Henry van de Velde search menu search content Sam Vanhee 2020 - 2025 The emergence of interior architecture in Belgium, 1945-1999. Assessing the impact of education on the identity formation of the design discipline. Promotor: Els De Vos Partners: Benoît Vandevoort (KU Leuven), Fredie Floré (KU Le…

Innofins search menu search content Interdisciplinary approach 5 research lines The introduction of new financing instruments in the NBS infrastructure requires parallel scientific breakthroughs across disciplines. Our research develops five multidisciplinary lines of enquiry, ensuring a holistic an…

Filip Van Den Eede professor Research Filip Van Den Eede Research team Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) Expertise Research line psychosomatic medicine: We mainly focus our research on the neurobiological, psychophysiological and psychological vulnerability and correlates …

Noortje Zonnekein predoc researcher FWO Research Noortje Zonnekein Research team VIB CMN - Applied and Translational Neurogenomics Network-based computational drug repurposing for the treatment of KCNQ2-encephalopathy. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE)…

Sietske Van den Wyngaert unpaid staff Research Sietske Van den Wyngaert Research team Centre for Urban History The pre-industrial transformation of boys' labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce? (1550 – 1800). 01/10/2018 - 30/09/2020 Abstrac…

Enviromics search menu search content Citizen Science Next to participating in collaborative research and providing scientific services, the Enviromics consortium creates tangible societal impact, very often through citizen science approaches. While not directly aimed at revenue, citizen science pro…

Sam Geens postdoc researcher FWO Research Sam Geens Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Study of labour and living standards during the late medieval period in European perspective. My research focuses on all aspects of inequality: wealth, income, gender, occupation, etc. A single patte…

Jana Goyens unpaid staff Research Jana Goyens Research team Functional Morphology Expertise Balance control is essential for animals that walk or run. Sensing the position and movement of the own body is crucial in this regard. The inner ear houses a small organ, the vestibular system, that senses r…

A-PECS search menu search content Material research For our material research, we have the following equipment available: Contact Angle Goniometer Drop contact angle Stylus Profiler (DektaXT) Surface profiling, step height layer thickness, surface roughness Drying stoves and Furnaces FTIR Spectromet…

Lines of strength In its teaching, research and service to society, UAntwerp follows a resolute course, characterised by a number of distinctive lines of strength. Excellence emerging from a culture of quality, supported by a caring work and learning environment The University of Antwerp aims for fu…

Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development search menu search content Research Environmental research at the University of Antwerp is performed by IMDO in a interdisciplinary network configuration. The activities of IMDO are characterised by an intensive and dynamic interaction between the…

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Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 24 June 2025 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CET) Internationalisation and regionalisation of the cement value chain in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Speaker: Divin-Luc Bikubanya Over the past seventy years, the cement industry has undergone sig…

Migloba search menu search content Intercultural education in South Tyrol Author: Irene Landini Irene Landini is a YUFE post-doctoral research, specialized in international migration and immigrant integration into host societies. She is interested in investigating the main obstacles to and the strat…

Arts Language in Use - Research axes Faculty of Arts Language in Use - Research axes Faculty of Arts Language in Use As opposed to the formalistic approaches to language that are still dominant at many universities, the majority of the linguistic research at the University of Antwerp is characterise…

Apurva Bhatkhande doctoral scholarship holder Research Apurva Bhatkhande Research team Ecosphere Quantitative extrapolation in ecotoxicology (QTOX). 01/02/2023 - 31/01/2027 Abstract Reliable assessment of the ecological risks posed by chemicals is a fundamental component of European policies concern…

NeXED search menu search content Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds NeXED About NeXED NeXED is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network, funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe). NeXED started in January 2025 and will run until December …

Jela Illegems unpaid staff Research Jela Illegems Research team Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) Assessment of personality dimensions and clinical subtypes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and their predictive value for the (long-term) outcomes after group cognitive behaviour …

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content Laboratory of Medical Microbiology - Biofilm Model Systems Biofilm model systems The LMM develops and undertakes studies investigating the mechanisms of biofilm formation for all forms of bacteria. We are currently defining patterns of ge…

Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe search menu search content Academic publications - RESL-eu Publications in national and international journals EDUCATION IN FLANDERS - Balancing social and economic rationales while tackling early school leaving EDUCATION POLICIES CONCERNING EARLY SCHOOL LEAVI…

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 …

University Fund search menu search content Nodding disease Help us prevent nodding disease Learn more about the nodding disease What is nodding disease? Nodding disease, or nodding syndrome, is a form of epilepsy that occurs in children between the ages of five and fifteen in South Sudan, Uganda, Ta…

Ellen Heirwegh doctoral scholarship holder Research Ellen Heirwegh Research team Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) Identification and validation of volatile organic compounds as predictive biomarkers for the efficiency of immunotherapy as treatment for malignant pleural mesothel…

Henk de Smaele professor Publications Henk de Smaele “Ah! De muzelmannen zijn wijzer!” Belgische antiklerikalen en liberalen in het Osmaanse Rijk Source Geschiedenissen van de islam in Nederland en Vlaanderen / Crienen, Vera [edit.]; et al. [edit.]-p. 161-186 Author(s) Houssine Alloul, Henk de S…

Julie Van der Wielen postdoc researcher FWO Research Julie Van der Wielen Research team Center for European Philosophy Expertise My main research interests are twentieth century French philosophy and philosophical anthropology. I have had the chance to develop an expertise in the philosophies of Gil…