SUSTAIN | Biobased Sustainability Engineering search menu search content Climate solutions Climate solutions Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces. In the Paris agreement, all countries committed themselves to limit the global warming to well below 2°C, aiming fo…

Translational Neurosciences search menu search content Research - Ophthalmology Research Since 2007, the Laboratory of Ophthalmology (UA) has collaborated with the Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine and the Department of Ophthalmology, UZA on the project “Translational research in o…

Transport and Regional Economics search menu search content TPR Chain Cost Model TPR Chain Cost was developed as a model that allows calculating the generalised chain cost from a selected point of origin, via a predefined container loop to destination point. The model was coded in C# and uses Micros…

Adelheid Ceulemans staff member research Research Adelheid Ceulemans Research team Theodore Van Ryswyck (1811-1849) and Literary Romanticism in Antwerp. 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2013 Abstract This project focuses on the function of literature in the modern nation-building process from a literary perspecti…

Katrien Lievois hoofddocent Publicaties Katrien Lievois « Un supporter professionnel des littératures africaines » : entretien avec Bernard Magnier Bron French studies in Southern Africa - ISSN 0259-0247-54:1 (2024) p. 152-167 Auteur(s) Katrien Lievois Citatielink Le pourquoi en traduction. Le ca…

Hanne Verbelen onderwijsbegeleider Publicaties Hanne Verbelen Pressure curves, static and dynamic stiffness of different two-component compression systems for the treatment of chronic edema of the lower limbs Bron Lymphatic research and biology - ISSN 1539-6851-20:3 (2022) p. 335-341 Auteur(s) Nick …

Condensed Matter Theory search menu search content Cover pages 2020 Magnetic field induced vortices in graphene quantum dots I R Lavor, D R da Costa, A Chaves, G A Farias, R Macêdo and F M Peeters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 155501 (2020) 2017 A. Volodin, C. Van Haesendonck, O. Leenae…

Julia Ramos González unpaid staff Research Julia Ramos González Research team Fundamental Mathematics Expertise My main field of study is category theory. More concretely, I analyse the interplay of category theory with algebraic geometry in order to approach the study of noncommutative algebraic …

Tribhuwan Pandey onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Tribhuwan Pandey Origins of heat transport anisotropy in MoTe₂ and other bulk van der Waals materials Bron Materials Today Physics - ISSN 2542-5293-37 (2023) p. 1-8 Auteur(s) Hongkun Li, Tribhuwan Pandey, Yi Jiang, Xiaokun Gu, Lucas Lindsay, Yee …

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content Imaging in 3 dimensions Imaging in 3 dimensions Modern TEM enables the investigation of nanostructures at the atomic scale. However, TEM images are only two-dimensional (2D) projections of a three-dimensional (3D) object. 3D imagin…

Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content SAFESILK: Understanding, preventing and treating metal salt-induced silk degradation in heritage collections Manufacture of textiles, including both production and dyeing of fabrics, has been one of Western Europe most important industria…

Movement Antwerp search menu search content Post-surgical Scars and Their Impact on Patients A Holistic Approach in Clinical Practice By: Jill Meirte, MOVANT Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy (REVAKI), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium; Oscare, a research …

Biophysics and Biomedical Physics search menu search content Tympanic membrane motion Animations of the tympanic membrane motion at different frequencies. The three animantions in figure 1 show tympanic membrane motion at respectively 1 kHz, 7 kHz and 16 kHz. Note that the displacements are highly e…

Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene search menu search content Principle behind ReViRAnt We have built our expertise focusing on RSV-infected children. As a result, we were able to show remarkable differences regarding growth kinetics, temperature stability, and neutralization by t…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Facilities The PPES lab has standard access to two university facilities, allowing for frequent measurement on up-to-date instrumentation. Pyrosequencing (SNP, CpG) Bisulfite sequencing is the use of bisulfite treatment of DNA to determine its pattern …

Sam Van Wassenbergh TT. asst. research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Introduction: jaw muscle hypertrophy in clariid catfish Within the family Clariidae or air breathing catfishes, several species have developed unusually large (hypertrophied) jaw closing muscles. The extremely hypertrophied morphs …

Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry search menu search content Surface analysis: imaging TOF-S-SIMS can visualise the chemical composition of a surface in a secondary ion (SI) image. The spectral information of each point is stored. The color of the pixels is dependent of the measured SI yie…

Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry search menu search content Depth profiling: ultra low angle microtomy Molecular depth profiling by ion beam erosion still deals with some bottlenecks such as the depth dependence of the SI yield, sputter induced topography, anisotropic erosion, limited dep…

Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene search menu search content Respiratory viruses Respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and variable disease severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide. Respiratory viru…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content EELS to the extreme EELS to the extreme Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) is based on the inelastic scattering of high energy electrons in materials. The energy loss of the primary electrons passing through the sample is mea…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content Magnetism in materials Magnetism in materials Magnetic materials rely on the ordering of the magnetic moments of their constituent atoms which leads to a specific response of the material when applying e.g. an external field. Many …

Biophysics and Biomedical Physics search menu search content 3D Tympanoscope 3D Tympanoscope UPDATE (29/07/2020): A European patent application ‘METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING A 3D MAP OF AN EARDRUM’ was published on July 29, 2020 under publication n° EP3685729. https://worldwide.espacenet.…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content EDX of trace elements EDX of trace elements When atoms in a material are excited by the interaction with the fast electrons in an electron microscope, they emit characteristic X-rays. The detection and analysis of these X-rays is t…

Electron microscopy for materials science search menu search content Carbon based materials Carbon based materials Carbon-based materials have captured broad interest in the materials science community for decades. Carbon is an extremely light and versatile material that, depending on the local bond…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content UCSIA/IJS Chair 2022-2023: Prof. Dr. David Lloyd Dusenbury For the fifteenth edition of the Chair, UCSIA and the Institute of Jewish Studies have invited Professor David Lloyd Dusenbury (Danube Institute Budapest / Eötvös Loránd University) t…