Tomer Damsky Research Tomer Damsky Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute The Voice of Many Waters: Acoustemopoetic Composition of Carmelite Mysticism. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2026 Abstract 'The voice of many waters' is a description of God's voice by 16th-century Spanish Carmelite nuns. Despi…

Bartaku Vandeput postdoc researcher FWO Research Bartaku Vandeput Research team Center for Ethics Expertise `Koelleven´is a project featuring the exploration of the ethics of attunement, - deep listening in the context of the microbiota in hyperboloid cooling towers of electric energy facilities. T…

Amit Gur unpaid staff Research Amit Gur Research team Centre for Philosophical Psychology Consideration of Musical Texture as a Perceptual Phenomenon; Implementation of visual texture analysis methods, on the phenomenon of musical texture. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2022 Abstract Texture as a distinct theor…

COMPOST Collective search menu search content Beyond The Genome This project aims to identify and investigate ethical issues specifically in the context of large-scale proteomics research. The project is highly interdisciplinary with researchers from bioinformatics, precision medicine, proteomics, p…

Hearing the Past: Reconstructing the Aural Heritage of Antwerp in the 19th Century search menu search content Hearing the Past Reconstructing the Aural Heritage of Antwerp in the 19th Century This project aims to advance the theoretical landscape in historical studies and spatial humanities, emphasi…

ECOSPHERE search menu search content Science meets Art ECOSPHERE believes that art is an added value for science and vice versa. Nature is not just numbers, it is also pure emotion and mesmerizing beauty. We all care more for things that touch our heart an soul, and that is what art does. Therefore,…

Peter Reynaert emeritus occasional assignment Publications Peter Reynaert Phenomenology Source Handbook of Pragmatics. Manual / Verschueren, Jef [edit.]; Östman, Jan-Ola [edit.]-p. 1051-1055 Author(s) Peter Reynaert, Jef Verschueren Citation link Sonic silhouettes : musical movement investigating t…

Michiel Wouters associate professor Publications Michiel Wouters Dark-state phase transition to a dark soliton in a dissipative Bose-Hubbard chain Source Physical review research - ISSN 2643-1564-8:3 (2026) p. Author(s) Robbe Ceulemans, Samuel E. Begg, Matthew J. Davis, Michiel Wouters Citation link…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Singing the Silences 18 November 2024 - Hoda Siahtiri Sign up Location: S.S209 ARIA attic, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp Time: 15h-17h, unless communicated otherwise Target audience: junior academic and artistic researchers Preparatory read…

Hearing the Past: Reconstructing the Aural Heritage of Antwerp in the 19th Century search menu search content About This project aims to advance the theoretical landscape in historical studies and spatial humanities, emphasising the embodied experience of urban spaces. We propose an innovative metho…

John Arblaster associate professor Research John Arblaster Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise John Arblaster mainly conducts research into medieval and early modern mystics from the Low Countries, with a parti…

Tejasvi Niranjan senior researcher Publications Tejasvi Niranjan Methylome analysis of FTLD patients with TDP-43 pathology identifies epigenetic signatures specific to pathological subtypes Source Molecular neurodegeneration - ISSN 1750-1326-20:1 (2025) p. 1-27 Author(s) Cristina Vicente, Tejasvi Ni…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Lecture recordings Gabriela Cruz and Erkki Huhtamo Lecture by Gabriela Cruz Chair: Leen Engelen Magic lantern: Seeing far, seeing self, and other delights in Méliès’s Lanterne Magique, Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann The stupendous …

Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts search menu search content Method/Art 2026 The THRESHOLD of CO-CREATION 30 & 31 March 2026 Royal Conservatoire & Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp Research seminar initiated by Vivi Touloumidi, Umut Eldem and Adilia Yip Within artistic research, the artist-re…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Biographies #1 María Mazzanti & Anna Bierler María Mazzanti is an architect educator and researcher based in Amsterdam with a particular interest in critical spatial practices, feminist geography and publishing. She is an editor in Fail…

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…

Centre for Philosophical Psychology search menu search content Past projects Find below an exhaustive list of the research projects carried out at the CPP, listed per year of completion. Medical Treatment, Evidence of Effectiveness, and Placebo. 01/10/2018 - 30/09/2022 Abstract Medical treatment is …

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Linking Bodies of Water By Maria Mazzanti & Anna Bierler "Even while in constant motion, water is also a planetary archive of meaning and matter. To drink a glass of water is to ingest the ghosts of bodies that haunt that wat…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 The Humour of Collective Representation (designing the sense of humour) by Ola-Dele Kuku 'The society is a system - a social system and we learn from the study of physics that disorder in a system always increases with time. …

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 A tribune by Traumnovelle Rather than defining community through the prism of identity and belonging, we propose to foster the creation of a new community based on shared ideals. Participants will be invited to design and con…

Kevin Mets tenure track asst. professor - academic interim staff postdoc Research Kevin Mets Research team Internet Data Lab (IDLab) Expertise The development and application of new artificial intelligence techniques. More specifically, I focus on deep learning (graph neural networks) and (multi-age…

Piraye Hacigüzeller associate professor Research Piraye Hacigüzeller Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Expertise I am trained as an archaeologist and civil engineer. My research interests in archaeology and heritage studies broadly encompass: - formal (mainly semantic) info…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 Supermarket as Public Stage By Johanna Roth The supermarket is one of the most frequented architectures of our time, an everyday stage where belonging is continuously negotiated. Both intimate and anonymous, local and global,…

Kristien Hens professor Research Kristien Hens Research team Center for Ethics Expertise Ethical issues related to genetics, reproductive medicine, feminism, disability studies and neurodiversity (autism, ADHD). Advancing Health Equity Through Microbiome-Centric and Multidisciplinary Research.(U-MaM…

Arts and Media Archaeology | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Speakers Edwin Carels Teacher, Researchers and Head of the Training Committee Programme at KASK & Conservatorium/HoGent As a teacher and researcher, Carels is affiliated with the School of Arts KASK/HoG…