Freek Louckx associate professor Research Freek Louckx Research team Government and Law Expertise Prof. dr. Freek Louckx is a lawyer with skills in multiple areas of law, who specialized in legal developments in the field of fundamental social rights, social security (social insurance and social ass…

Global Engagement search menu search content I Shall not Hate 26 March | 18:30-21:00 Film screening Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish wrote a best-selling book in 2011 about his life in Gaza and the deaths of three of his daughters after an Israeli shell hit their bedroom in 2009, during the fir…

Thomas Machiels senior researcher - academic interim staff postdoc Research Thomas Machiels Research team Research Group for Urban Development Expertise As a researcher in urban planning, I am specialized in researching uncertainties and adaptive planning processes. In my PhD, I researched how real …

Global Health Institute search menu search content Malviya PARITOSH Management of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India Thesis summary Background and rationale Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar is a chronic infectious disease which poses a public health problem in the Indian sub…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic symposium: The Travelling Lantern (25/5/2018) DATE: 18 MAY 2018, 09:30-18:30 (+ evening programme screening film Saving Brinton at 20:30 at Cinema Zuid) VENUE: M HKA, museum of contemporary art Antwerp (auditorium), Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp Check the entire…

Stijn Verbeke assistant professor Research Stijn Verbeke Research team Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings Expertise Expert on energy performance of buildings regulations and modeling methods, part-time employed at both University of Antwerp and VITO. Developing methodologies and da…

Malika Dekkiche associate professor Research Malika Dekkiche Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise My area of expertise focuses the history of premodern Islamic world. More particularly, my research deals with the history of the contacts between Egypt, Syria, Turkey…

Law and Development search menu search content Koen De Feyter Memorial Lecture Series Wed 26/2 - Daniel Mathew, Balancing Scales: Human Rights Considerations in Investment Arbitration Guest speaker: Daniel Mathew (National Law University-Delhi) 26 February 2025, 5pm-7pm Room S.C. 002 or through live…

Iason Jongepier associate professor Research Iason Jongepier Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Historical GIS, Historical Cartgraphy, Spatial Humanities, Landscape history Researching historical maps of the Geopark Schelde Delta (Zwin) 15/09/2025 - 01/03/2026 Abstract The Geopark Sche…

It takes two to teach! Teacher collaboration for learning and teaching search menu search content Keynotes We are very proud to announce the following keynote speakers: Katrien Vangrieken – KU Leuven Professional Learning & Development, Corporate Training and Lifelong Learning (Belgium) Keynote pr…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Plenaries Plenary 01 | Ash Amin Space/Subject: Vernaculars of Endurance in Delhi's Slums and Streets P01 | WEDNESDAY 14 JULY 16:30-17:45 CEST This lecture is on how subjectivity is made in the dwelling of places. When habitat is acknowledged as an i…

DigHimaps search search content DigHimaps Digital Maps and Archives Activating Cartographic Collections in a Digital World For a long time cartographic collections have been cherished as objects of great value and beauty, illustrating the evolving representation of the world, the city or the landsca…

Politics & Public Governance search menu search content News Discover the latest news and updates about the Politics and Public Governance research group: new publications, activities and events, our members in the news,... 2025 30 Sep 2025 | New publication "Generative Content Analysis for Policy R…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Overview projects Ongoing projects Consultancy for the restart of the policy plan Flanders 26/05/2025 - 30/06/2026 Abstract This project involves providing academic guidance to the writing team of the Spatial Policy Plan Flanders within…

Tom Coppens full professor - vice-dean Research Tom Coppens Research team Research Group for Urban Development Expertise Prof dr. Tom Coppens holds a Master in Architectural Engineering (KU Leuven,1997), a master in urban planning and urbanism (KU Leuven 1999) and a PhD in architectural Engineering …

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 …

DiplomatiCon-net search menu search content Meet the Team! Isabella Lazzarini: From Italian Diplomacy to the Mediterranean When Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, a few years ago now, wrote to me asking me if I was interested in participating with them and Roser Salicrú I Lluch to a project on …

Tine Compernolle associate professor Research Tine Compernolle Research team Engineering Management Expertise Prof. dr. Tine Compernolle is FED-tWIN researcher. She currently holds a tenure track position at the University of Antwerp (50%) and is senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Belgium…

Amaryllis Audenaert full professor - vice-dean Research Amaryllis Audenaert Research team Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings Expertise The built environment is the result of a chain of materials, companies and people and their interaction. Therefore, defining sustainability in one …

Power in History search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Reclaiming the political sphere from the editorial margins: female journalists and their engagement with "the political" in the mainstream Parisian women's press (1815-1851). 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2028 Abstract This research proposal…

Ontwerpwetenschappen Doctoraten Woon een doctoraat bij of raadpleeg de voorbije verdedigingen Doctoraten Woon een doctoraat bij of raadpleeg de voorbije verdedigingen Designing Demonstrators: How to Communicate Complex Ideas with Artifacts - Aleksandra Sviridova (15/10/2025) Aleksandra Sviridova 15 …

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte Departement Wijsbegeerte Doctoraatsverdedigingen Departement Wijsbegeerte Doctoraatsverdedigingen Algoritmes oordelen: Een analyse van politieke subjectiviteit in algoritmische publieke ruimten met Arendt en postfenomenologie - Anthony Longo (19/06/2025) Anthony Longo Doctor…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Archive 2009.03 Wim Pelupessy, Joy De Los Reyes | Agrarian Reform in the Philippine Banana Chain Abstract The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) of 1986 had been the most far reaching postwar institutional change in rural Philippin…

Marcel Eens full professor Research Marcel Eens Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Expertise Evolutionary biological and Molecular ecological research. Field ecotoxicological and behavioural research in birds. PFAS systemic regional approach to Assess Spatial distribution, Transfer, E…

Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects Microbial modulators of the mind: A shotgun metagenomic approach to studying gut-behavior links in great apes. 01/04/2025 - 30/03/2026 Abstract The close phylogenetic relationship between bonobos (Pan…