Nanostructured and Organic Optical and Electronic Materials search menu search content Equipment Equipment Our laboratories include the following equipment: X-band (9.5 GHz) EPR & ODMR/EDMR setup Our Bruker CW EPR spectrometer in the X-band (9.5 GHz), originally installed to study the photographic p…

Biophysics and Biomedical Physics search menu search content Resonance Raman facility Resonance Raman facility Our resonance Raman scattering spectrometer is an 80cm Dilor XY-800, with triple monochromator allowing for multi-channel liquid nitrogen cooled CCD detection or single-channel PM detection…

Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry search menu search content Biomolecular imaging Polyatomic ion sources such as Bi3+ and C60+ allow the analysis of small biomolecules such as lipids, cholesterol, small metabolites, ... The distribution of these molecules in a tissue section can be imaged …

Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content Equipment and Applications Cell culture equipment Culture of e.g. bovine oviductal epithelial cells (BOEC), bovine endometrial eptihelial cells (BEEC), granulosa and theca cells, … In vitro oocyte maturation, fertilisation and embry…

A-PECS search menu search content High-performance liquid chromatography Shimadzu 20A HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a process of separating components in a liquid mixture, eg. organic waste water contaminants.. A liquid sample is injected into a stream of solvent (mobile phas…

Lennart Fernandes unpaid staff Research Lennart Fernandes Research team Theory of quantum systems and complex systems Post-quench prethermalization and thermalization dynamics in Bose gases: extension of the hierarchy of correlations method to the strongly interacting regime, multicomponent systems …

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content SEM Scanning Electron Microscopes FEI QUANTA FEG 250 The Quanta 250 FEG is a field emission scanning electron microscope that can be operated at a broad range of pressures. As a result, the microscope can yield high-resolution imag…

Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy laboratory search menu search content Portable XRF Keymaster Tracer III-V The Tracer III-V instrument from Keymaster Technologies (currently Bruker, Karlsruhe, Germany) is a compact and light (ca 2 kg) instrument. With this portable XRF (PXRF) it is possible to…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content Nanostructured metals and alloys Nanostructured metals and alloys The recent evolution in materials sciences towards the nanoscale also influenced research in metals and alloys. Not only the observation that “smaller is strongerâ…

Nanostructured and Organic Optical and Electronic Materials search menu search content Expertise - Nanoropt Goovaerts Etienne - Characterisation of paramagnetic inorganic and organic compounds - Characterisation of paramagnetic impurities and defects in solids. - Optical characterisation (absorption…

Jacques Tempere professor Research Jacques Tempere Research team Theory of quantum systems and complex systems Expertise Theoretical physics, in particular quantum mechanics and many-body physics. The main areas of application are quantum gases, superfluidity and superconductivity, the quantum theor…

Theory of quantum systems and complex systems search menu search content Atomic Quantum Fluids Atomic Quantum Fluids Atomic gasses can be trapped in magneto-optic traps and cooled down to a few billionth of a degree above absolute zero. In doing so the quantum mechanical nature of the particles show…

Theory of quantum systems and complex systems search menu search content TQC - Outreach Children's University Each year, the University of Antwerp organizes the Children's University, a day dedicated to children between 8 and 11 years old, but interesting for all ages. Our research group participate…

Library search menu search content Regulations learning centre CMI De Parabool Campus Middelheim Art. 1 This regulation describes the internal rules that apply in the Parabool Learning Centre of the University of Antwerp on Campus Middelheim. All rules and user conditions as stated on the website, i…

Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) search menu search content Volatomics Lab Head: prof dr Kevin Lamote Volatile organic compounds as biomarkers for inflammatory and malignant diseases ‘Breath is the mirror of the body’. Already in ancient Greece, Hippocrates instructed hi…

Laboratory of Adsorption and Catalysis search menu search content Equipment at laboratory for adsortpion and catalysis University of Antwerp Spectroscopic techniques At the laboratory of adsorption and catalysis there is different equipment available for analysis and testing of samples. Spectroscopi…

Theory of quantum systems and complex systems search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Tuning exciton-polaritons in Van der Waals heterostructures. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract The study of excitons in two-dimensional materials is rapidly evolving, with promising applications in fiel…

Guido De Bruyne associate professor Research Guido De Bruyne Research team Product development Expertise The research focuses on product ergonomics, in which product ergonomics is approached from anthropometric 3D models, physiological 3D models and Physio-Anatomical human-product interaction. Cogni…

IOF NANO search menu search content Microscopes TEM/STEM - SEM EMAT hosts 6 Transmission Electron Microscopes 3 Scanning Electron Microscopes. The former include two aberration corrected Titan cube instruments, the latter a dual beam and an environmental instrument. Thermo Fisher QU-Ant-EM This uniq…

Anna Worobiec domain coordinator Research Anna Worobiec Research team Optimization of measurement conditions of combined micro analytical techniques, in particular EPMA and MRS, for the research regarding the preventive conservation methods for cultural heritage. 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2012 Abstract In …

Molecular Imaging Center Antwerp search menu search content Publications - MICA Selected Publications The complete academic bibliography for each researcher can be found via 'Members'. Below is a list of selected MICA (A1) publications: 2016 Vangestel C, Thomae D, Van Soom J, Ides J, Wyffels L, Pauw…

Computational Materials Modeling for Nanoscience and Innovative Technologies search menu search content Featured publications 2021 - A Chiral Magnet Induces Vortex Currents in Superconductors (Physics Viewpoint) A. P. Petrović, M. Raju, X. Y. Tee, A. Louat, I. Maggio-Aprile, R. M. Menezes, M.…

Applied Engineering 2025 Attend a PhD defence or find the archive of concluded doctoral research 2025 Attend a PhD defence or find the archive of concluded doctoral research 'Investigation of Apparent Photocurrents and Stabilization Strategies for Cu2O-based Photoelectrolysis' (14/11/2025) Michele d…

Ben Jeurissen associate research professor Research Ben Jeurissen Research team Vision lab Expertise My work is focused on extracting robust and clinically relevant information from quantitative MRI data acquired within realistic scan times. The novel acquisition and analysis techniques that I devel…

Rose Bruffaerts tenure track asst. professor Research Rose Bruffaerts Research team Experimental Neurobiology Unit (ENU) Expertise -Neuroimaging and neurophysiology expertise in human participants (healthy and patient populations) -Computational modelling of internal representations of knowledge in …