Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content SBO project “Strategic change in family businesses” – follow up the results! “How can family firms successfully deal with change?” This is the central question of the SBO project on “Strategic change in family busine…

Death care search menu search content Death care What about the dead in times of climate crisis, pandemics, and multiculturalism? Sooner or later, death becomes part of everybody's life. Often, conversations after death concern mourning or care for the people left behind by the deceased. But what ca…

IOF NANO search menu search content Completed projects - IOF NANO Completed Projects "European development of Superconducting Tapes: integrating novel materials and architectures into cost effective processes for power applications and magnets (EUROTAPES)" 01/09/2012 - 28/02/2017 Promotor: Van Tende…

IOF NANO search menu search content Current projects - IOF NANO Current projects "Multiscale, Multimodal and Multidimensional imaging for Engineering (Mummering)" 01/01/2018 -31/12/2021 Promotor: Sara Bals Fin. programme: H2020 http://www.mummering.eu/ "European infrastructure for spectroscopy, scat…

Karolien Poels full professor Research Karolien Poels Research team Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations and Society (MIOS) Expertise Karolien Poels is actively involved in different national and international research projects involving online (commercial) media environments and …

Foodphase search menu search content Foodphase A new FWO/SBO project In this FWO/SBO-project FoodPhase (Next generation X-ray phase contrast imaging for food quality and process engineering), we propose a radical paradigm shift by enabling lab-based X-ray phase contrast analysis of food. Our proposa…

Dirk Vrebos senior researcher Research Dirk Vrebos Research team Ecosphere Expertise Dr. Dirk Vrebos has been a researcher at the Ecosystem Management Research Group since 2009 and conducts research into climate adaptation, ecosystem services, water management and spatial planning. Over the years, h…

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content GOVTRUST Projects Projects acquired by GOVTRUST promoter team Trust in Specialised Courts: The Unified Patent Court as a Case Study to Disentangle Trust Dynamics – 2024-2027 – FWO Research project – Esther van Zimmeren, Patricia Popelier…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Thomas Machiels Thomas Machiels has a master’s degree in history (2016) and urban design and planning (2018) from the University of Antwerp, and studied one semester at City University of Hong Kong (2018). Thomas joined the research g…

Ann Jorissen full professor Research Ann Jorissen Research team Accountancy and Finance Expertise My research interests are to be situated in the area of accounting and corporate governance. Within the domain of accounting, my focus is on the area of management accounting and management control as w…

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER PRIMARY HEALTHCARE ACCESS search menu search content About us Community Health Workers for Primary Healthcare Access (COMPASS) Project The COMPASS-project is an FWO-SBO funded project which aims to improve access to care through the support of Zorgcompassers, internationally …

Microbial Systems Technology search menu search content Latest news Prigogine medal 2024 awarded to prof Meysman March 2025 Established in 2004 by the University of Siena and the Wessex Institute (https://www.wessex.ac.uk/prigogine-award), the Prigogine Medal honours the legacy of Belgian Nobel Laur…

Centre for Evaluation of Vaccination search menu search content Infectious disease diagnostics Ongoing research Impact measurement of screening programs and vaccination programs under construction Biomarkers in first-void urine for improved diagnosis and monitoring of cervical (pre)cancer Abstract: …

Koen Augustyns full professor Koen Augustyns Education and Career Koen Augustyns (°1965) obtained his Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences at KU Leuven in 1988. He defended his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Medicinal Chemistry) in 1992. The subject of his PhD thesis was “Synthesis of sugar-modifie…

Government and Law search menu search content Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) FWO PhD Fellowship Fundamental Research Deadline: 1 March 2025 PhD Fellowship Strategic Basic Research Deadline: 1 March 2025 Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline: 2 December 2024 Senior Postdoctor…

Innofins search menu search content InnoFiNS Financing the urban transition InnoFiNS is an FWO-SBO project investigating the implementation of innovative financing for nature-based solutions in Flemish cities. To this end, Antwerp University and Hasselt University bring together researchers from dif…

Q-INSPEX search menu search content Cases Non-contact moisture content analysis Our innovative spectral analysis technique enables the precise, non destructive water content determination of powders with an expected error <1% (g/g x 100) FWO SBO project: Foodphase Next generation X-ray phase contras…

Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development search menu search content Ecocties: Green roofs and facades in cities EcoCities is an interdisciplinary project which researches the potential of green roofs and facades as a source of a ecosystem services in cities. Three research groups of the …

TURQUOISE search menu search content Partners Societal advisory committee As part of TURQUOISE, we have established an advisory board with social stakeholders who will also use the results of the research in practice as end-users. It meets twice a year to provide input at each stage of the research …

Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content News & Events Upcoming Events Past events European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) 2025 Conference September 10 - 12, 2025 Research Seminar with Siri Terjesen August 27, 2025 Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day 2025 Ma…

COMPOST Collective search menu search content Let us introduce you to our team members! To find out more about a researcher, click on their picture to open their University of Antwerp researcher page. Kristien Hens Kristien Hens is professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp. She loves micr…

Goedele Verreydt guest prof. external funds Research Goedele Verreydt Research team Ecosphere Managing Soil and Groundwater Impacts from Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification (INSPIRATION). 15/02/2017 - 14/02/2021 Abstract Leaching losses of phosphorus (P) are a potential threat to almost half…

Research Group Product Development search menu search content Service Design Lab Context Topics Services Projects Related courses Team Associations & partners Contact Context In an ever-growing experience economy, we advocate that services can and should be designed with the same care as products, w…

Research Foundation Flanders FWO The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) stimulates and financially supports fundamental scientific research, strategic basic research, clinical scientific research, the purchase of large-scale and medium-scale research infrastructure, and the management of large c…

TURQUOISE search menu search content About TURQUOISE TURQUOISE is an interdisciplinary research project on the potential of blue-green strategies for climate adaptation. Persistent droughts between 2017 and 2021 have made it clear that Flanders is insufficiently prepared for water scarcity and droug…