Infrastructure

The S.O.S. Antwerp database includes detailed information of the causes of death in the city of Antwerp from 1820 to 1946. For each person who died in the city during this period, both the cause of death and personal data from death certificates were compiled, including name, gender, marital status, occupation, age, place of birth, and address. Additionally, information is available on parents, doctors, hospitals, and burial sites. In total, the database provides information on 480,000 individuals and 73 variables.

The first detections of gravitational waves since 2015 and the dawn of the multi-messenger astronomy era have demonstrated the enormous scientific potential of gravitational-wave observatories and provided a solid basis for the future of gravitational-wave (astro-)physics. The Einstein Telescope is envisioned as the pioneer of a new generation of gravitational wave detectors designed to realize this potential. An EU-funded Conceptual Design Study has identified the Belgian-Dutch-German border area as a promising location to site the Einstein Telescope. With this application we aim to ...

A versatile and flexible microbe handler. In other words, a robotic setup, consisting of multiple individual parts that are integrated into one functional unit, that allows rapid characterization of microbes.

Consisting of the following components

• A workstation

Should allow multiple instruments, listed below, to be integrated in a compact, yet still easily accessible format. Importantly, the workstation should be designed with optimal flexibility and expandability in mind. The entire workstation should be fitted with a HEPA hood, allowing microbial ...

Imaging has become a key technology in life sciences and clinical research. As an ESFRI project, Flanders BioImaging (FBI) historically consists of two main multisite nodes:  FLAMINGO (Flanders Molecular Imaging Organisation) and LIMBO (Light Microscopy BioImaging Operations), that were both successfully evaluated in the EU EuroBioImaging (EuBI) project at its Interim operation (ERIC status now). The primary aim of this project is to anchor both consortia in order to provide international researchers access to an integrated high-capacity network of state-of-the-art imaging ...

Synchrotron X-rays are produced when charged particles circulate in a storage ring close to the speed of light and are much more intense compared to the X-rays used for example in hospitals. By studying the interaction of a synchrotron X-ray beam with matter, the matter structure is revealed down to the atomic and molecular scale. A synchrotron can be imagined as a giant microscope that can  ook at the inside of non-living and living matter down to the atomic level without damaging it. This project finances research at DUBBLE, the Dutch-Flemish research stations attached to the ...

Both PET and MRI are regarded as the most advanced and sensitive non-invasive in vivo imaging technologies. PET enables quantitative imaging of dynamic biochemical processes while MRI allows functional and structural characterization of nearly all body tissues.

Currently all Flemish PET and MRI images are acquired sequentially by stand-alone PET or MRI systems as there are no simultaneous PET-MRI systems installed in Flanders. Yet, simultaneous PET and MRI imaging offers important scientific and medical benefits that are impossible to realize using stand-alone systems. We therefore ...