Study progress monitoring The university actively monitors your study progress to ensure that you avoid unnecessary delays in your studies and thus losing learning credits. If you fail to accumulate an adequate number of credits in an academic year, you will be included in the study progress monitor…

Johan Saenen unpaid guest prof. Research Johan Saenen Research team Cardiovascular diseases (CARDIOVASC) New and safer tools to cure cardiac arrhythmias through genetic-manipulation-free photothermal stimulation and enhanced photothermal ablation of cardiomyocytes. 01/01/2019 - 31/10/2019 Abstract C…

Pieter De Graef unpaid staff Research Pieter De Graef Research team Centre for Urban History Buying more with less income? Household production and changing consumer preferences in the smallholding economy of inland Flanders during the 18th century in the light of the Industrious Revolution debate. …

Global Health Institute search menu search content Geofrey MUSINGUZI Epidemiology, awareness, health seeking behaviour and capacity of health systems to deal with Hypertension in a Ugandan rural context Thesis summary Background The burden of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa is substa…

Tammo Wallinga unpaid guest prof. Research Tammo Wallinga Research team Business and Law Expertise Roman Law and its reception, especially editions of medieval source material. Bringing company law (back) to the future: commercial partnerships between flexibility and asset shielding (17th-18th, and …

Lieselotte Van Bockstal principal research fellow Research Lieselotte Van Bockstal Research team Comparative Perinatal Development (CoPeD) Expertise translational research to study human gastro-intestinal diseases The hippocampus as key to study sex differences in the neurodevelopment of IUGR piglet…

Clara García i Co predoc researcher FWO Research Clara García i Co Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Behavioural and cognitive effects of an adverse early social environment: towards a better understanding of the adaptive significance and transgenerational transmission. 01/11/2022 …

Ilya T'Jollyn TT. asst. research professor Research Ilya T'Jollyn Research team Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings Expertise Reducing the energy use in buildings is essential to reach carbon neutrality and combat the effects of climate change. Traditional energy systems in building…

Personal Rights and Property Rights search menu search content Personality rights Research leaders: Thierry Vansweevelt & Kristof Vanassche Overview Personality rights protect everyone’s body, thoughts, feelings, and behaviour in their relationship with other citizens. In that respect, they are pr…

Personal Rights and Property Rights search menu search content Redefining kinship Research leaders: Frederik Swennen, Elise Goossens & Mariano Croce Short text This research line is embedded in the FWO Scientific Research Network RETHINKIN (Rethinking Legal Kinship & Family Studies in the Low Countr…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Florian VOGT Operational challenges during the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa Thesis summary Tremendous progress has been made in the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in recent years thanks to better and cheaper dru…

Kim Van Hoorenbeeck assistant professor Research Kim Van Hoorenbeeck Research team Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) Expertise Pediatric pulmonology: asthma, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, BPD, infections, sleep related breathing disorders Obesity and metabolic syndrome in chi…

Diversity and inclusion search menu search content D&I Reflection Tool Reflection Tool for Diversity-sensitive & Inclusive Communication and Action Diversity-sensitive and inclusive communication is important, as it makes it possible to reach a larger target group. But what exactly should you keep i…

Christiaan Vrints emeritus occasional assignment Research Christiaan Vrints Research team INFLA-MED - Fundamental research in the pathophysiological processes of inflammatory diseases. 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2019 Abstract The Infla-Med consortium performs fundamental research on the pathophysiological p…

Hilde Philips associate professor - senior researcher Research Hilde Philips Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Social Epidemiology & Health Policy (SEHPO) Expertise Our research topics of interest are: - triagesystems in primary care - organisation and continuity of ca…

CoPeD search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects The hippocampus as key to study sex differences in the neurodevelopment of IUGR piglets. 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025 Abstract Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) describes a pathological condition in which the fetus fails to grow to its biolo…

Rechten Doctoraten 2019 Raadpleeg de voorbije verdedigingen Doctoraten 2019 Raadpleeg de voorbije verdedigingen Mens rea in EU Antitrust Law: when intentions matter - Jan Blockx (17/12/2019) Jan Blockx 17 december 2019 Promotoren: Prof. Anne-Marie Van den Bossche en Prof. Gert Straetmans Abstract Th…

Frank Kooy emeritus with assignment Research Frank Kooy Research team Medical Genetics (MEDGEN) Expertise We have decades of expertise in the discovery of novel genetic intellectual disability and autism . disorders. For some of these disorders, we have performed deep-phenotyping in large patient co…

Dirk Snyders emeritus with assignment Research Dirk Snyders Research team Experimental Neurobiology Unit (ENU) Expertise Electrophysiological analysis and Patch clamp. Elucidating the pathogenicity of genetic variants of uncertain significance in Brugada syndrome patients by functional modelling in …

Kris Van Alsenoy emeritus occasional assignment Research Kris Van Alsenoy Research team Expertise Calculation of molecular properties using quantum chemical methods. Development of new exchange-correlation functionals and introduction of fractional occupation numbers in KS-DFT. 01/10/2009 - 30/09/20…

Bruno Blondé full professor Research Bruno Blondé Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Historical statistics - Material culture and consumption research - Urban History - Social and economic history - Transportation History - History of the Low Countries - Research Policy The embarrass…

Dirk De Bièvre professor Research Dirk De Bièvre Research team International Politics Politics & Public Governance Expertise International cooperation International climate cooperation European integration International trade policy Trade wars Trade policy of the European Union, the United States …

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…

Wendt Müller associate research professor Research Wendt Müller Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Expertise Movement Ecology: studying foraging behaviour, migration and parental care. Behavioural Ecology: using natural populations and field-based research to investigate the effects…

Peter Van Petegem full professor Research Peter Van Petegem Research team EduBROn Expertise Counselling for teachers, schools, colleges, and universities with respect to innovation processes, and quality assurance Instrument Development and evaluation research Education for Sustainable Development, …