Thies Gehrmann senior researcher Research Thies Gehrmann Research team Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (LAMB) Investigating the impact of urban-associated factors on the skin microbiome. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Urbanization is a key global trend. Despite its many advant…

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…

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 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…

Jeroen Hoffbauer postdoc researcher FWO Research Jeroen Hoffbauer Research team Center for European Philosophy Authenticity as a Political Ideal. Reinterpreting the Political Value of Appeals to Authenticity. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Over the past three decades, authenticity has emerged as a…

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…

Margo Hiel predoc researcher FWO Research Margo Hiel Research team Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (LAMB) Investigating the impact of urban-associated factors on the skin microbiome. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Urbanization is a key global trend. Despite its many advantages…

Astrid Van den Branden 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 disorder. 01/11/2021 …

Primary education Learning outcomes Learning outcomes 1. The Master has a specialised and research-based knowledge of and insight in teaching methodologies specific to primary education, with special attention to language development and the development of mathematical thinking. The Master translate…

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…

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…

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…

Center for European Philosophy search menu search content Workshop: "Political Philosophy in German Idealism: Freedom, Drive and Will" 19 December 2025 Programme 2PM: Juan José Rodríguez (Charles University): Freedom and Right Beyond Autonomy: Schelling’s Concept of Will in the New Deduction of …

Jessy Elst postdoc researcher FWO Research Jessy Elst Research team Expertise After completing my biomedical education with specialization in clinical sciences at the University of Antwerp in 2017, I worked on and completed my PhD project at the University of Antwerp in the laboratory of Immunology …

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Basic as well as applied research on mechanisms, treatment and prevention of cell death-driven diseases, with focus on ferroptosis (kind of biological rust). We follow an integrated approach from knowledge building and discovery to (pre)clinical resear…

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 …

Irina Spacova tenure track asst. professor Research Irina Spacova Research team Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (LAMB) Expertise Prof. Spacova investigates beneficial microorganisms found at the interface between the human body and the environment, especially in nature, the huma…

Herbert De Vriese associate professor Research Herbert De Vriese Research team Center for European Philosophy Expertise History of philosophy: nineteenth-century German philosophy, with a focus on Hegel, the Young Hegelians and the Young Marx. Themes from the philosophy of culture: secularisation, d…

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…

Michiel Meijer assistant professor - senior researcher Research Michiel Meijer Research team Center for European Philosophy Expertise I studied philosophy from 2006 to 2010 at Tilburg University, Leiden University, and Radboud University Nijmegen. I completed my FWO-funded PhD in 2016 with a dissert…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Socrates in the lecture hall. Reflecting through philosophical questions. April 2025 Reflection is essential for learning, but in the lecture hall it doesn’t always work well. Students can hesitate to express their opinions for fe…

Carolyn Declerck full professor Research Carolyn Declerck Research team Management Expertise Cooperation and conflict in social dilemmas, neuroeconomics OBIDE - The Oxytocin Brain Imaging Data Exchange Consortium for fMRI Data Sharing. 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2029 Abstract The overarching goal of the OBI…

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 associate 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…