Our 3rd Bachelors students visited the excavations at the Grote Markt in Aalst!
Our BA3 Archaeology students from Vrije Universiteit Brussel visited the ongoing archaeological excavations at the Grote Markt in Aalst!
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FWO PhD Fellowship success for four AMGC PhD students!
We are super proud of our four PhD students, who were each awarded a highly competitive FWO PhD Fellowship last month! Read more about their exciting research projects below Clara Zelinsky Each day 5 truckloads worth of extraterrestrial dust, so called micrometeorites, arrive t...
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Where did the cattle come from? New research from AMGC answers this for 16th century Antwerp using multi-isotope analysis!
Cattle were a major source of meat in post-medieval northwestern Europe and increasingly became part of expanding regional and long-distance trade networks. At the same time, 16th-century Antwerp was booming.
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PROFESSOR STEVEN GODERIS TAKES OVER AS HEAD OF AMGC
As of 1 October 2026, Prof. Steven Goderis takes over as Head of AMGC, succeeding Prof. Philippe Claeys. A new era begins at AMGC. Steven is a Research Professor at VUB whose work spans planetary science, cosmochemistry, impact cratering and the evolution of the early Solar System.
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Visitors from Japan at AMGC: talking Chicxulub impact
On Tuesday 29 September, AMGC welcomed visitors from Japan for a day devoted to one of the most extraordinary events in Earth’s history: Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
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2026 Barringer Medal Awarded to AMGC Director Philippe Claeys
Congratulations to our AMGC Director Professor Philippe Claeys, recipient of the 2026 Barringer Medal and Award! Presented annually by the Meteoritical Society, the Barringer Medal and Award recognises outstanding contributions to the study of impact cratering and impact phenomena.
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Exhibition Muddy Minds invitation
We are happy to announce the upcoming exhibition Muddy Minds at REST. From 1 August to 12 September 2026, REST presents the exhibition Muddy Minds centered around a geo-archaeological excavation, featuring Jumana Manna, Dr. Ella Egberts, Alexandra Hunts, Matilde Yilmaz, the land and Magali Reus.
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Worldwide press coverage of new paper on odd-type of meteorite killing the dinosaurs
To read our open-access Science Advances paper click here and check its almetric here - It is in the top 5% of all research output scored by Altmetric. Philippe Claeys and Steven Goderis are part of the science team, composed a multidisciplinary group of researchers from Institut de Physique...
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AMGC well represented at STRATI2026 in Suzhou, China
Stratigraphers from all over the world met in Suzhou (China) for STRATI2026 to discuss the latest advances in the field. PhD student Naihua Xue and Prof. Philippe Claeys represented AMGC. Former AMGC’ers Profs David De Vleeschouwer (Univ.
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Juliette Faucher defended her PhD on impact cratering
On June 15 2026, Juliette Faucher obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Science with the thesis "Untangling impact processes during hypervelocity meteoritic impacts: Petrography and geochemistry of impactites formed on igneous and metamorphic targets".
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AMGC Ries Crater field trip with “Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris”
From June 1st to 4th, Philippe Claeys led a field trip to the Ries crater Noerdlingen (Bayern, Germany) for master students at the IPGP, together with AMGC members: Professor Steven Goderis, and part of his Flux team, Samuel Boschi, Max Thiemens, Jolanta Eschrig, Gabriele Pinto, Tryvge Prestgard, a...
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New advanced instrumentation at AMGC grinding high-Tº organic extraction system
On its own funding, AMGC has been able to acquire a new state of the art electromechanical particle-size reduction system designed to transform cellular matrix structures such as roasted coffee beans, collected all around the globe, in daring, adventurous and audacious field-expeditions, into a high...
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