Sebastian Haumann unpaid staff Research Sebastian Haumann Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise The project uses a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map how everyday practices changed in European cities under the pressure of deindustrialization between the 1960s and 1990s. It will su…

IQ-BRAIN search menu search content Work Package Leaders Prof. Dr. Rita Nunes Instituto Superior Técnico WP 1 - SPEED: accelerate qMRI acquisition and estimation Prof. Dr. Dirk Poot Erasmus MC WP 2 - TRUST: improve and substantiate trust in qMRI-derived metrics Dr. Ana-Maria Oros-Puesquens Forschun…

IQ-BRAIN search menu search content Objectives The overall mission of IQ-BRAIN is to bring qMRI to the clinic by improving and accelerating the technique through innovative development of trustworthy physics-informed Deep Learning (DL) methods, with neuroimaging as a key application area. To achieve…

Beyond The Genome search menu search content PhD Projects Charlotte Adams In the first year of her PhD, Charlotte Adams investigated post-translational modifications in virus-host protein-protein interactions using open modification searching. She then improved the identification of immunopeptides b…

Astrid Van den Branden predoc researcher FWO Research Astrid Van den Branden Research team Cell death signaling (CDS) Lipid peroxidation as a target to find innovative therapy for arterial media calcification: pre-clinical evaluation of novel membranous radical trapping molecules to halt this lethal…

Virtual technology for resilient fortification heritage search menu search content Virtual technology for resilient fortification heritage In close cooperation with Regionaal landschap de Voorkempen, Visual Dimension and the City of Antwerp, embedded within the RFC Interreg project, the Centre for U…

Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content PhD Anouk Smits Opportunities for improvement of oocyte quality in metabolically compromised conditions: from discoveries in the well until the development of preconception care strategies in an obese mouse model Anouk Smits, MSc, PhD…

Mikhaïl Van Herck unpaid staff Research Mikhaïl Van Herck Research team Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) The role of regulatory T cells and Th1/Th17/Th22 cells in the pathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis in mice and humans. 01/10…

Pierre Delsaerdt professor Research Pierre Delsaerdt Research team Centre for Urban History Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Expertise Historical study of the book: production techniques, design, publishing and the booktrade, libraries, cultures of collecting, books …

Annouk Lievens full professor - vice-dean Research Annouk Lievens Research team Marketing Expertise Multistakeholder innovation and value creation within services and sustainability contexts Advancing Health Equity Through Microbiome-Centric and Multidisciplinary Research.(U-MaMi). 01/01/2026 - 31/1…

Carolyn Declerck full professor Research Carolyn Declerck Research team Management Expertise Cooperation and conflict in social dilemmas, neuroeconomics Trust and distrust in multi-level governance: causes, dynamics, and effects (GOVTRUST). 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2025 Abstract Contemporary governance of…

Paid educational leave If you are a full-time or part-time employee (only in specific cases) in the private sector, you are entitled to be absent from work in order to follow a recognized study program through the paid educational leave system (in Dutch: ‘betaald educatief verlof’ or ‘BEV’).…

Anja Verhulst assistant professor - project coordinator Research Anja Verhulst Research team Cell death signaling (CDS) Expertise Cardiovascular disease and renal failure are strongly linked since patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) are more likely to die from cardiovascular co-morbidity than …

Rafael Berkvens tenure track asst. professor Research Rafael Berkvens Research team Internet Data Lab (IDLab) Expertise I want to understand what information is available about us and our environment by studying our wireless communication signals. This question already came to my mind during my Ph.D…

Hans Keune assistant professor - senior researcher Research Hans Keune Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise - Vast scientific expertise across disciplines in a wide variety of local, national and international projects: o He is a Po…

Sven Francque full professor - fund. clinical researcher Research Sven Francque Research team Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) Bench-to-bedside research into the role of regulated cell death and barrier dysfunction in inflammation (Infla-Med). 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2031 Abstract C…

Christophe Boone full professor Research Christophe Boone Research team Management Expertise Organization theory and behavior Cooperation in social dilemma's On the malleability of fairness norms: the role of social values, wise reasoning, power asymmetry, and inter-group conflict. 01/01/2020 - 31/1…

Law PhD defenses 2020 PhD defenses 2020 De toegankelijkheid van het socialebijstandsrecht voor de kwetsbare burger - Margot Van Leuvenhaege (16/12/2020) PhD defence Margot Van Leuvenhaege 16 december 2020 - 5 p.m. Supervisor: em. prof. dr. Bernard Hubeau Abstract Dit doctoraat behandelt de vraag naa…

Tom Vanden Berghe associate research professor Research Tom Vanden Berghe Research team Cell death signaling (CDS) Expertise Experimental focus 'Role of ferroptosis and inflammation in disease': Study role of cell death in organ failure and septic shock Study role of ferroptosis in multiple sclerosi…

Siegfried Denys professor Research Siegfried Denys Research team Antwerp engineering, PhotoElectroChemistry & Sensing (A-PECS) Expertise The main research focus is sustainable air purification using either advanced, emerging technologies (photocatalysis) or eco-technological solutions (using microor…

Pieter-Jan Guns associate professor Research Pieter-Jan Guns Research team Physiopharmacology (PHYSPHAR) Expertise Cardiovascular research with focus on investigating arterial stiffness (and its relation to atherosclerosis). SERPINA3 in cardiovascular disease: friend or foe? 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2025 …

Geert Van der Snickt associate research professor Research Geert Van der Snickt Research team Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Expertise Geert Van der Snickt received his Master in Conservation-Restoration in 2003 at the University of Antwerp.…

Jo Leroy professor Research Jo Leroy Research team Veterinary physiology and biochemistry Expertise On our laboratory we investigate the importance of maternal metabolic health on reproduction and fertility results. More specifically, we investigate the effect at the level of the oocyte and the pre-…

Maarten Van Acker professor Research Maarten Van Acker Research team Research Group for Urban Development Henry van de Velde Expertise Maarten Van Acker is an expert in infrastructure and urban planning. He is Professor of Urban Design at the master programs of Architecture and Urbanism and Spatial …

Marketing search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Eye tracking for consumer attention sensing. 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025 Abstract This project is situated in the area of Attention-Based Marketing, which is the relevant emerging subdiscipline of Marketing, employing Consumer Attention (CA)…