‘This “transfer” shows the impact of our university’ ‘This “transfer” shows the impact of our university’ Prof. Silvia Lenaerts of University of Antwerp becomes new rector in Eindhoven Prof. Silvia Lenaerts, vice-rector of UAntwerp, becomes the new rector magnifica of Eindhoven Unive…

Orange Your University UAntwerp shows its colours in the fight against sexual assault On 25 November 2021, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, our Middelheim Campus will be coloured orange. By doing so, our university shows its solidarity for the worldwide campaign a…

VAXINFECTIO search menu search content Antibiotics are becoming less and less effective in newborns, resulting in death UAntwerp research shows that antibiotics fail to save almost 1 in 4 newborns with blood poisoning If you get a bacterial infection, the doctor will prescribe antibiotics. But what …

B-MAGIC search menu search content Magic Lantern in Popular Entertainment Postdoc: JONCKHEERE Evelien (UA) | Supervisor: VANHOUTTE Kurt (UA) Alongside theatre venues and lecture halls, magic lantern projections were also often integrated into spectacular attractions at different kinds of popular cul…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content To infinity and beyond 13/12/2022 - Charles (ESR #9) The image on the flyer shows the distribution of a specific lipid (highlighted in red) in immune cells (macrophages) using Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI). The left image shows the MSI image, …

Global Change Ecology search menu search content Carbon sequestration at risk Carbon sequestration at risk of destabilization in large regions of the world A study led by researchers of the University of Antwerp and the Catalan Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) shows that …

Arts and Media Archaeology | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Public keynote Annie van den Oever "BOEM! or Experimental media archaeological reflections on re-enactment and “crazy” avant-garde performances as part of media history" Date: 27 Aug. 2024 Time: 4.3…

Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content Egg cels and your diet Your egg cell feels what you eat UAntwerp study shows that high-fat and high-sugar diets lower egg cell quality For some time, fertility centres have been reporting that obese women have a harder time getting pr…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Panel recordings Panels 1-7 PANEL 1 – Intermedial Aspects of Lantern Practice Chair: Frank Kessler 01:30 Ivo Blom – The Rome of Gerome 15:15 Artemis Willis – Lanternology 29:03 Massimiliano Gaudiosi – Virtual Tours of Pompeii in Magic Lantern Show 48:15 Q&A…

Applied Engineering Prof. Helmut Rechberger Honorary degree in Applied Engineering 2022 Prof. Helmut Rechberger Honorary degree in Applied Engineering 2022 Prof. Helmut Rechberger received on Wednesday 30 March the honorary degree from the Faculty of Applied Engineering in recognition of his experti…

Siemen Herremans predoc researcher FWO Research Siemen Herremans Research team Internet Data Lab (IDLab) Safer model-based reinforcement learning for motion planning in autonomous inland shipping. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Currently, there is much research in the field of autonomous navigatio…

Results course evaluations first semester 2023-2024 Students at UAntwerp are regularly invited to participate in course evaluations. This allows them to give feedback on the teaching in the courses. The purpose of these evaluations is to enable both lecturers and our university to monitor and contin…

Research Group MIOS search menu search content Online violence ‘Young people in Belgium regularly commit and fall victim to online violence’ Study shows young people do not know how to respond or where to find support Researchers from the University of Antwerp, UCLouvain and the Université Sain…

Arts and Media Archaeology | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Public keynote Sofie Lachapelle "Science on and for the Stage: From Street Fairs and Magic Shows to the Theatres and Opera Houses of 19th-Century Paris" Date: 4 Sept. 2023 Time: 4.00 - 5.00 pm Location:…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Numerical simulation 02/06/2021 - Sara (ESR #8) In the poster, you see pressure signals obtained from in silico modelling in different conditions, i.e. in a compliant (healthy) and stiff (aged) blood vessel. The picture shows P0 (blue), which is…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Wetenschap Centraal: Spectacular Science at the Fair 14 December 2022 - Permeke library Date: Wed. 14 December 2022 Time: 19h30-22h Location: Permeke Library, De Coninckplein 25-26, 2060 Antwerp Free admission. Register via www.permeke.org Watch th…

Food, Media and Society search menu search content Publications 2021 Exploring adolescents’ motives for food media consumption using the theory of uses and gratifications Ngqangashe, Y., Maldoy, K., De Backer, C. J., & Vandebosch, H. (2021). Exploring adolescents’ motives for food media consumpt…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances WP2 'Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances' will focus on public lectures and performances and their locations. PhD 2 will use GIS (geographic information system) technolo…

Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine - ANTwerp search menu search content Is leven op de rode planeet binnenkort mogelijk? Persbericht Research group Plasmant finds the way of producing oxygen, fuel and the basis of fertilizer on Mars. A team of chemists discovered that Marsatm…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Climate change likely to accelerate Natural climate buffers feeling effects of higher temperatures, UAntwerp biologists find. Ecosystems like forests sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide and therefore help to slow down global warming. These ecosy…

Science at the Fair search menu search content Panorama, Diorama and Cosmorama Performing History and Geography Postdoc: Bart G. Moens This subproject will study how showpeople appropriated images from around the world and in what ways they contributed to a growing visual literacy amongst ordinary p…

Suzanne Roes unpaid staff Research Suzanne Roes Research team Center for Ethics Putting arrogance in its place. Do we need to revalue or reform the concept of arrogance? 01/11/2022 - 31/10/2023 Abstract Arrogance has been understood as an attribute of people and sometimes as an attribute of an act. …

Science at the Fair search menu search content Spectacular Bodies Performing Anatomy, Medicine and Anthropology PhD: Gitte Samoy | Supervisor: Nele Wynants | Co-supervisor: Marjan Doom This subproject will focus on the question to what extent ideas about the sane or the ‘normal’ body, but also m…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic symposium: The Travelling Lantern (25/5/2018) DATE: 18 MAY 2018, 09:30-18:30 (+ evening programme screening film Saving Brinton at 20:30 at Cinema Zuid) VENUE: M HKA, museum of contemporary art Antwerp (auditorium), Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp Check the entire…

Johanna Ferket unpaid staff Research Johanna Ferket Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. 01/10/2017 - 31/07/2019 Abstract 'Hy dw…