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Education Marc Huygens | Marc Huygens | University of Antwerp
Marc Huygens guest prof. external funds Education Marc Huygens 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2025-2026 Sediments: sustainable building blocks Sediments: sustainable building blocks Course code: 3202WETSMT Master of Applied Ecohydrology MNM Water Sustainability: Integrating Technology- and Nature-bas…
Research Cedric Goossens | Cedric Goossens | University of Antwerp
Cedric Goossens doctoral scholarship holder Research Cedric Goossens Research team Geobiology Marine carbon dioxide drawdown via enhanced carbonate dissolution in coastal sediments. 01/11/2024 - 14/09/2026 Abstract Ocean alkalinization is a climate stabilization technique that increases the buffer c…
Research Benjamin Van Heurck | Benjamin Van Heurck | University of Antwerp
Benjamin Van Heurck doctoral scholarship holder Research Benjamin Van Heurck Research team Geobiology The impact of macrofauna and microbiota on silicate weathering in coastal sediments. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) is an approach that targets for the deliberat…
Research Sebastiaan van de Velde | Sebastiaan van de Velde | University of Antwerp
Sebastiaan van de Velde senior researcher Research Sebastiaan van de Velde Research team Geobiology Expertise Focussing on the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, iron and sulfur, I study the past and present ocean, using a research approach that combines field work and laboratory incubations with nume…
Meysman Filip | Microbial Systems Technology | University of Antwerp
Microbial Systems Technology search menu search content Meysman Filip Division of labor and growth during electrical cooperation in multicellular cable bacteria Geerlings, Nicole M.J.; Karman, Cheryl; Trashin, Stanislav; As, Karel S.; Kienhuis, Michiel V.M.; Hidalgo Martinez, Silvia; Vasquez-Cardena…
Research Philip Ley | Philip Ley | University of Antwerp
Philip Ley researcher Research Philip Ley Research team Geobiology The electrical ecosystem: cable bacteria and associated partner microorganisms 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Long filamentous cable bacteria are capable of generating and mediating electricity over centimeter-scale distances, thus…
Simulating natural environments | Geobiology | University of Antwerp
Geobiology search menu search content Simulating natural environments Bioturbators mix sediment in the mesocosm setup. Closed incubations to determine the carbonate system. Merging lab and nature Current knowledge on how mineral dissolution or precipitation can increase ocean alkalinity is largely b…
Vegetation in tidal wetlands is key to their climate resilience | Global Change Ecology | University of Antwerp
Global Change Ecology search menu search content Vegetation in tidal wetlands is key to their climate resilience Vegetation key to climate resilient coastal wetlands Coastal wetlands are hotspots of biodiversity as well as significant carbon sinks. They also provide great opportunities to protect ou…
Research team expertise | Geobiology | University of Antwerp
Geobiology search menu search content Research team expertise Boschker Eric I study electron conduction in cable bacteria. Technique Raman, Cryo-EM, ToF-SIMS Users Researchers Keywords Microbiology, Bacteria, Sediments Flipkens Gunter Limiting global warming will require not only reducing emissions …
Education Bart Slootmaekers | Bart Slootmaekers | University of Antwerp
Bart Slootmaekers policy officer Education Bart Slootmaekers 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2025-2026 Aquatic Ecology Aquatic Ecology Course code: 2001WETAQU Master of Biology: Evolution and Behavioral Biology Master of Biology: Global Change Biology Master of Biology: Biodiversity, Conservation and …
Meysman Filip | Microbial Systems Technology | University of Antwerp
Microbial Systems Technology search menu search content Meysman Filip Global maps of soil temperature Lembrechts, Jonas; van den Hoogen, Johan; Aalto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B.; Allonsius, Camille; Géron, Charly; Meysman, Filip , Portillo-Estrada, Miguel; Radujkovic, Dajana; Van de Vondel, Stijn; …
WISLAS | Plants and Ecosystems | University of Antwerp
Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content WISLAS Warmed Icelandic Soils, Lipids and Sequencing: towards a better understood climate proxy (2016 - 2018) Researcher: Cindy De Jonge Chemical fossils are molecular components that carry information on the environment in which they were produced, s…
Research | Geobiology | University of Antwerp
