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Universiteit Antwerpen

The University of Antwerp (UA) was built on the foundations of three different universities in the City of Antwerp:

  • the Universitair Centrum Antwerpen (RUCA), founded in 1965
  • the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA), founded in 1965
  • the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (UIA), founded in 1971.

The existence of these three universities as separate entities, was ended in 2003, when the University of Antwerp started to operate as one autonomous and pluralist university.

At present the University of Antwerp has approximately 10,000 students, an administrative staff of 1,002 and an academic staff of 1,560, which are organised into seven different faculties: natural sciences / medicine / pharmaceutical, biomedical and veterinary sciences / law / political and social sciences / arts / applied economics.

Research policy at UA aims at the development of new and the strengthening of existing centres of excellence, by providing them with internal research funds and additional tenured researchers in order to re-inforce their competitiveness on regional, national and international level.

Within the Physics Department a large part of research is devoted to the study of the structural and electronic properties of materials (including biomaterials), and in particular of nanostructures, by means of experimental, theoretical and computational techniques. In addition to the work on carbon nanostructures, strongly correlated systems like the actinides are considered.

Within the Chemistry Department and the Centre for Micro- and Trace Analysis a research group specializing in the non-destructive characterisation of materials by means of (synchrotron) X-ray microbeams is active. This group has gained experience in the design and construction of synchrotron instrumentation (including X-ray optics), their use for characterization of solid materials and associated modelling/simulation.

Within the physics department two theory groups contribute to the ACTINET network. The first group studies the electronic and structural properties of ternary uranates (NaUO3, KUO3, RbUO3, BaU04 and BaUO3) by means of first-principles electronic structure calculations (bandstructure calculations and multiple scattering technique), and the XANES spectra of these compounds in particular. The second group studies the temperature dependence of the structure of UO2 and NpO2 close to a structural phase transformation within a theoretical analytical approach based on the methods of statistical mechanics.

For more information: http://www.ua.ac.be.

Address

Universiteit Antwerpen - Campus Middelheim - Departement of Physics
Groenenborgerlaan 171
B-2020 Antwerpen
Belgium

Contactperson(s)

Dirk LAMOEN


Phone +32 (0) 3 265 33 16
Fax +32 (0) 3 265 33 18
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