On September 30, at a ceremony for the opening of the academic year, the Académie royale de Belgique welcomed fourteen new full members, including Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Professor of Mathematics at the Université catholique de Louvain and member of the Classe des Sciences.
In 2006-2007, after completing his PhD in Mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Dan Segal on a research project titled “Kac-Moody groups and geometric group theory”.
Together with Nicolas Monod (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Dr Caprace was awarded the 2015 Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society, for their work on isometry groups of CAT(0) spaces. The two researchers also edited the book New Directions in Locally Compact Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2018). More information on Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace’s research and publications can be found on his personal website.
The Foundation also extends its warmest congratulations to Kristin Bartik (Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Brussels School of Engineering, ULB, and Executive Director of the Fondation Wiener-Anspach since 2005), on being elected to the Classe Technologie et Société of the Académie.