Kevin Van Sundert postdoc researcher FWO Research Kevin Van Sundert Research team Biobased sustainability engineering (SUSTAIN) Expertise My research domain concerns interactions between land ecosystems and climate change, in both directions (through for example impacts on CO2-exchange). Focus is sp…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Biogeochemical cycles Ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling, modelling, laboratory experiments Plants are the engine pumping carbon into and water out of ecosystems. At ecosystem scale, photosynthesis is mainly climate-controlled. The biomass producti…

Sara Vicca associate professor Research Sara Vicca Research team Biobased sustainability engineering (SUSTAIN) Expertise My research focuses on how different environmental factors influence carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems and how changes in these ecosystems feed back to the climate system. …

Thierry Backeljau emeritus occasional assignment Research Thierry Backeljau Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Expertise My research focusses on taxonomy, phylogeny and population genetics of animals, and in particular of molluscs. Yet, other taxa, such as flatworms (Platyhelminthes), …

Matteo Campioli associate research professor Research Matteo Campioli Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise My research aims to understand how terrestrial ecosystems function, especially to improve the ecosystem models used to simulate climate change. My …

SUSTAIN | Biobased Sustainability Engineering search menu search content Projects Planned, ongoing and finished projects Ongoing projects Restoring degraded soils while sequestering carbon (RESTOC). 01/12/2024 - 30/11/2028 Abstract RESTOC aims to test the use of three CO2 removal (CDR) techniques - …

Ivan Janssens full research professor Research Ivan Janssens Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise - Greenhouse gas balance of ecosystems and continents. - Forest ecosystem productivity. - Carbon cycling through soil, ecosystem, region, continent, globe. …

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural grasslands exposed to increasingly persistent weather patterns (AMFAGPW). 01/02/2025 - 31/01/2027 Abstract Amplified arctic warming lessens the temperature dif…

Ivan Nijs full professor Research Ivan Nijs Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise Impact of climate change on plants and ecosystems, in particular the influence of climate extremes such as drought and heat. Role of biodiversity in ecosystems. Biological i…

Erik Verbruggen associate research professor Research Erik Verbruggen Research team Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change Expertise Microbial ecology of plants and soils The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural grasslands exposed to increasingly persistent weathe…

Stijn Temmerman professor Research Stijn Temmerman Research team Ecosphere Expertise Ecology of coastal and estuarine systems, in particular tidal wetlands (marshes and mangroves), how they function through interactions between tides, waves, storm surges, sea level rise, erosion, sedimentation, vege…

Jonas Schoelynck TT. asst. research professor Research Jonas Schoelynck Research team Ecosphere Expertise In my research I focus on the BIO in biogeochemistry. This means that I study the interaction of plants and animals with their environment, and in particular chemical and geomorphological proces…

Erik Matthysen full professor Research Erik Matthysen Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Expertise - Evaluation of landscape connectivity. - Population viability analysisand genetic analysis of (natural) populations. Individual variation in phenotypic plasticy in relation to intrinsic …

Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects Advancing Health Equity Through Microbiome-Centric and Multidisciplinary Research.(U-MaMi). 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2031 Abstract Research into health and well-being has historically been ne…

Els Prinsen professor Research Els Prinsen Research team Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES) Expertise My expertise on targeted metabolomics lays in the development of physicochemical analytical techniques, e.g. UPLC-MS/MS for the identification and quantification of hormones, pr…

Sarah Lebeer full research professor Research Sarah Lebeer Research team Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (LAMB) Expertise Bacteria-host interaction for beneficial microbes and probiotics (lactobacilli in gut, vagina, ...) Microbial analyses and identification (Microbiome researc…

Evolutionary Ecology Group - EVECO search menu search content Research Projects in the UAntwerp database Ongoing projects Into the wild: the role of virus exchange as a driver of adaptive genetic introgression between the European wildcat, Felis silvestris, and the domestic cat, Felis catus. 01/11/2…

Integrated Molecular Plant physiology Research search menu search content Main ongoing projects - IMPRES: Integrated Molecular Plant physiology Research Ongoing projects ROSWALL: Unraveling the molecular basis of ROS-mediated cell wall biomechanics during plant cell growth. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 A…

Science Public defences 2019 Public defences 2019 O(N) numerical methods for investigating graphene heterostructures and moiré patterns - Miša Anđelković (19/12/2019) Miša Anđelković 19 December 2019 Supervisors: François Peeters and Lucian Covaci Department of Physics Abstract In the resear…

Patrick Meire emeritus occasional assignment Research Patrick Meire Research team Ecosphere Expertise Ecological investigations in aquatic and wetland ecosystems. Vegetation mapping. Physico-chemical and biological (BBI) analysis of water quality. Blue-Green strategies for climate change adaptation …