Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography search menu search content Doctoral defense Ellen Loots Doctoral defense Ellen Loots Title Performance evaluations in the arts: evidence from the Netherlands and Flanders. Promotors Prof. dr. Arjen van Witteloostuijn, University of Antwerp Prof. dr. Annick S…

André Klaassen researcher Research André Klaassen Research team Centre for Urban History Welfare Metropolis: transport integration and regional fragmentation in Greater Stockholm Region. 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2025 Abstract The turn of the 19th century saw the dawn of a welfare revolution across Weste…

Sofia Pérez Fernández Research Sofia Pérez Fernández Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise My primary focus in research revolves around a functional and usage-based perspective on language. I am particularly interested in variation across geographical regions and the interaction between…

Pedro Gras associate professor Research Pedro Gras Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise 1. Linguistics Analysis Analysis and description of grammatical phenomena, especially in the grammar/discourse interface (discourse markers, reference markers, conversation structure). 2. Foreign langua…

Law and Development search menu search content Law & Dev researchers host roundtable in Bogotá: Ports and Mega infrastructures: Regulatory and Socio-environmental Regulatory Challenges in Colombia Background Officially launched in June 2023, the FWO ContainerHaven project is led by the University o…

Johan van der Auwera emeritus occasional assignment Publications Johan van der Auwera If you have trouble getting hold of any of these publications, drop me a line. September 2025 Accepted JvdA "Negation", International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 3rd Edition. Ed. by H. Nesi & P. Milin…

Fergus Simpson unpaid staff Research Fergus Simpson Research team Development processes, actors and policies Unpacking the multiple-levels of an 'extractive imperative': evidence from the DRC's Okapi Faunal Reserve. 01/04/2025 - 30/03/2026 Abstract This project offers a novel perspective on the 'ext…

Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series search menu search content Literature and Migration in Europe since the 1950s Project Directors: Myriam Geiser Département d’allemand Université de Grenoble, France Jeanne E. Glesener Institut de langue et de littératures luxembour…

University Foundation for Development Cooperation (USOS) search menu search content Climate as Cover: Green Colonialism Tuesday 14 October 2025, from 18.30 to 20.30 at Stadscampus (R.002) Rodestraat 14 Antwerpen Sign up for this session As the climate and ecological crises intensify, governments and…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Doctorates The following doctoral dissertations have been completed by members of GaP or under the guidance of a member of the GaP team: 2025, TOM KOSS: "The Present Perfective Paradox: A Typological Study of Present-Time Markers" (supervisors: Astri…

Frank Brisard professor Research Frank Brisard Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise My research is primarily informed by a cognitive-functional and usage-based approach to language, combined with a pragmatic focus on the analysis of actual language in use, mainly via the use of corpora. My…

Johan van der Auwera emeritus occasional assignment Research Johan van der Auwera Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise Description and explanation of elements of grammar (English, Germanic languages, European languages, all languages) Explaining the dominance of postverbal negation in Sout…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Space is the place. Workshop (22/11/2019) Mapping Visual Media & the Geospatial Turn DATE: 22 November 2019, 09:00 - 21:30 VENUE: University of Antwerp, Stadscampus, building SR (SR.008), Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen B-magic and the Centre for Urban History (Unive…

Greet De Block professor Research Greet De Block Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Greet De Block is an engineer-architect and urban planner. Her teaching and writing focus on infrastructure as driving force of urbanization, advancing an interdisciplinary approach linking urbanism wit…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Profiling L2 English Writing: Crafting Learner Corpus-Derived Descriptor Scales for Functional Adequacy, Accuracy, Syntactic Complexity, and Lexical Diversity. 01/12/2025 - 30/11/2029 Abstract This project offers a novel, mu…

International Design Workshop Week search menu search content Workshops #1 (t)Active Routes by Stijn Rybels “tactive”| adjective; engaged in active travel through tactical interventions MAPPING THE ROUTES; ACTIVE TRAVEL FROM A CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE Children are faced with a number of spatial (an…

Marleen Verhoye professor Research Marleen Verhoye Research team Bio-Imaging lab Expertise Acquisition and processing of high resolution in vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of small animals: diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), functional MRI, resting state fMRI, perfusio…

Steven Van Passel full research professor - vice-rector Research Steven Van Passel Research team Engineering Management Expertise (i) Techno-economic assessments (TEA) of emerging green/clean environmental & energy technologies; prospective assessments towards a sustainable and/or circular economy (…

Business and Economics Doctoral research Doctoral research Ongoing doctoral research (alphabetical order) Name PhD student Title research Supervisor(s) Abdelshafy Mahira Disruption Management in the Port Industry: Empirical Analysis on The Role of Emerging Technologies Sys Christa, Rashed Yasmine Ab…

Bio-Imaging Lab search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Assessing the impact of somatic instability modulation on the functional integrity of the dopaminergic system in Huntington's disease. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable hereditary neurodegen…

Engineering Management search menu search content Research projects Ongoing projects Antwerp Center on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (ACRAI) 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2031 Abstract Albert Einstein once stated: "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." This insig…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Paper Sessions Preliminary Programme Overview Parallel Paper Sessions (pdf - 1618kb) 1. (Dis)Cohesion as sense of urbanity (Dis)cohesion as sense of urbanity PS001 | THURSDAY 15 JULY, 14:00-15:30 CEST Peter Dirksmeier – Leibniz Universität Hannov…

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…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. 01/12/2025 - 31/12/2026 Abstract Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. This project inves…