From exposome to effect assessment of contaminants in human and animal models (EXPOSOME)

• Toxicological Centre (TC)
• Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research (SPHERE)
• Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP)
• ZebrafishLab (ZFL)
• Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology (BECO)
• Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK, University of Hasselt)

• We are looking for you... The Toxicological Centre (TC) - Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences of the University of Antwerp and the Center for Environmental Health at the University of Hasselt are looking for a full-time PhD student for unravelling the role of environmental pollution on the microbiome-inflammation.
• ​We are looking for you... The Toxicological Centre (TC) - Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences of the University of Antwerp and the Department of Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at Ghent University are looking for a full-time PhD student for linking dietary exposome & microbiome-inflammation axis with metabolic disorders.
  
• We are looking for you... The Toxicological Centre (TC) - Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences and the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences - University of Antwerp are looking for a full-time PhD student in Analytical Toxicology (Human exposure to plasticizers leaching from plastic medical devices in Neonatal Intensive Care and impact on the long-term neurocognitive and pulmonary development).
• ​Michiel Bastiaensen was awarded the 2020 Prize Dr. and Mrs. D. Cuypers-Van Eeckhoudt for Environment and Health by the Executive Committee of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. Congratulations! His PhD thesis “Human biomonitoring of phosphate flame retardants and alternative plasticizers: from method development to exposure assessment”, carried out at the Toxicological Centre, was defended in December 2020.
• Prof. Adrian Covaci is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology - 2020.
  
• Master thesis available at SPHERE (Oct 2020 - Jun 2021): Evaluation of the performance of a novel in situ device for monitoring pollutants in water. Promotors: Dr. Elvio Amato, Prof. Dr. Ronny Blust.
• Due to the recent health safety measures put into effect at our university, the seminar "From GCxGC to LCxLC (and back)" by Prof. Tadeusz Górecki planned on 17th March 2020, CDE (room R-003), is postponed until a later date.
• Prof. Adrian Covaci is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology - 2019