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Informalization | InForMining | University of Antwerp
InForMining search menu search content Informalization Mobilizing cheap, flexible, and informal labor The term informalization emerges from a critical body of scholarship, which draws attention to the ways in which global capitalism relies on the exploitation of cheap, flexible, and unregulated work…
Research Sietske Van den Wyngaert | Sietske Van den Wyngaert | University of Antwerp
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…
Research Xingfeng Bai | Xingfeng Bai | University of Antwerp
Xingfeng Bai senior researcher Research Xingfeng Bai Research team Organic synthesis (ORSY) Expertise Organic synthesis methodology for developing of new reaction methods to synthesis of value-added chemicals, including catalytic enantioselective reactions for the synthesis of optical active chiral …
Research Evelien Renders | Evelien Renders | University of Antwerp
Evelien Renders unpaid staff Research Evelien Renders Research team Organic synthesis (ORSY) Synthesis of α-secondary alkylamines via reductive functionalization of amides. 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2021 Abstract In this project a new way to synthesize alpha secondary alkylamnes from carboxylic acids (via…
Elisa, an international student from Germany | Business Economics | University of Antwerp
Business Economics Elisa, an international student from Germany Here's her story Elisa, an international student from Germany Here's her story Hi, I'm Elisa and I'm from Germany! Here's a bit more about my experience as a student in Antwerp. The city is vibrant and multicultural, where you can hear …
Research Carlo Sambiagio | Carlo Sambiagio | University of Antwerp
Carlo Sambiagio senior researcher Research Carlo Sambiagio Research team Organic synthesis (ORSY) Expertise Experience in transition metal catalysis, organic synthesis, photochemistry, flow chemistry, medicinal chemistry, high-throughput experimentation. Geminal directing groups in C-H functionalisa…
Exact sciences | Info for companies | University of Antwerp
Info for companies search menu search content Exact sciences License offers Method for production of biobased phenols The production of industrially relevant aromatic chemicals from lignin requires efficient methods for defunctionalization, that is, removing extra substituents. A new synthetic metho…
Outreach Sara Geenen | Sara Geenen | University of Antwerp
Sara Geenen associate professor Outreach Sara Geenen Responsible Jewellery Council 2022 Together with Bossissi Nkuba we prepared a video presentation for the Responsible Jewellery Council, 2022. Responsible Jewellery Council Exhibition Creuseurs des Rêves 2022 CEGEMI and photographer Robert Carrubb…
Trends in global gold production | InForMining | University of Antwerp
InForMining search menu search content Trends in global gold production While gold demand and gold prices are at an all-time high, global gold production is facing a number of systemic challenges related to declining gold reserves, societal resistance, and rising costs. The global gold production sy…
Guided Thriftshop tour | Greenoffice | University of Antwerp
Greenoffice search menu search content Guided Thriftshop tour Want to explore the city and know where to find cheap clothes or decoration for your student house? Green Office will show you around Antwerp! They will introduce you to the best thrift shops and teach you more about their way of working!…
Gold Mining Crystallizations | InForMining | University of Antwerp
InForMining search menu search content Gold Mining Crystallizations Global gold production touching ground Through country case studies, this project seeks to understand how the global gold production system 'crystallizes' in particular places. More precisely, the case studies analyze how the struct…
TruePATH | Institute of Development Policy | University of Antwerp
Institute of Development Policy TruePATH TruePATH TruePATH stands for Transforming Unsustainable Pathways in Agricultural Frontiers: Articulating Microfinance Plus with Local Institutional Change for Sustainability in Nicaragua. In this project, we analyse the institutional dynamics that generate so…
Research Hanan Barich | Hanan Barich | University of Antwerp
Hanan Barich unpaid staff Research Hanan Barich Research team Antwerp engineering, PhotoElectroChemistry & Sensing (A-PECS) Combining photoelectrochemistry and voltammetry: towards a mobile electrosensor for phenolics in industrial wastewater. 01/11/2019 - 31/10/2023 Abstract The amount of chemicals…
Publications Maximilian Wagner | Maximilian Wagner | University of Antwerp
Maximilian Wagner unpaid staff Publications Maximilian Wagner Microhabitat partitioning between sympatric intertidal fish species highlights the importance of sediment composition in gravel beach conservation Source Ecology and evolution - ISSN 2045-7758-13:7 (2023) p. 1-13 Author(s) Maximilian Wagn…
Research Ruben Verstraete | Ruben Verstraete | University of Antwerp
Ruben Verstraete spec. staff member - expert Research Ruben Verstraete Research team Economic and ecological mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL) production by Pseudozyma aphidis through the use of waste and side streams as feedstock, innovative downstream processing and genetic engineering. 01/01/2015 -…
About the Project | InForMining | University of Antwerp
InForMining search menu search content About the Project Informining: The Informalization of Global Gold Production? This project seeks to understand structural trends in the global gold production system. It combines an analysis of macro-level changes in global gold production (global expansion, in…
Travel to Antwerp | Next Generation Animal Tracking | University of Antwerp
Next Generation Animal Tracking search menu search content Travel to Antwerp Travel to Antwerp It is easy to travel to and from Antwerp using public transport. Should you decide to travel by car, please note that the UA car parks are only for members of staff and not for visitors. Travel by train Th…
Research Wout Saelens | Wout Saelens | University of Antwerp
Wout Saelens postdoc researcher FWO Research Wout Saelens Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Energy history, social history, history of consumption and material culture, environmental history, urban history, early modern and modern period A great silence? The everyday politics of smoke…
Zero Poverty Society | Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy | University of Antwerp
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy search menu search content Zero Poverty Society Ensuring a Decent Income for All About the book Marchal, Sarah & Marx, Ive (2024), Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All. Oxford University Press, 336 Pages The notion that every person living am…
| Intelligence in Processes, Advanced Catalysts and Solvents | University of Antwerp
Intelligence in Processes, Advanced Catalysts and Solvents search menu search content Leili Esrafili doctoral defense to take place Monday 9th May at 1 p.m. via Teams. Leili Esrafili doctoral defense “Synthesis of new nano metal-organic frameworks with urea and thiourea ligands and investigation o…
Research Yanou Fishel | Yanou Fishel | University of Antwerp
Yanou Fishel predoc researcher FWO Research Yanou Fishel Research team Intelligence in PRocesses, Advanced Catalysts and Solvents (iPRACS) Cleaving Rubbers: A (Dis)Solution to the Emerging Tyre Waste Problem. 01/11/2022 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Rubbers, although widely used in society, are traditionall…
Research Débora Ottoni Uébe Mansur | Débora Ottoni Uébe Mansur | University of Antwerp
Débora Ottoni Uébe Mansur doctoral scholarship holder Research Débora Ottoni Uébe Mansur Research team Business and Law A sustainable value theory for the international tax system 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024 Abstract Ongoing global negotiations on a new design for the international tax law framework…
PhD defence Leili Esrafili Dizaji | Applied Engineering | University of Antwerp
Applied Engineering PhD defence Leili Esrafili Dizaji PhD defence Leili Esrafili Dizaji Leili Esrafili Dizaji is doctor of Applied Engineering The Faculty of Applied Engineering has a new doctor. Leili Esrafili Dizaji (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Technology) defended her doctoral thesis on …
People on the move: leaving no one behind? | USOS | University of Antwerp
USOS search menu search content People on the move: leaving no one behind? Debating Development series 2022 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue in the 2030 Agenda, with ten out of 17 goals…
Nodding disease | University Fund | University of Antwerp
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…