Ine Hoeben predoc researcher FWO Research Ine Hoeben Research team Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) Evolution of invasive Salmonella Typhimurium: exploring horizontal gene transfer and its usage for ancestral reconstruction. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) pla…

Evolutionary Ecology Group - EVECO search menu search content Biological diversity How “Supergenes” Help Fish Evolve into New Species Cichlid fish research helps an international research team led by the University of Antwerp to unlock the secret of biological diversity Why are there so many dif…

Julia Camacho Garcia unpaid staff Research Julia Camacho Garcia Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Understanding the role of old genomic variation in rapid adaptation. 01/04/2019 - 31/03/2023 Abstract The 100s of closely related but ecologically diverse species of Lake Malawi cichlid f…

Daan Laméris unpaid staff Research Daan Laméris Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Expertise Multi-componential approaches to study great ape emotions using cognitive (e.g. Stroop effect, response slowing effect, explicit attention biases), behavioural (e.g. abnormal behaviours, sel…

Jeroen Stevens unpaid staff Research Jeroen Stevens Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Comparative psychology of positive emotions: A multi-componential approach to understand affective states in man's closest living relative, the bonobo. 01/11/2019 - 31/10/2023 Abstract Similar to hu…

Sandra Van Puyvelde associate professor - guest professor Research Sandra Van Puyvelde Research team Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) Expertise Prof. Sandra Van Puyvelde joined the Laboratory of Medical Microbiology at UA as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She received her MSc and PhD degree…

Anthony Herrel unpaid staff Research Anthony Herrel Research team Functional Morphology Analysis of shape-function relations in complex muscular-sceletal systems using computer modeling and measurement of mechanical stress and strain distributions. 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2012 Abstract Darwin's finches (…

Oscar Gelderblom full research professor Research Oscar Gelderblom Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Financial History and Social and Economic History of The Netherlands and Belgium from 1500 to the Presents History of Trade and Finance in Europe before the Industrial Revolution (1200…

Joris Dirckx emeritus with assignment Research Joris Dirckx Research team Expertise dedicated optical measuring techniques for biomechanics, such as digital image correllation, digital holography, laser doppler interferometry modeling of biomechanical systems using finite elements functioning of the…

Peter Aerts emeritus with assignment Research Peter Aerts Research team Functional Morphology Expertise Kinesiological analyses. Belgian Alliance for Biomechanics. 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2029 Abstract The Belgian Alliance for Biomechanics (BAB) originates from the fundamental belief that the science of …

Hannes Svardal associate research professor Research Hannes Svardal Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Expertise My main expertise is evolutionary genomic analysis of whole-genome sequencing data. I have been working on a variety of organisms including plants, monkeys and fishes. We al…

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…

Tim Soens full professor Research Tim Soens Research team Centre for Urban History Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise Tim Soens is an expert in Landscape and Environmental history, with specific emphasis on - climate history (Little Ice Age to Anthropocene) - coastal and river…

VAXINFECTIO search menu search content Projects List of research projects lead by VAXINFECTIO members In the following section, you can find all research projects, split up per research group. Many projects are executed by a collaboration between several VAXINFECTIO research groups. The projects are…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects Functional morphology. 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2030 Abstract As a researcher at the Laboratory for Functional Morphology, I study how the anatomy and mechanical properties of animal bodies are adapted to the functions the…

Evolutionary Ecology Group - EVECO search menu search content Research Projects in the UAntwerp database Ongoing projects Computationally efficient model-based inference of speciation 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract The astonishing biodiversity we observe today is the result of speciation. Reproduc…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examine…