Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content Ongoing PhD project February 2019 - present Stimulating the development and professionalization of high-tech entrepreneurs Abstract In a fast-changing environment, it is difficult to create, let alone grow, entrepreneurial firms…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Bart Decroos 2017 - 2023 The Ecological Sensibility: Between Ruskin and Banham Promotor: Lara Schrijver Contemporary architecture seems to be increasingly described as sustainable, circular, re-usable, environmentally friendly or carbon hostile, as being…

Philip Plaeke unpaid staff Research Philip Plaeke Research team Antwerp Surgical Training, Anatomy and Research Centre (ASTARC) Therapeutic modulation of the neuroimmune crosstalk at the leaky gastrointestinal border during sepsis; a translational study. 01/08/2016 - 31/07/2018 Abstract Sepsis, defi…

Thomas van Es unpaid staff Research Thomas van Es Research team Centre for Philosophical Psychology Predictive Sensorimotor Theory: An Investigation Into Nonrepresentationalist Solutions. 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2021 Abstract The theoretical environment in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences is diff…

Get to know UAntwerp search menu search content Master of Business Economics James | Australia 'I feel supported by my professors. They make international students feel welcome' Why I chose to study at UAntwerp I was looking at universities in Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven and UAntwerp was the one that …

Biochemical Wastewater Valorization and Engineering search menu search content Research projects Catalytic detoxification of lignocellulosic hydrolysate - PhD Valentin Sóti Lignocellulose-ethanol conversion is an interesting and intensely researched area of biochemical engineering. The need for an …

Cedric Jenart tenure track asst. professor Research Cedric Jenart Research team Government and Law Expertise My expertise can be described as public law in general, which includes constitutional law (state institutions, human rights and federalism) and administrative law (e.g. the Council of State).…

Research Group Product Development search menu search content Masterclass in Systemic Design 11-12 June 2024 What? The increase in complex problems necessitates a shift away from the exclusively reductionist approach that predominates our worldview. In design, this realisation has led to the rise of…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Communities of Disagreement Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought International Workshop September 12–15, 2024 The Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought is an annual intellectual encounter, which explores ways of how the Talmudic t…

Cosys-Lab search menu search content Verificiation and Validation of Embedded Systems It seems straightforward to design complex mechatronic systems, such as machines and vehicles, by the divide-and-conquer paradigm: simply split its complexity into different disciplines and different engineering te…

European Philosophy and Jewish Tradition search menu search content Talmud and Contemporary Thought: Communities of Disagreement International workshop September 12–15, 2024 The Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought is an annual intellectual encounter, which explores ways of how the Talmudic…

Greenoffice search menu search content Heerlijk verbeeld (Honestly imagined) November 13th @ CST R.201 How democratic is international climate policy? Imagine a world where every voice, no matter how small, is heard and participates in determining the direction of climate policy. This is precisely t…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Ionas Sklavounos Bio Ionas graduated in Architecture at the University of Patras in Greece and completed his post-graduate studies in Epistemology of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. During that time he worked as Teaching Assi…

Diversity and inclusion search menu search content Prides and gender diversity On diplomacy, patience and hope The state of the union of the LGBTQIA+ movement in 2021 is worrying. There seems to be a reversal of the progressive trend of several decades in Europe. Is this a fundamental turnaround or …

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Infrastructure & Mobilities The daily traffic jams, the debate about air quality, the systematic discussions about environmental conflicts whenever a new infrastructure project is launched: all these symptoms point out that the remodell…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Women in Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Performances and Displays This subproject of Science at the Fair examines a neglected aspect of the social, cultural and artistic role of women in fairground communities and their impact on the circulatio…

Philosophy and Society | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Programme 2023 Stories of Illness and Health Stories of Illness and Health. Illness uproots one's certainties, and therefore seems to ask for a new life narrative. While not everyone feels the need to tell …

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 …

Research Centre for Visual Poetics search menu search content Intermedial Poetics Intermedial Poetics Inside the Image. Immersion, Theatricality and Narrative in Performance and Media Art Research project Fellow: Wynants Nele Principal investigator: Vanhoutte Kurt Tag: Intermedial Poetics Duration: …

Institute of Development Policy Nasser Road: political posters in Uganda by Kristof Titeca Nasser Road: political posters in Uganda by Kristof Titeca Nasser Road, Kampala: nicknamed Uganda’s Silicon Valley. This street is a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud. From…

Antwerp Doctoral School search menu search content How to deal with media and journalists as a researcher Competence category E: Communication skills Content Science is thoughtful, complex and ongoing, while media want clear and short messages with some news value. Given that tension, it’s quite a…

Maxime Castermans predoc researcher FWO Research Maxime Castermans Research team Personal Rights and Property Rights The best interests of trans and intersex minors in gender-affirming and sex-normalising treatment: a comparative and human rights analysis. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract The interp…

Yannick De Meulder unpaid staff Research Yannick De Meulder Research team Centre for Urban History The ways to Success. Strategies and Trajectories of the Commercial elites in the Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century. 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2017 Abstract Historians have long believed that the ult…

Yousra El Ouaamari doctoral scholarship holder Research Yousra El Ouaamari Research team Laboratory for Experimental Hematology (LEH) Engaging the immune system for remyelination in the brain using BDNF-engineered regulatory T cells. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2024 Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neur…

Nina Dirkx researcher Research Nina Dirkx Research team VIB CMN - Applied and Translational Neurogenomics The silence of the mutant: towards a targeted therapy for KCNQ2-encephalopathy. 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022 Abstract KCNQ2-encephalopathy (KCNQ2-E) is a subtype of severe epilepsy, characterized by …