Yiqi Su defended her PhD thesis on CALUX bioassays for environmental monitoring on Oct. 7 2025
Yiqi Su defended with success her PhD thesis "AhR- and ER-CALUX bioassays for environmental monitoring of polycyclic aromatic compunds and xenoestrogens" on Oct. 7, 2025 at the VUB, with Profs Dr. Marc Elskens (AMGC-VUB) and Pierre Van Antwerpen (ULB) as advisors, and Prof.
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Besarta Matranxhi defended her PhD thesis on CALUX applications to environmental toxicity screening
Besarta Matranxhi successfully defended her PhD thesis on the utilisation of CALUX in vitro Bioassay (AhR & ERa) for environmental toxicity screening: Insight into Tribology tests, wastewater analysis, and polluted soil assessement Supervisor: Prof. Dr.
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Geological Society of America Outreach video based on AMGC GSA Bulletin paper
Watch the excellent video made by GSA here to learn about the real effects of the Deccan volcanism on the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.
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Urban Archaeology Days
Want to find out more about urban archaeology? Then come along to the Urban Archaeology Days, organised by urban.brussels' Archaeological Heritage Department!
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Press coverage of new paper on life recovery within crater after dino-killing impact 66 million years ago
Read this open-access Nature Communication paper here and check its almetric here, in the top 5% of its scored research The science team included a multidisciplinary group of researchers from Kyushu University; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; the University of Texas Jackson School of Geoscienc...
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Yuwei Jia defended her PhD thesis on soil and water contamination by metals & estrogens
Yuwei Jia successfully defended her PhD thesis on the problems raised by metal and estrogen contamination in water and soils. The work focuses on understanding the toxicity, mobility, bioavailability, and, ultimately, the risks generated by these pollutants. Both lead to human health hazards.
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AMGC welcomes a visitor from out of space
Former AMGC PhD Dr. Ryoga Maeda returned this week with samples from the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sampling mission . The mission launched in 2014 by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA brought back several grams of material from C-type Asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
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Docville 2025 Documentary "De Dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen".
The presentation of the 2025 Docville scientific documentary "De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen" is scheduled for April 02 2025 at 19:30 in Cinema ZED Vesalius in Leuven, as part of the Science Pitch Docu's.
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Soils and luminescence signals shining light on the story of monumentality in Nicaragua
In the dry corridor of Central Nicaragua lies an extraordinary archaeological site: more than 372 rocky mounds shaped into semicircles and likely built from 300 A.D. onwards. Over the past few years, archaeologists from Leiden University have mapped these mounds.
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Tom Boonants defended his PhD thesis Today.
Tom Boonants presented successfully his PhD thesis titled "From falling stars to cremated bone: Towards a robust methodology of trace element determination in these Ca-heavy matrices" with Profs Steven Goderis and Christophe Snoeck from AMGC as advisors.
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Giorgio Arriga obtained his joint PhD between Univ. Roma Tre & AMGC
Giorgio Arriga successfully presented his PhD titled “ Long-term evolution of seismogenic faults in the central Apennines ”, advisors Profs Federico Rossetti (Roma) and Philippe Claeys (AMGC-VUB).
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AMGC Archaeologists aim to shed new light on the Late Bronze Age collapse
The collapse of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean remains one of the greatest historical enigmas.
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