Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Underground wood Surprising finding: roots keep growing in winter International team of scientists challenge long-held assumption that roots stop growing in winter When temperatures drop, the trunk and woody roots of trees stop growing. That was what …

Gert Thielemans researcher - guest professor Research Gert Thielemans Research team Centre for Population, Family and Health Expertise Gert Thielemans is currently working as a staff member in the start-up of the Belgian Online Probability Panel (BOPP). Specifically, his work focuses on the aspects …

Rebecca Ricifari unpaid staff Research Rebecca Ricifari Research team Private International Law and International Corporate Mobility: Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, merg…

Sietske Van den Wyngaert unpaid staff Research Sietske Van den Wyngaert Research team Centre for Urban History The pre-industrial transformation of boys' labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce? (1550 – 1800). 01/10/2018 - 30/09/2020 Abstrac…

Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucinska unpaid staff Research Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucinska Research team Centre for Philosophical Psychology Expertise This research aims to explore the potential of Enactivism for explaining pretending. Pretending is part of a common development of children, and belongs to our cu…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Hydrodynamics of gliding in the California sea lion Promoter: Sam Van Wassenbergh Co-promoter: Leonard Dewaele Subject: California sea lions are foreflipper-based swimmers, meaning they primarily generate thrust using their large, wing-like forelimbs.…

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh No trade-off between biting and suction performance It is generally assumed that biting performance trades off with suction performance in fish because both feeding types may place conflicting demands on the cranial musculo-skeleta…

Kim Maes unpaid staff Research Kim Maes Research team Management Information Systems (MIS) The use of IT value management practices in achieving financial firm performance for IT enabled investments. 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014 Abstract Strategic investments in information technology (IT) are pervasive …

Centre for Philosophical Psychology search menu search content Past projects Find below an exhaustive list of the research projects carried out at the CPP, listed per year of completion. Predictive Sensorimotor Theory: An Investigation Into Non-representationalist Solutions. 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2021 …

Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases search menu search content Book Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of individuals between mutu…

Elise Aerts researcher Research Elise Aerts Research team Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy A job offer you shouldn't refuse: towards a better understanding of financial work incentives and welfare-to-work transitions. 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Modern welfare states face a remarkable co…

Tanmay Dharmadhikari doctoral scholarship holder Research Tanmay Dharmadhikari Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Completing the family: characterizing viruses in rarely sampled vertebrate clades to update evolutionary histories of RNA virus families. 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025 Abstract R…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Plants shift to the west Nitrogen pollution relates to unexpected westward shift in European forest plants New research reveals nitrogen pollution, and to a lesser extent climate change, unexpectedly as the key driver behind surprising westward shifts…

Jessica Bots domain coordinator - guest prof. external funds Research Jessica Bots Research team The genetic and developmental basis of developmental buffering. 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2014 Abstract Buffering is the process that minimizes phenotypic variation arising from genetic and environmental pertur…

Geraldine Veeckmans predoc researcher FWO Research Geraldine Veeckmans Research team Cell death signaling (CDS) Ferroptosis monitoring and targeting in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury from mice to human. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Ferroptosis is an iron-catalyzed form of regulated cell death …

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content New inorganic structures and modulated materials New inorganic structures and modulated materials EMAT has established collaboration with many other groups worldwide performing advanced TEM and crystallography work on new inorganic…

Michèle Corthals teaching assistant Research Michèle Corthals Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History The Gender of Resistance: Discourses and practices of female resistance in Belgium during the Second World War. 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025 Abstract This research project aims to…

Law and Development search menu search content In memoriam: Koen De Feyter On 20 September 2024, Professor Koen De Feyter passed away. Unexpectedly. In his office. Koen was professor of public international law. He taught a range of courses on public international law, sustainable development, globa…

David Criekemans guest lecturer - associate professor - guest professor - guest prof. external funds Research David Criekemans Research team International Politics Writing a concise visionary document about Flanders and the future of the European Union 15/02/2016 - 30/04/2016 Abstract Assignment: wr…

Wouter Verheyen professor 03 Mobilog Wouter Verheyen Research plan: taking the wheel again In the last decade, mobility and logistics underwent system changes. The rise of platforms and social internet created the breeding place for a multiplicity of innovative business models such as e-commerce -tr…

Niki Danel predoc researcher FWO Research Niki Danel Research team Medical Biochemistry Understanding antibody-VSG interactions and early VSG expression patterns in the context of human African trypanosomiasis diagnosis. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by…

Farid Zahnoun postdoctoral scholarship hold. Research Farid Zahnoun Research team Centre for Philosophical Psychology Expertise Philosophical and conceptual analysis of the relevant scientific and philosophical literature on perception, and visual perception in particular. Beyond the Information Par…

Ulrike Van Daele associate professor - vice-dean Research Ulrike Van Daele Research team Movement Antwerp (MOVANT) Expertise Translational and clinical research in patients with burns and scars. Metabolic changes: Severe burned patients undergo rapid increases in metabolism (hypermetabolism) and inc…

Multidisciplinary Motor Centre Antwerp (M²OCEAN) search menu search content Research topics Research topics Research is performed in humans, from children to elderly, in physiological, pathological and specific conditions. Topics of interest are: Balance and Postural Control All motor skills requir…

Dajana Radujkovic unpaid staff - senior researcher Research Dajana Radujkovic Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise Microbial community analyses, analyses of the role of soil warming, climate, soil properties, and plants on microbial community assembly. A…