Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content PhD Isabelle Gabriëls The use of zebrafish feeding trials for the safety assessment of genetically modified crops Isabelle Gabriëls, MSc, PhD Date: 6th June 2019, at 5 PM Location: Auditorium O5, Campus Drie Eiken Abstract In the EU…

VLIR-IUC Limpopo search menu search content Project 6: Food security Key focus Research and research capacity building in area of chicken and crop production and building proteinics and molecular genetics Objectives The School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is an internationally recogniz…

Catherine Windey unpaid staff Research Catherine Windey Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise My broad scholarly interest lies in environmental politics, in uneven landscapes’ structures and histories, and in changing human-nature entanglements and their spatial-tempor…

Luc D'Haese emeritus occasional assignment Research Luc D'Haese Research team Expertise - Economic and financial project evaluation in development, as part of poverty alleviation policies - Formulation missions for national strategy documents, and proposals for actions aiming and improving the livel…

Shock Cities search menu search content General information Research Research outline Central in this project are the late medieval food crises in an urban environment. For an urban environment, the focus is on five cities in and near the Flemish county. To get a better understanding of these food c…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Bio-energy Biomass production, Life cycle analysis, greenhouse gas balance One of the strategies for the mitigation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the use of bio-energy as a replacement for fossil fuels. The use of biomass crops – such…

Q-INSPEX search menu search content Quantitative Industrial Inspection through non-Invasive Imaging Q-INSPEX, beyond the visible Our goal is to help companies and organisations worldwide to solve their non-destructive inspection challenges by revealing the "invisible information". Therefore, the Q-I…

Björn De Samber unpaid staff Research Björn De Samber Research team Q-INSPEX: Quantitative industrial inspection through non-invasive imaging. 15/10/2020 - 31/12/2026 Abstract Q-INSPEX aims at the development of novel imaging and image processing protocols to non-invasively and quantitatively insp…

Filip De Weerdt valorisation manager Research Filip De Weerdt Research team Vision lab Expertise Solid state physics, atomic defect manipulation through irradiation, heat, or high-temperature/high-pressure treatment, diffusion modellng. Innovation design, modeling and implementation, licensing, IP m…

Ecoplan search menu search content Provisioning services Provisioning services Wood production Forests are the most important producers of the renewable resource wood. Hence, the relevant factor for wood production is the forest area in a region. However, also other factors will affect wood producti…

Catherine Windey unpaid staff About Catherine Windey Catherine Windey Contact Stadscampus Show email address Lange Sint - Annastraat 7 2000 Antwerpen, BEL I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) of the University of Antwerp where I recently completed my PhD in Dev…

MONDO search menu search content PAKT tour 16 June 2022 We visited the roof farm of PAKT and learned all about circular roof crops, growing on hay, low tech solutions, rooftop farming, the history of the site and more. After the visit, we enjoyed a picnic in the evening sun... What a way to end the …

Gaby Deckmyn unpaid staff Research Gaby Deckmyn Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Modelling and assessing surface change impacts on Belgian and Western European climate (MASC). 01/10/2013 - 30/06/2018 Abstract The overall objective of this project is to study t…

Uğur Tan unpaid staff Research Uğur Tan Research team Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES) Expertise My research focuses on examining the responses of plants to various abiotic stress factors such as drought and salinity. This includes assessments of enzymatic and non-enzymatic …

Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development search menu search content Climate & Energy cluster Research on a variety of disciplines ranging from the production of bioenergy and hydrogen, the capturing and utilisation of residual heat and carbon dioxide, in addition to research on the socie…

SUSTAIN | Biobased Sustainability Engineering search menu search content Climate solutions Climate solutions Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces. In the Paris agreement, all countries committed themselves to limit the global warming to well below 2°C, aiming fo…

VLIR-IUC Limpopo search menu search content Run the Antwerp 10 Miles and support Dikgale Chronic Diseases Intervention Project - Global Health Institute Move against chronic diseases in South Africa! What is DIK CDIP? The ‘Dikgale Chronic Diseases Intervention Project' (DIK CDIP) is a community ba…

Tim Verdonck professor Publications Tim Verdonck Reliable statistical learning for regression and causal discovery Source -, KU Leuven & Universiteit Antwerpen,xxi, 202 p. Author(s) Ruicong Yao, Tim Verdonck, Jakob Raymaekers, P.J. Rousseeuw Citation link Diverse ensemble cost-sensitive logistic reg…

Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology search menu search content Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology LAMB Our team shares a passion for beneficial microorganisms and their potential to enhance human and environmental health. We implement broad ecological and molecular…

Robin Lasters unpaid staff Publications Robin Lasters Bioaccumulation and toxicity of perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS) and perfluorobutane sulfonamide (FBSA) in **Eisenia fetida** and **Eisenia andrei** Source Ecotoxicology and environmental safety - ISSN 0147-6513-302 (2025) p. 1-10 Author(s) Thimo…

Gustavo Gomes De Sousa unpaid staff Research Gustavo Gomes De Sousa Research team Biobased sustainability engineering (SUSTAIN) Overcoming global food-chain stress by using microbial protein as feed ingredient on aquaculture. 01/12/2019 - 31/12/2020 Abstract World population will reach 9 billion in …

Rob Moerkens unpaid staff Publications Rob Moerkens Employing **Macrolophus pygmaeus** as natural enemy against sweet pepper key pests in practice Source Antwerpen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Faculteit Wetenschappen, Departement Biologie, 2020,174 p. Author(s) Nathalie Brenard, Herwig Leirs, Rob Moerke…

Jari Temmermans predoc researcher FWO Research Jari Temmermans Research team Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (LAMB) Entomovectoring of lactic acid bacteria to control Botrytis cinerea on strawberries. 01/11/2022 - 31/10/2026 Abstract The phytopathogenic fungus, Botrytis cinerea,…

Paolo Zuccarini postdoc researcher FWO Publications Paolo Zuccarini Strategies for salt stress reduction in horticultural crops Source Tuscia, -, Author(s) Paolo Zuccarini, Alberto Graifenberg, Francesco Saccardo Citation link Soil enzyme activities -plus soil biological, chemical and physical varia…

Iris Janssens doctoral scholarship holder Publications Iris Janssens Weathering indicators according to earthworm presence and survival in an artificial organo-mineral system Source PANGAEA, 2025, Author(s) Tullia Calogiuri, Iris Janssens, Alix Vidal, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Tim Verdonck, Thomas C…