Our community includes groups active in the field of ICT, bioscience engineering, economics, law, buildings, electromechanics, materials, thermal engineering, … .
Research groups
ELECTRICAL
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
The research areas of EELAB are low frequency electromagnetic fields and magnetic materials, power systems, power electronics, drive systems and control for electrical machines and energy and cluster management.
Electrical Energy Laboratory | EELAB
Department of Electronics & Information Systems
This research group focuses on measuring, analysing and modelling of thin film solar cells. The group is also active in the field of switchable smart windows based on liquid crystals, ranging from technology to device physics and numerical modelling.
Liquid Crystals & Photonics Group
Johan Lauwaert
BUILDING & INFRASTRUCTURE
Department of Architecture & Urban Planning
Research is contributing to the development of knowledge about sustainable, durable and energy-efficient buildings with a healthy and comfortable indoor climate. Heat and moisture transfer in buildings and building components is tested, studied and modelled. Furthermore, the performance of buildings and building services is analysed and optimised using simulations and measurements.
Building Physics, Construction & Climate Control
Department of Civil Engineering
The main fields of expertise of the coastal engineering research group are: the design, construction and monitoring of coastal structures (mainly breakwaters and sea dikes), the experimental and numerical modeling of wave propagation and interaction with coastal structures, the development and usage of instruments for field measurements and renewable (wave, tide, offshore wind) energy conversion.
Coastal Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
The mission of the Maritime Technology Division is to provide an academic education regarding the design, construction, propulsion, functioning and maintaining of marine structures as ships and offshore constructions; to perform fundamental and applied scientific research in the maritime field, especially regarding the hydrodynamics of vessels and other floating constructions; and to carry out scientific studies for and in collaboration with enterprises and public services in the maritime field.
Maritime Technology
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
Soete Laboratory pushes the boundaries in fracture mechanics and tribology. Their researchers are active in both experimental and numerical research on fatigue, fracture, friction, wear, reliability and durability of machine parts and mechanical constructions
Mechanical Constructions | Soete Laboratory
THERMAL
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
The research group specializes in thermodynamics and heat transfer doing experimental and numerical research. It offers moreover support to industry, by advising companies in need of advice on problems in thermal engineering.
Applied thermodynamics and heat transfer
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
Transport Technology is specialized in internal combustion engines. The group's research is focused on the in-cylinder processes (spray formation, combustion, heat transfer and emission formation). The goal is to develop simulation tools for fast engine optimization.
Transport Technology
BIOSCIENCE
Department of Green Chemistry and Technology
The research group Sustainable Systems Engineering (STEN) aims at designing and evaluating systems in a sustainable context, relying on engineering principles. Products, processes, supply chains and production and consumption patterns are studied with a focus on resources (i.e. resource footprint and resource efficiency), a lifecycle thinking approach, e.g. operationalized through MFA and LCA and thermodynamic principles, relying on second law: exergy and exergetic life cycle analysis.
Sustainable Systems Engineering
DATA
Department of Information Technology
IDLab performs fundamental and applied research on internet technology and data science. Major research areas are machine learning and data mining; semantic intelligence; distributed intelligence for IoT; cloud and big data infrastructures; multimedia processing; wireless and fixed networking; electromagnetics, RF and high-speed circuits and systems. Specific energy related research mainly pertains to data analysis and machine learning for smart grids. Also the internet-of-things research in the frame of smart cities is highly relevant in this context.
IDLab | Internet Technology & Data Science Lab
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
Members of this group have research interests in various areas of stability and stabilisation, optimization of dynamical systems, modeling and regulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems, machine learning, data mining, evolutionary optimization, synchronisation of oscillators, Control of discrete event systems, feedback control for on-line management of networks and Imprecise probabilities as knowledge representations.
Dynamic Systems and Controls
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
The Fluid Mechanics team specializes in numerical simulation of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational solid mechanics (CSM). We develop quasi-Newton algorithms for partitioned simulation of FSI and apply them in various fields such as flow-induced vibration (FIV) of tube bundles, compressible flows in air jet looms and nozzles, atmospheric flows around wind turbines and airborne wind energy systems.
Fluid Mechanics
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and
Metal Engineering
The following data-related research is conducted in the Dynamic Design Lab: automation and control systems; kinematics and dynamics; physical system modelling; sensing, estimation and actuating; signals and systems; automation, feedback control and robotics; system theory, modelling and identification.
Dynamic Design Lab | D2Lab
SOCIAL
Department of Communication Sciences
CEPEC examines the effectiveness of persuasive communication, both in a profit and non-profit context. Next to our work in sustainable consumption and green energy, our research also entails digital marketing, advertising literacy, children and consumer socialization, media multitasking, influencer marketing, risk and crisis communication, behavioral change, personalized advertising, consumption and subjective well-being
Center for Persuasive Communication | CEPEC
Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design
The research group has the mission to empower people in a digitizing society. The group gains insights in human behaviour by developing new methods, conceptual approaches and future technologies, inspiring people, organisations and policymakers to create a more sustainable society. We study the interactions between people, society and technology by leveraging on state-of-the art methodological innovation to grasp the attitudinal, behavioral as well as cognitive dimensions of the 'homo digitalis'.
Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies | MICT
ECONOMICS
Department of General Economics
The research focus is on energy and climate economics; economics of climate policy, the energy transition & energy markets (with a focus on electricity markets). We opt for a multidimensional approach. In our economic analysis of environmental issues, we integrate technological assessments, law & economics, institutional dynamics as well as economics of innovation.
Environmental Economics & Management
POLITICAL
LEGAL
Department of European, public & international law
The Centre for Environmental and Energy Law is the research group that conducts research about environmental law and energy law. It is situated within the Department of European, Public and International Law of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. The group's research includes fundamental (PhD) and applied (policy oriented) legal and policy research, and multidisciplinary research.
