KU Leuven

The IRHT, which stands for the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes.

I was working on Targum/em there in conjunction with a, an ERC program, project, excuse me, at KU Leuven in Belgium.

And I'm currently on a postdoc called Midrash.

It's another ERC project.

I'm Martijn Graat and this is Does Logistics Matter, a podcast about trends and innovations in supply chain and logistics.

Answering yes to the question today are Bart de Muynck, industry expert and conference chair at Change, and Jan de Kimpe, supply chain professor at Leuven University and consultant at Logisol Pro.

In this episode, we talk about the talent shortage and the evolution of the workforce.

Automation in Warehousing, Sustainability and the Future of Supply Chains.

So Mercator or Kramer, as his surname was when he was a boy, was able to go to one of the best universities in Europe, despite the fact his parents were dead and he had no money himself.

So he matriculated at Leuven University and was given the best education he could get at the time.

One of his companions in Castle College, the college he went to, was Vesalius, who became the world's first anatomist.

He was mixing it with other big names, but at the time he was a complete nobody.

I became a yoga teacher.

I went to grad school in Belgium, studied at the University of Leuven and looked at pedagogy and how you can design learning environments where, you know, well-being is at the center.

What does that mean? And my research focused on mindfulness and education.

Why mindfulness is important.

I'm Marlies van den Bemt.

I'm a junior group leader at KU Leuven in Belgium.

And I study epigenetics in hematopoietic stem cells.

And I've been a member of the Young EHA committee since 2024.

The work focuses on practical implementation rather than classroom metrics alone.

Teams at the University of Liège and KU Leuven used experimental petrology to recreate the planet's magma ocean crystallization and core formation.

Multiple studies published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nature Communications, and Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry map how graphite crust and metallic core developed.

The work prepares context for BepiColombo mission data.

I wouldn't drink it unless it tasted good.

I mean, again, and you can see, well, I think we'll get into this, that there is an expert from KU Leuven who's going to offer an opinion on this.

But yeah, I mean, you know, it's sealed, so...

It's cold there, probably in the ocean, right? They said where they recovered it from, right? English Channel.

It might not taste good, but I think it's certainly worth giving it a shot.

Like I said, I would raise a glass if asked.

Yeah, so according to Kevin Verstreppen, who runs a lab at KU Leuven that studies yeast and fermentation, said that as long as the bottle managed to keep out the seawater, there's a chance that Guinness might still be sippable.

But, Don, Guinness brewed at the time might not have been quite as palatable as modern brews.

My name is Kaat van Acker.

I'm a lecturer at the Department of Social Work at Odyssey University of Applied Sciences in Brussels and in the Department of Psychology at KU Leuven.

I earned my PhD from KU Leuven in 2012 with a study on cultural models of diversity in Belgium.

exploring different sets of shared beliefs, such as multiculturalism and assimilation, and how these beliefs shape everyday interactions and attitudes.

Since then, my research has focused on various issues related to migration and diversity.