My picture
Kenno Vanommeslaeghe
LinkedIn icon LinkedIn
Google Scholar icon Google Scholar

Analytical Chemistry, Applied Chemometrics
and Molecular Modelling (FABI)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Science and Pharmacy

Laarbeeklaan 103
B-1090 Brussels
Belgium

CV

Contents

Top

Courses

As a course director ("titularis")

As a lecturer ("co-titularis")

In a more advisory role ("co-titularis")

Top

Miscellaneous educational resources

DejaVu High Legibility ("DejaVu HL") font

As part of a pilot project on improving the accessibility of university courses to students with reading disorders (in particular dyslexia), I looked into employing a high-legibility font, but failed to find any freely available options. Furthermore, some of the generally available fonts that are deemed "dyslexic-friendly" have very incomplete unicode support, complicating the use of Greek and mathematical glyphs. Therefore, I created a variant of DejaVu (itself an unicode expansion of Bitstream Vera) with a very strong focus on legibility (at the cost of aesthetic beauty).

Usage

Sample text: creation of DejaVu HL

My primary goal was to obtain a proportional sans serif font, but with serifs on glyphs that would otherwise be poorly distinguishable. Specifically, my starting point was DejaVu Sans, to which I added select glyphs from DejaVu Sans Mono, a monospaced font that is optimized for programming (where confusion between lookalike glyphs can have disastrous consequences) and therefore already contained the desired serifs on glyphs that might otherwise be ambiguous. The laborious part consisted of tweaking the shapes and character spacing of the imported monospaced glyphs, as to make them look less foreign in a proportional font.

Disclaimers

License

DejaVu HL is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Top

Interactive 2D van der Waals gas simulation

Introduction

To the right of this text is an interactive 2D simulation of a van der Waals gas. The following is a "standalone" link that will adapt to different screen sizes (and is therefore more useful for general education purposes): kenno.org/vdwgas_beta

The simulation can be interacted with in the following ways:

License

My interactive van der Waals gas simulation is a copyrighted work. It may be displayed free-of-charge for not-for-profit education purposes. I reserve all other rights.

Note: if you have a potential use case that may not be covered by the preceding statement, please do contact me using the "Show e-mail" button next to my picture. I would generally like for this to be used by the community as a tool for teaching (and potentially research). In that light, the current license is merely a placeholder for something more appropriate. What that "something" will be depends on your feedback!

Documentation

Under Construction icon

Top

Last updated Sunday, the 16th of January 2022