Migloba search menu search content The Tammorra Displaced — FSW Lecture by prof. Augusto Ferraiuolo 28/03/2024 from 16:30 to 18:00, Aula M.004 About the lecture In this talk Prof. Ferraiuolo analyzes a Southern Italian dance and music called tammurriata. The origin of the name comes from the princ…

Science at the Fair search menu search content Spectacular Bodies Performing Anatomy, Medicine and Anthropology PhD: Gitte Samoy | Supervisor: Nele Wynants | Co-supervisor: Marjan Doom This subproject will focus on the question to what extent ideas about the sane or the ‘normal’ body, but also m…

Tom Koss unpaid staff Research Tom Koss Research team Grammar and Pragmatics How to catch the present? A typological study of present-tense marking 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract The default function of a present-tense construction would appear to be locating situations at the time of speaking. Ye…

Arne Mertens academic interim staff postdoc Research Arne Mertens Research team Fundamental Mathematics Expertise Following the insights of Aguiar, Leinster and Bacard, we consider simplicial objects that are internalized to a non-cartesian monoidal category. We aim to use them to construct a concre…

DigiTax search menu search content New technologies that transform tax administrations Summary New technology is more and more used in the taxation process by both the tax administrations and the taxpayer and his stakeholders. This so-called tax technology can contribute to the efficiency of the tax…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content Publications Shortly after its establishment, GLAC started publishing a yearbook series, called L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire, published by L’Harmattan. All chapters (most in French, some in English) in all of the 20 yearbook (Annuair…

Timour Ichmoukhamedov postdoctoral scholarship hold. Research Timour Ichmoukhamedov Research team Theory of quantum systems and complex systems Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Statistical Physics (RL4QStat). 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2027 Abstract During the last two decades, Machine Learning (ML) and A…

A-PECS search menu search content Electrochemistry ELECTROCHEMISTRY is situated in between the field of electricity and chemistry investigating the reactions occurring at the interface of the electrode (with and without adsorbed particles) and the solution (Pletcher et al. 2001). These reactions inv…

Sarah Van der Reysen doctoral scholarship holder Research Sarah Van der Reysen Research team Medicinal Chemistry (UAMC) Modulation of cathepsin activity by pathogenic bacteria. 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 Abstract We will investigate how some harmful bacteria can evade the immune system and cause infect…

Astrid De Wit associate professor Research Astrid De Wit Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise I am a cognitive linguist with a keen interest in the semantics of grammatical constructions, primarily within the domain of tense, aspect and modality. Why, for instance, do speakers of Dutch pre…

Evolutionary Ecology Group - EVECO search menu search content Biological diversity How “Supergenes” Help Fish Evolve into New Species Cichlid fish research helps an international research team led by the University of Antwerp to unlock the secret of biological diversity Why are there so many dif…

VAXINFECTIO search menu search content Research mission and members Research Mission The Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute - VAXINFECTIO, is part of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences; VAXINFECTIO represents a close collaboration between: Health Economics & Modelling Infectious Diseases …

Aleksandra Lelek postdoc researcher FWO Research Aleksandra Lelek Research team Particle Physics Group Expertise My main field of interest is the proton structure. Since my bachelor studies I’ve been working on phenomenology of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which describes the interactions between…

Kenzo Yasaka doctoral scholarship holder Research Kenzo Yasaka Research team Fundamental Mathematics Symmetry reduction and unreduction in mechanics and geometry. 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026 Abstract `Geometric mechanics' usually stands for the application of differential geometric methods in the study …

Yannick Gullentops unpaid staff Research Yannick Gullentops Research team Fundamental Mathematics Rigidity and conservation laws of Hamiltonian partial differential equations in hyperkähler Floer theory. 01/10/2017 - 30/09/2021 Abstract Named after the Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician…

Medicine and Health Sciences New immune cell therapy New immune cell therapy New immune cell therapy destroys tumours' defensive shield UAntwerp researchers make breakthrough in fight against pancreatic and colorectal cancer Tumours in the pancreas or colon are often shielded by a layer of connectiv…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content Magnetism in materials Magnetism in materials Magnetic materials rely on the ordering of the magnetic moments of their constituent atoms which leads to a specific response of the material when applying e.g. an external field. Many …

Zeng Li unpaid staff Research Zeng Li Research team Investigating the potential of the glycolytic enzyme enolase from Trypanosoma evansi as a target for parasite detection and control. 15/07/2019 - 14/07/2020 Abstract Trypanosoma evansi is a widely spread parasite that causes a debilitating disease …

Sonja Hohloch professor Research Sonja Hohloch Research team Fundamental Mathematics Expertise 1) Integrable Hamiltonian systems and their singularities (elliptic, hyperbolic, focus-focus) and bifurcation behavior; interaction with Hamiltonian S^1-actions. 2) Symplectic geometry, Floer theory and it…

Antwerp Doctoral School search menu search content Grow your future career Competence category G: Career Management Content It’s never too late to start growing your future career. And shaping your future starts with you. This training will help you to build the brand called YouTM, by starting fro…

Arts and Media Archaeology | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Public keynote Annie van den Oever "BOEM! or Experimental media archaeological reflections on re-enactment and “crazy” avant-garde performances as part of media history" Date: 27 Aug. 2024 Time: 4.3…

Wendy Lowen research professor Research Wendy Lowen Research team Fundamental Mathematics Expertise Research in mathematics in the broad area of algebra, geometry and topology. More specifically research in noncommutative geometry, homological and homotopical algebra, deformation theory. Deformation…

Pawel Brzeminski postdoctoral scholarship hold. Research Pawel Brzeminski Research team Medicinal Chemistry (UAMC) Next generation ketoamide inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein (FAP) to revolutionize radionuclide therapy in cancer (KetoFAPIs). 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Fibroblast acti…

Geobiology search menu search content Available Master thesis topics New Culturing approaches for cable bacteria - with Prof. Dr. Ir. Filip Meysman and Dr. Ir. Jeanine Geelhoed Very recently, long filamentous so-called “cable bacteria” have been discovered in marine sediments that are able to ge…

Burak Karaduman PhD Canditate Research Burak Karaduman Research team Antwerp Systems and software Modelling (AnSyMo) Intelligent Software Agents and Multi-agent Systems for the Lifecycle of Smart Cyber-physical System-of-Systems. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2024 Abstract AnSyMo (Antwerp Systems and Software …