Three Wiener-Anspach Alumni have recently been appointed to permanent positions at the University of Oxford and the Université de Bruxelles, joining the many former fellows who have built their careers across the three universities covered by the mission of our Foundation. We congratulate them and wish them every success in this new professional chapter.

Athena Tsingarida, currently Full Professor of Art History and Archaeology of the Greek World at the Université libre de Bruxelles, has been elected to the Lincoln Chair of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford, where she will take up her post in October 2026. The first woman to hold this chair in its 140-year history, Prof. Tsingarida thus adds a new milestone to her distinguished career, which began with a doctorate at Oxford started with the support of a Wiener-Anspach fellowship in 1992-1993. Subsequently, Prof. Tsingarida established close collaboration with her colleagues at Oxford, notably with Prof. Irene Lemos (Faculty of Classics). Together, they led two research projects supported by the FWA: “Beyond the polis. Ritual practices and the construction of social identity in early Greece” (2012–2015) and “Crete and Euboea at the heart of an interconnected world (12th to 6th century BCE): the role of coastal settlements in networks of short- and long-distance exchange” (2022–2024).

To learn more about Athena Tsingarida’s election to the Lincoln Chair, two articles on the subject are available on the websites of Lincoln College and of the Faculty of Classics.

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Anton Jäger, PhD in History (University of Cambridge), has been appointed Lecturer in the History of Political Thought and Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford. A Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow in 2020–2021, he conducted research at the ULB on the theme “An Intellectual History of Universal Basic Income,” under the supervision of Daniel Zamora (GERME). This research led to the publication, with Dr Zamora, of the essay Welfare for Markets A Global History of Basic Income (The University of Chicago Press, 2023). Before joining the University of Oxford, Dr Jäger was a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and at Cornell University.

More information about his research and publications is available on his personal page on the DPIR website.

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Anthony Piron, PhD in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Université libre de Bruxelles), following his postdoctoral stay at the University of Oxford in 2023–2024, was appointed Lecturer at the ULB Faculty of Pharmacy in 2025. Dr Piron is also the promoter, together with his Oxford colleague John Todd (Nuffield Department of Medicine), of the research project “The genetic and environmental background of diabetes”, funded by the FWA for the period 2026–2027. The project aims to “clarify the molecular effects of diabetes risk variants by leveraging large-scale datasets and advanced colocalization methods.”