heat transfer fluids for thermal energy storage technologies. Thus, the study of thermodynamic and physicochemical properties of multi-component molten salts are critical factors for the design of such units. From one side, binary salt mixtures’ thermodynamic properties are already […]

The main objective of this research project is to contribute to construct a theory of urban land value, which accounts for the multiplicity of factors that affect the way land is valued in the city. To achieve the main objective, the different proposed theories of value will be compared from anthropology with contemporary theories about […]

Portland cement employed in conventional concretes is responsible for 5-7% of the world’s carbon dioxide. Alkali-activated binders appears as one of the promising alternative materials to substitute the use of Portland cement in concrete. Despite this, there are still technical obstacles to be overcome for industrial use. The main gaps include the production of alkali-activated […]

My project will investigate the status of wild seahorse populations in Southern Viet Nam to generate important information on both seahorse biology and seahorse fisheries. Seahorses are unique creatures that are vulnerable to habitat depletion, pollution, and, sadly, excessive fishing by humans. An estimated 20 million seahorses are traded annually for use in traditional medicine, […]

The determination of material properties often involves destructive techniques, such as the application of compression load cycles by losing the study material. In order to solve this problem in obtaining the stiffness properties of construction materials, it is necessary to develop new non-destructive (ND) methods of testing and interpretation of results, especially for viscoelastic materials. […]