Laura Archives - Biomechanics Research Unit

Our group participated in the KU Leuven University trail 2024

The KU Leuven University trail 2024, a sport event in which staff members gather together in teams to walk or run, took place last Thursday 12 September. Following the trend of previous editions, some researchers of our group participated, together with other colleagues – and it was fun! In this edition, Sophie N. ran in the 10[...]

Laura was finalist for the Best VPHi Student Award 2024

Laura Lafuente-Gracia was selected as one of the four finalists for the Best VPHi Student Award at the VPH Conference 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany, held from September 4-6, 2024. Although she did not win the award, she did an outstanding job. This is the second time Laura has been named a finalist, having also been[...]

VPH 2024: Several team members will present their research

Luiz Ladeira, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Majid Nazemi, Sophie Nguyen and Bernard Staumont will present their research at the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Conference (https://vph-conference.org/). As executive director of the VPH Institute, Liesbet Geris will also attend the conference. The conference will take place in Stuttgart, Germany from 4 to 6 September 2024. The titles of the presentations are: Luiz Ladeira[...]

Our group participated in the 2024 MECH Research Day of KU Leuven

The second edition of the MECH Research Day of KU Leuven took place last Friday, 31st May 2024. During this event, researchers from the Mechanical Engineering department showcased their work through posters and lab visits. Our team contributed with a group poster, in which the projects of Satanik, Edoardo, Laura, Sophie N., Pieter, Fernando and Oriana connect[...]

ESBiomech2023: Lies, Claire, Fernando, Satanik, Laura and Edoardo will present

Next week, the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB 2023) will take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 9 to 12 July 2023. Liesbet Geris is one of the four congress chairs; therefore, our group is among the organizers this time. Some team members will present their research: Claire Villette: “Osteoinductive scaffold[...]

Laura won the Best flash talk award at the byteMAL conference 2023

Laura Lafuente-Gracia gave a flash talk at the byteMAL conference 2023, with which she won the Best flash talk award. The conference took place in Aachen, Germany on 23 May 2023. She presented her bone regeneration model applied to the investigation of large craniofacial defects. You can see the slides of the flash talk here,[...]

Laura and Tim will present at the byteMAL conference 2023

Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Tim Herpelinck will present their work at the byteMAL conference 2023, which takes place in Aachen, Germany on 23 May 2023. Laura will present her poster “Modelling bone regeneration in craniofacial bone defects”, and has also been selected to give a flash talk. In his poster, Tim will present his work about the[...]

Laura, Pieter and Edoardo will attend a BIRS workshop about “Sex Differences in Physiology”

Laura Lafuente, Pieter Ansoms and Edoardo Borgiani will attend the workshop “Sex Differences in Physiology: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis” organized by the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery. The workshop takes places from 5 to 10 March 2023 in Banff (Alberta, Canada). More info about the workshop can be found here.[...]

Our group participated in the KU Leuven University trail 2022 that took place last Thursday 15 September – and it was very fun! The university trail is a sport event by KU Leuven in which staff members gather together in teams to walk or run. This time, the most popular category within our team members was[...]

Sophie Bekisz and Laura Lafuente-Gracia will present their research at the 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB, https://ecmtb2022.org/). The conference will take place in Heidelberg (Germany) from 19 to 23 September 2022. Both Sophie and Laura will present a poster at the conference. The corresponding titles are: Sophie: “An agent-based model to investigate the role of[...]