Science

Profile and Figures

The Faculty of Science organizes, coordinates, implements and promotes academic education in its programmes, scientific research and scientific services in the areas for which it is responsible: bioscience-engineering, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics-informatics.

Figures

The Faculty of Science in facts and figures:

Organisation

  • 6 departments
  • 30 research groups
  • 1100 bachelor and master students (of which 10% international)
  • 420 doctorate students (of which 40% international)
  • 1063 staff (of which 33 % international, 63 nationalities)
  • 96 professors
  • 25 teaching assistants
  • 737 researchers
  • 141 administrative and technical staff

Education

Research

  • 8 faculty key research domains
  • participation in 4 of the 9 university key research domains
  • participation in 1 of the 3 university research growth areas
  • 5 University of Antwerp Centers of Excellence (NANO, MST, CASH, PLASMA and Global Change Ecology)
  • 2 core facilities (CalcUA, CeProMa)
  • 1 interfaculty institute (IMDO)
  • around 800 scientific publications per year
  • over 1/3 of all externally acquired research funding of the University of Antwerp