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Expertise and Technology & service platforms

ULB is a comprehensive university with expertise in a variety of areas, from life sciences and human sciences to more technical disciplines. The skills and equipment of the University's research units are available to businesses, public organisations, and associations, meeting their need for various services (expertise, testing, consulting, custom training courses, studies, etc.).

To this end, ULB provides support by:

determining which team is best suited to meeting the need for expertise or a specific service;
giving access to high-end equipment and know-how, including through ULB's 15 technology & service platforms which gather expertise and equipment that it makes available to private companies, public organisations and associations, as well as to its own researchers.

Technology Platforms of Excellence of the Recovery Plan

Through the Walloon and Brussels Recovery Plans, financed by Wallonia, the European Union (NextGenEU) and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the five universities of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation have been equipped with cutting-edge facilities in the fields of space, biomaterials and energy transition, giving rise to three Technology Platforms of Excellence. Discover the equipment available at ULB at the following links :

BIOGREEN Platform SPATIAL Platform ENERGY TRANSITION Platform

ULB Technology & service platforms

Each platform consists in teams from various laboratories, research institutes, or faculties, that can offer integrated services by combining cutting-edge equipment, technological expertise, and interdisciplinary scientific expertise. ULB currently has 15 technology & service platforms, most of which are active in the fields of life sciences and engineering.

Read the presentation brochure of ULB technology platforms

Analytical platform of the Faculty of Pharmacy – APFP

Mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, FTIR, atomic absorption… Access a series of formulations and analytical solutions for your pharmaceutical and/or industrial products at the Analytical platform of the Faculty of Pharmacy (APFP).

Campus: ULB - La Plaine, Bruxelles
Website
Brochure
Contact: apfp@ulb.be

BRIGHTCore, Brussels Interuniversity Genomics High Throughtput Core

The BRIGHTCore platform offers next-generation sequencing, using cutting-edge equipment to perform genetic testing.

Campus: UZ Bruxelles, Jette
Website
Contact: flibert@ulb.ac.be

CIREM - Instrumentation platform in nuclear magnetic resonance

CIREM is an instrumentation platform in nuclear magnetic resonance, making 1D and 2D ¹H-¹³C measurements to analyse organic synthesis products, determine purity, perform quality control (QC), and check for regulatory compliance (REACH).

Campus: ULB - Solbosch et Plaine, Bruxelles
Website
Brochure
Contact: cirem@ulb.be

CMMI - Centre for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging

CMMI offers an integrated high-performance platform for preclinical biomedical imaging: microscopy, DIAPath, in vivo imaging, multimodal image processing.

Campus: Biopark ULB Charleroi
Website
LinkedIn
Vidéo
Brochure

Contact: info@cmmi.be

CRCN - Centre for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences

CRCN offers equipment dedicated to behavioural experiments.

Campus: ULB - Solbosch, Bruxelles
Website
Contact: info@crcn.ulb.ac.be

Flow cytometry - Biopark Charleroi Brussels South

The Biopark’s flow cytometry platform offers: consulting in immunology; project support; multi-parameter analysis (16+ parameters); maturation and sorting of cells from specific populations.

Campus: Biopark ULB Charleroi
Brochure
Contact: dtorres@ulb.ac.be

Flow cytometry - Erasme

The flow cytometry platform can perform signal transduction for applications in a variety of fields: biology, molecular genetics, molecular oncology, molecular enzymology and pharmacology, cell biology, theoretical modelling, development biology, and gene therapy.

Campus: ULB - Erasme, Bruxelles
Contact: christine.dubois@ulb.be

GEOSCIENCES

The GEOSCIENCES platform offers a wide range of services in geochemistry, mineralogy and geophysics associated with the geosciences, but also applicable to fundamental or applied research in e.g., volcanic hazards and risks, geotechnics, air quality, public health, archaeology, biology. The platform provides access to state-of-the-art mass spectrometry instruments (ICP-OES, ICP-MS, HR-MC-ICP-MS, CC-MC-ICP-MS) for analyses of major and trace element concentrations and isotope compositions (Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf Cu Zn, Fe, Mg, Ca, Si, etc.). GEOSCIENCES can also be used for microscopic observations and semi-quantitative compositional analyses using a SEC SNE-4500M Plus - EDS. Finally, the platform has developed a strong expertise in geophysics and provides a wide range of seismo-acoustic and optical instruments such as geophones and hydrophones, as well as Distributed Acousting Sensing and Fiber Bragg Grating interrogators.

Campus : ULB - Solbosch, Brussels
Website
Contact : platform.geosciences@ulb.be

Functional neuroimaging platform: The functional neuroimaging platform offers access to cutting-edge tools for imaging the functioning human brain (MEG, high-density EEG, PET-MRI) as well as expertise in signal processing.

Campus : ULB – Solbosch, Brussels & ULB – Erasme, Brussels
Website
Contact : xavier.de.tiege@ulb.be
LiMiF - Light Microscopy Facility: The LiMiF platform offers cutting-edge equipment and expertise in optical microscopy.
Keywords: LSM510NLO & multiphoton laser, wide field fluorescence microscope, Axioimager+apotome, LSM780 & multiphoton laser, LSM780NDD & multiphoton laser.

Campus: ULB - Erasme, Bruxelles
Website
Contact: jmvdwin@ulb.ac.be
Micro-milli - Micrometric and millimetric systems: Experimental platform for the realization of micrometric and millimetric systems and for the analysis of transport phenomena taking place within these systems

Campus: ULB - Solbosch, La Plaine, USquare (Brussels)
Website
Contact: micromilli@ulb.be
MobileRObotics: The platform is dedicated to the design, control and deployment of robotic solutions, particularly in the field of mobile robotics. Activities include: the design and control of robotic solutions for ground robots, aerial robots and marine robots; the control and deployment of swarms of robots; robotics for construction; robotics for precision agriculture; advanced battery management systems for mobile robotics.

Campus: ULB - Solbosch, Brussels
Contact: mauro.birattari@ulb.be
PANORAMA - Acquisition and digitisation platform for objects and locations in architecture, monuments, and archaeology: PANORAMA is an inter-faculty platform for 3D virtual imaging. It includes a technical facility, equipment, and multidisciplinary skills in archaeology, heritage conservation, architecture, engineering, and software engineering: 3D acquisition (photogrammetry, lasergrammetry, virtual visits) and data analysis.

Campus: ULB - Solbosch, Bruxelles
Website
LinkedIn
Contact: panorama@ulb.ac.be
Policy Lab: The Policy Lab co-creates, accompanies and evaluates public policies and experiments at every stage of the process (design, planning, implementation and evaluation). The Policy Lab collaborates with government agencies, political institutions, businesses, and associations that are interested in testing new ways of doing things in order to achieve more sustainable, inclusive, and effective policies through the involvement of their stakeholders.

Campus: ULB - Solbosch, Bruxelles
Website
Contact: policylab@ulb.be
Transgenesis platform: The transgenesis platform covers a variety of techniques: performing transgenesis, revitalising cryopreserved cell lines, IVF, transferring live embryos from foreign laboratories.

Campus: ULB - Erasme, Bruxelles
Contact: vanessa.depaepe@ulb.be