On October 4, during the opening session of the academic year, the Royal Academy of Belgium welcomed thirteen new full members, including two Wiener-Anspach Alumni: Nicolas Boulanger in the Class of Sciences, and Isabelle Rorive in the Class of Letters, Moral and Political Sciences.

Nicolas Boulanger, who holds a PhD in Physics from the Université libre de Bruxelles, was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2003–2004, working with Professor Hugh Osborne at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. In 2015 he was awarded the Théophile De Donder Prize in Mathematical Physics by the Royal Academy of Belgium. That same year, he established his own research group at the Université de Mons, which three years later became the Physics of the Universe, Fields and Gravitation research and teaching unit (PUGC).

Isabelle Rorive is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Equality Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the ULB. Twice a Wiener-Anspach Fellow at the University of Oxford, she completed there an MSt in Legal Research in 1997-1998, then returned in 2001-2002 to carry out a postdoctoral research project under the supervision of Professor Monroe Price, then Director of the Comparative Media Law and Policy programme. Professor Rorive was also a member of the FWA Scientific Committee from 2011 to 2022.

The Fondation Wiener-Anspach also extends its warmest congratulations to ULB Professors Vinciane Debaille and Karine Van Doninck, elected to the Class of Sciences, with whom it has had the pleasure of collaborating.

In 2017–2018, Vinciane Debaille delivered a lecture titled “Meteorites in Antarctica: Archives of Our Solar System” at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Philippe Wiener Lectures series organised by our Foundation.

Karine Van Doninck directed, together with her Oxford colleague Timothy Giles Barraclough, the collaborative research project “A Phylogenomic Framework to Assess Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers”, supported by the FWA from 2022 to 2024.