Research and education in heritage conservation: focus on relation between technical conservation issues and inter-disciplinary methodologies and approaches for the preservation of the built heritage;
Setting-up and managing a network of Ph.D. students and post-doc researchers on preventive conservation, maintenance and monitoring of monuments and sites;
Holder of Unesco chair on preventive conservation, maintenance and monitoring of monuments and sites supported by the Fund established by PNP of Janssen Pharmaceutica at K.U.Leuven.
Member of the scientific committee of the Joint Program Initiative on "Heritage and Global Change".
Specialties: lime mortar; hydraulic (lime) mortar; (histo...