Law and Development search menu search content Prof. Gamze Erdem Türkelli is awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grant for the project 'GENESIS' An ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant has been awarded to Prof. Gamze Erdem Türkelli's for her project ‘GENESIS’, in which she proposes to e…

Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography search menu search content A.A.C. 2010 A.A.C. 2010 Within our research institute, the Antwerp Center of Evolutionary Demography, we organize the first ACED Workshop on Team and Community Diversity. It will take place at September 23-24, 2010, at the cultural…

Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes TT. asst. research professor Research Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes Research team Business and Law Expertise International and comparative tax law and policy, development and sustainability, digital technology Duurzame vennootschapsbelasting: rekening houden met negatieve externe…

Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences Educational Commissions Educational Commissions The Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences has three Educational Commissions that represent the four fields of study: Pharmaceutical Sciences Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Bio…

Global Engagement search menu search content Small Research Projects 1. Call For research with a clear development and collaboration dimension, the University of Antwerp encourages budding academics to apply for the Small Research Projects research grant under the Global Minds programme. Small Resea…

Social Sciences Faculty Management Faculty Management At the head of the Faculty Management Team of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) is, since September 2024, Dean Sven De Maeyer. He is assisted by Vice-Dean Peter Van Aelst (in charge of "Service to Society"), Heidi Vandebosch (Research) and Pet…

ERC Starting Grants Trio gets European funding for ambitious projects Three UAntwerp scientists receive prestigious ERC Starting Grant The European Research Council grants are among the most prestigious sources of funding within scientific research. Three young scientists from UAntwerp are part of t…

Global Change Ecology search menu search content News 2025 Mitten crabs in Europe – What do we know so far? https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/global-change-ecology/news/2025/symposium-clancy/ New field guide for aquatic plants in Burundi https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/glob…

Esther van Zimmeren professor Research Esther van Zimmeren Research team Business and Law Government and Law Expertise Esther van Zimmeren has particular expertise in Intellectual Property (IP) law, in particular in patent law, IP governance, innovation policy, technology transfer, competition law, …

Tim Verdonck professor Research Tim Verdonck Research team Applied mathematics Expertise The development and application of machine learning techniques for (mainly) financial, actuarial and economic data sets. The development and application of robust statistics for anomaly detection. Tim Verdonck i…

Caroline Masquillier Research Caroline Masquillier Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Centre for Population, Family and Health Expertise I am a social scientist with a PhD in the domain of infectious diseases and organization of primary care. Currently, I am focussing o…

Sara Vicca associate professor Research Sara Vicca Research team Biobased sustainability engineering (SUSTAIN) Expertise I have a background in terrestrial ecology, terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycling, and ecosystem-climate change interactions. Currently, my research focuses on natural methods f…

Matteo Campioli associate research professor Research Matteo Campioli Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise My research aims to understand how terrestrial ecosystems function, especially to improve the ecosystem models used to simulate climate change. My …

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…

Ivan Janssens full research professor Research Ivan Janssens Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise - Greenhouse gas balance of ecosystems and continents. - Forest ecosystem productivity. - Carbon cycling through soil, ecosystem, region, continent, globe. …

Ivan Nijs full professor Research Ivan Nijs Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise Impact of climate change on plants and ecosystems, in particular the influence of climate extremes such as drought and heat. Role of biodiversity in ecosystems. Biological i…

Annick Schramme professor Research Annick Schramme Research team Management Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Expertise Cultural governance, both in Flanders and from a global perspective. In 2019 I published a book on "cultural governance from a global perspective". In recent years I h…

Jonas Schoelynck associate research professor Research Jonas Schoelynck Research team Ecosphere Expertise In my research I focus on the BIO in biogeochemistry. This means that I study the interaction of plants and animals with their environment, and in particular chemical and geomorphological proces…

Antwerp Tax Academy search menu search content Ongoing doctoral research Some of ATA's members are currently preparing a PhD. Below is a list of the doctoral research being carried out at the moment - click on a title to view a summary of the research. Unless indicated ontherwise, the research is co…

Erik Matthysen full professor Research Erik Matthysen Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Expertise - Evaluation of landscape connectivity. - Population viability analysisand genetic analysis of (natural) populations. Evolutionary potential of phenological and morphological responses to…

Applied Mathematics search menu search content Current Research Projects Ongoing projects Iterative subspace methods for constrained optimalisation problems. 01/11/2025 - 30/04/2026 Abstract Krylov subspace methods are highly effective in solving problems with sparse matrices at scale. Many large-sc…

Gerlinde Verbist guest professor - associate professor - senior research manager Research Gerlinde Verbist Research team Economics Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy Expertise Tax-benefit microsimulatiemodelling Sustainable Wellbeing through Investment in Social Services (SWINS). 01/02/2025 - 3…

Accountancy and Finance search menu search content ACF Research Seminars Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11.00h-12.00h, Christof Beuselinck (IESEG), - 12.00h-13.00h, Michiel Dierckx (UAntwerpen) Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11h – 13h. Room: S.ABC.402 Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp Program: 11.00h – 1…

Business and Law search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Regulating Traffic Conflicts in Urban Neighborhoods through Dynamic Data-Driven Solutions (Microreg). 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2028 Abstract Micromobility holds promises for improving zero emission urban mobility and increasing urban ac…

Government and Law search menu search content Projects Here you can find a chronological overview of the projects investigated by our research group. Ongoing projects Enhancing International Protection and Safeguards, through a Comparative Legal Approach, for Climate-Displaced Individuals Seeking Re…