Diana Hendrickx

Introduction

Diana Hendrickx comes from Belgium (Schelle, Antwerp). She studied mathematics at the University of Antwerp, where she received her master degree in 1998. After having obtained her master degree she continued working as a teacher in secondary schools in Belgium.

In 2005 she started with a study in Environmental Sciences at the Open University of the Netherlands in Heerlen, where she received her Bsc degree in 2007 and her Msc degree in 2008. During the final year of her studies she did her research project at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO). Her research project was about the characterisation and stimulation of the degradation potential of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in the aquifer of the Zenne-site, a polluted industrial site in the neighbourhood of Brussels (Belgium).

In januari 2009 Diana started her PhD-project on "Emerging time-resolved metabolomics data structures from in-silico networks".

Research: Emerging time-resolved metabolomics data structures from in-silico networks

The goal of this project is to study data analysis methods aimed to infer the topology and stoichiometry of metabolic networks. To describe metabolic networks, we often need methods that allow for non-linear approximations of the system. As a consequence of this, a great number of parameters are required to describe such systems. For the methods studied in previous research, this leads to computational times that are unreasonable. This problem cannot be overcome easily. One of the goals of this project is to search analysis methods taking less computational time.