Research expertise
At Hasselt University, our researchers focus on different research domains. Within each research domain, a business developer is ready to guide you on your path to valorisation.
Feel free to reach out to the contact person within your domain!
For general questions, please contact techtransfer@uhasselt.be.
Life Sciences & Health
Biomedical Research Institute
BIOMED is a multidisciplinary institute where high-end technologies are used to gain new insights into three main disease areas: immunology, neuroscience and cardiovascular disease.
dr. An Voets
Business Manager
dr. Leen Willems
Business Developer
Materials & Energy
imo-imomec
Imo-imomec is a research institute of Hasselt University, in collaboration with imec, where chemists, physicists and engineers conduct multidisciplinary materials research. We focus on advanced material systems for a sustainable and healthy society. Our core areas are energy conversion, energy storage, sustainable materials, sensors, healthcare materials and quantum technologies.
dr. Lieve De Doncker
Business Manager
dr. Steven Van Hoof
Business Manager
Cleantech
CMK - Centre for Environmental Sciences
CMK is a multidisciplinary research institute focusing on issues of environmental stress in general, and more specifically on the effects on organisms, soil, water and air pollution. Over the years, CMK has developed academic leadership in two complementary lines of research: sustainable clean technologies, and biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate change.
dr. Nele Witters
Business Developer
dr. Marijke Jozefczak
Business Developer
DSI Data Science
Data Science Institute
The Data Science Institute brings together more than 150 researchers working in the broad field of data science, across faculties and research groups at Hasselt University.
DSI's main goal is to facilitate the data-driven future. We are committed to data-related challenges, fundamental innovations and applicable solutions.
dr. Simon Appeltans
Business Developer
dr. Tina Smets
Business developer
Digital & ICT
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
As a computer science research centre, the Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) conducts research in five lines of research. Precisely at the fault line of those different informatics domains - where our areas of expertise touch - we prefer to create added value. Because combining expertise is doubling impact.
dr. Mieke Haesen
Business Development Manager
Steven Palmaers
Business Developer
Transportation
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
IMOB is shaping the mobility of the future by providing science-based solutions to the major challenges facing society and industry. IMOB operates within the fields of transportation and road safety, focusing on travel behaviour. We do this by studying the interaction between behaviour, infrastructure and technology.
Prof. dr. ir. Wim Ectors
Business Developer
Limburg Clinical Research Center
The Limburg Clinical Research Centre (LCRC) is a unique collaboration between Hasselt University, Jessa Hospital and the Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL). We want to improve our healthcare, by combining both academic research and clinical practice. Through patient-oriented, medical-scientific research, we work towards finding innovative solutions to needs in daily clinical practice. As an internationally oriented academic-medical knowledge center in Limburg, LCRC aims to form an important stimulus for top medical care, academic education and healthcare innovation in Limburg and Flanders.
Dr. Janne Kaes
Business Developer
Construction innovation
CERG
The Construction Engineering Research Group (CERG) focusses its research on the analytical, numerical and experimental assessment of the technical design of both structures and road infrastructure. In doing so, CERG wants to facilitate the transfer from fundamental research towards practical applications and into practice.
dr. ing. Rik Steensels
Business Developer
Architecture & Arts
ArcK
ArcK is the research group of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts that focuses on research in architecture and interior design. We conduct fundamental and applied research on the built environment. In a multidisciplinary team, we work on important societal challenges, such as purposeful and adaptive reuse of our heritage, engaging diverse groups in spatial transformation processes, critical reflection on and contribution to the environmental impact of our built environment, inclusive design, designing for wellbeing and experience...
Our research is clustered in 5 research domains: ‘spatial capacity building’, ‘sustainability’, ‘designing for more’, ‘Trace: heritage & adaptive reuse’ and ‘FRAME’.
MAD
MAD-research is structured and driven by four research domains that develop their operation in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of UHasselt and PXL-MAD School of Arts: ‘FRAME’, ‘MANUFrACTURE’, ‘READSEARCH’ and ‘Art education’. A brief summary of their core research activity is listed below. Please visit the individual pages for a full overview of their activities.
dr. Lieve Weytjens
Business Developer
Business Economics
Good academic research is the foundation for quality academic education and is an important link in the innovation chain. The research of the faculty focuses on a number of spearhead areas. Several of these spearhead themes are closely linked to socio-economic challenges and opportunities in the region: entrepreneurship and the management of family businesses, environmental economics, logistics and diversity in organizations are some examples.
Pieter Jan De Queker
Business Developer
Rehabilitation Sciences
REVAL
The REVAL research group of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences focuses on interdisciplinary and technology-supported research within rehabilitation, with attention to clinical applications. The patient is the central focus point, with the aim of promoting the functioning, health and well-being of every person. Through the service platform ReLab, contract research is also possible.
dr. Yvette Kerkum
Business Developer
Law
CORe
The Centre for Government and Law (CORe) is the research group of the Faculty of Law. CORe focuses mainly on the relations between citizens and government, for example in constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law and tax law. There is also research on the relations between citizens themselves. Think for example of family law, contract law, property law, economic and social law.
Magalie Manshoven
Legal expert
AI @UHasselt
Hasselt University combines research, education and valorisation around artificial intelligence to address societal challenges and opportunities of AI. With a focus on ethics, innovation and collaboration within Flemish AI initiatives such as FAIR and VAIA, the university contributes to a data-driven future.
