On December 13, 2024, the Académie royale de Belgique hosted the reception ceremony for the new Members of its Collegium, including Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Guillaume Schweicher and Cecilia Rizcallah, laureate of the Ganshof van der Meersch Prize in 2014-2015. Founded in 2021, the Collegium brings together 40 young scientists, artists, or prominent figures from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation who wish to support the Academy in its mission to promote the arts and research.
Guillaume Schweicher (PhD in Engineering Sciences) is FNRS Research Associate at the Université libre de Bruxelles since 2021 and a member of the Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry, where he develops novel organic and hybrid semiconducting materials for a greener and more sustainable electronics. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Optoelectronics Group of the University of Cambridge. He is also the co-promoter, with Deepak Venkateshvaran (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), of the research project “Achieving a Figure of Merit ZT=1 in Organic Thermoelectrics (ZT1)”, funded by the FWA for the 2024-2025 period.
More information about his research is available on his lab’s website.
Cecilia Rizcallah (PhD in Juridical Sciences) is Professor of European law and Human Rights at the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Visiting Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Associate Research Fellow at the l’Institute for European Law – KU Leuven. Since September 2024, she is also the co-president of BEDER, the Belgian Association for European Union Law. Her research interests include European constitutional law, in particular the protection of the rule of law, democracy and human rights. In 2014-2015, she was awarded the W.J. Ganshof van der Meersch Prize. Established in 1994 by the FWA, it rewards the merits of a student with an exemplary academic record and who earned their Master of Law degree at the ULB, specializing in public and international law.
Cecilia Rizcallah’s list of publications is available here.