Geobiology search menu search content Research The research group GEOBIOLOGY performs fundamental and applied research at the intersection between Geology and Biology. Our prime objective is to generate profound insights about the interactions between the biosphere on the one hand, and the geosphere…
Research Filip Meysman | Filip Meysman | University of Antwerp
Filip Meysman research professor Research Filip Meysman Research team Geobiology Expertise Marine microbiology and biogeochemistry. Oceanography. Climate change and global change. Citizen science. Long-distance electron transport in coastal lagoon environments in the Mediterranean. 15/07/2025 - 14/0…
Research Jean-Philippe Belliard | Jean-Philippe Belliard | University of Antwerp
Jean-Philippe Belliard assistant professor - senior researcher Research Jean-Philippe Belliard Research team Ecosphere Expertise Estuarine and coastal processes; biogeomorphology of coastal wetlands; physical oceanography Assessing effects of changes in sediment supply across time and space on tidal…
Publications Maede Gazor | Maede Gazor | University of Antwerp
Maede Gazor unpaid staff Publications Maede Gazor Intertidal areas as accommodation space for suspended sediments case study : Scheldt Estuary Source Antwerpen, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 2025,xiii, 213 Author(s) Maede Gazor, Patrick Meire Citation link More fr…
Research Jeanine Geelhoed | Jeanine Geelhoed | University of Antwerp
Jeanine Geelhoed senior researcher Research Jeanine Geelhoed Research team Geobiology Highly conductive protein fibers as a radically new technological material. 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026 Abstract A prominent societal challenge is to ensure that electronic technology becomes more sustainable, and henc…
Publications Benjamin Van Heurck | Benjamin Van Heurck | University of Antwerp
Benjamin Van Heurck doctoral scholarship holder Publications Benjamin Van Heurck Microbial community structure in contrasting Hawaiian coastal sediments Source Microbial ecology - ISSN 1432-184X-88:1 (2025) p. 1-13 Author(s) Benjamin Van Heurck, Diana Vasquez-Cardenas, Astrid Hylén, Emilia Jankowsk…
Publications Mona Huyzentruyt | Mona Huyzentruyt | University of Antwerp
Mona Huyzentruyt doctoral scholarship holder Publications Mona Huyzentruyt Identifying drivers of global spatial variability in organic carbon sequestration in tidal marsh sediments Source The science of the total environment - ISSN 0048-9697-957 (2024) p. 1-11 Author(s) Mona Huyzentruyt, Jean-Phili…
Research Louis Beyens | Louis Beyens | University of Antwerp
Louis Beyens emeritus with assignment Research Louis Beyens Research team Ecosphere Nutrient cycling in wetlands along a climatological gradient: effects of fertilization, drainage and climate. 01/10/2007 - 30/09/2010 Abstract One of the most important ecosystem processes is decomposition. Decomposi…
About Philip Ley | Philip Ley | University of Antwerp
Philip Ley researcher About Philip Ley Philip Ley Contact Campus Drie Eiken Show email address Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk, BEL In my PhD project I am studying the microbial ecology of 'electrical ecosystems'. The key players of these sediment ecosystems are electricity-conducting cable bacter…
Available Master thesis topics | Geobiology | University of Antwerp
Geobiology search menu search content Available Master thesis topics New Culturing approaches for cable bacteria - with Prof. Dr. Ir. Filip Meysman and Dr. Ir. Jeanine Geelhoed Very recently, long filamentous so-called “cable bacteria” have been discovered in marine sediments that are able to ge…
Research publications | Geobiology | University of Antwerp
Geobiology search menu search content Research publications Reviews and syntheses : potential and limitations of oceanic carbon dioxide storage via reactor-based accelerated weathering of limestone Source Biogeosciences - ISSN 1726-4170-22:20 (2025) p. 5557-5572 Author(s) Tom Huysmans, Filip Meysman…
Research Stijn Temmerman | Stijn Temmerman | University of Antwerp
Stijn Temmerman professor Research Stijn Temmerman Research team Ecosphere Expertise Stijn Temmerman and his team are specialized in the ecology and geomorphology of coastal and estuarine systems, in particular tidal wetlands (marshes and mangroves): How they function through interactions between ti…
Research Ken Schoutens | Ken Schoutens | University of Antwerp
Ken Schoutens postdoc researcher FWO Research Ken Schoutens Research team Ecosphere Enhancing mangrove restoration success: Effects of clustered planting on seedling survival under hydrodynamic stress. 01/04/2025 - 30/03/2026 Abstract Mangrove restoration forms a sustainable nature-based approach, t…