Lab Promotors

The lab promotors founded and/or direct the Antwerp Social Lab, and bear general responsibility for the lab equipment and infrastructure.

KAROLIEN POELS

Full professor 'Strategic Communication & Persuasive Technologies'

Department of Communication Studies (MIOS research group)

Lab projects:

Research interests:

  • Persuasive communication
  • (Online) advertising
  • Health promotion
  • Crisis communication
  • Emotion research

PIET VAN DEN BOSSCHE

Full professor ‘Learning in Organisations’

Department of Training and Education Sciences (EDUBRON research group)

Lab projects:

Research interests:

  • Team learning
  • Professional development
  • Informal learning
  • Workplace learning

DAVID GIJBELS

Full professor 'Learning and Instruction'

Department of Training and Education Sciences (EDUBRON research group)

Lab projects:

Research interests:

  • Student learning
  • Higher education
  • Workplace learning
  • Processing strategies

Research promotors

The research promotors collaborate with the Antwerp Social Lab, and are closely involved into lab-related research projects and/or tools.

CHARLOTTE DE BACKER

Full professor 'Interpersonal & Intercultural Communication'

Department of Communication Studies (MIOS research group)

Lab projects:

Research interests:

  • Social food studies
  • Social talk
  • Celebrities
  • Dating behaviour
  • Interpersonal relations

HEIDI VANDEBOSCH

Full professor 'Cyberbullying & Health Communication'

Department of Communication Studies (MIOS research group)

Lab involvement:

Research interests:

  • Cyberbullying (prevalence, profiles bullies/victims, impact)
  • Health communication
  • Health interventions (e.g. serious games, narrative interventions)

ISABELLE ROBERT

Associate profesor

Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies

Lab involvement:

  • The Tobii Pro Glasses 3 are made available through a collaborative effort of Isabelle Robert, Iris Schrijver van de TricS Research group & the Antwerp Social Lab

IRIS SCHRIJVER

Associate professor

Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies

Lab involvement:

  • The Tobii Pro Glasses 3 are made available through a collaborative effort of Isabelle Robert, Iris Schrijver van de TricS Research group & the Antwerp Social Lab

GERT VERCAUTEREN

Tenure track asst. professor

Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies

Lab involvement:

ANNA JANKOWSKA

Tenure track asst. professor

Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies

Lab involvement:

  • Co-promotor of the research project 'Interacting Minds, Interacting Bodies'


WALTER DAELEMANS

Full professor

Department of Linguistics

Lab involvement:

  • Co-promotor of the research project 'Interacting Minds, Interacting Bodies'


ANN DESMET

Assistant professor

Department of Communication Sciences

Lab involvement:

  • Co-promotor of the research project 'Interacting Minds, Interacting Bodies'

KRISTOF VAES

Tenure track asst. professor

Department of Product Development

Lab involvement:

  • Co-promotor of the research project 'Interacting Minds, Interacting Bodies'

STEVEN LATRE

Full professor

Department of Computer Science

Lab involvement:

  • Co-promotor of the research project 'Interacting Minds, Interacting Bodies'