The Foundation extends its warmest congratulations to Arthur Péquin and Joseph Salinas, both recipients of a Wiener-Anspach doctoral fellowship in 2021-2022, who recently defended their PhD thesis. Arthur Péquin and Alessandro Parente (Universitè libre de Bruxelles, 6 July 2023). Arthur Péquin, PhD in Aero-Thermo-Mechanics (ULB), worked under [...]
We are delighted to announce that Wiener-Anspach Alumna Nibedita Mukherjee (Lecturer in Global Development at Brunel University London) is among the winners of the British Ecological Society (BES) Annual Awards, “recognising eleven distinguished ecologists whose work has benefited the scientific community and society in general”. Dr Mukherjee received the [...]
A Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 2014 to 2016, Paul Earlie had the invaluable opportunity to work with late Belgian philosopher Michel Meyer (1950-2022), to whom he pays a vibrant homage. What sparked your interest in French thought, your main area of research? Were you [...]
The Foundation would like to congratulate Dr Katie Johnston, 2018-2019 Wiener-Anspach Alumna, and Dr Julien Decharneux, currently a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, on the prizes they were recently awarded for their doctoral dissertation. Katie Johnston received the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation [...]
From June 28 to 30, the University of Cambridge hosted the international workshop "Respecting Seeds: An Exploration into Saving Ethics and the Politics of Care in Gardens, Farms and Banks". Co-convened by Olivia Angé, Professor of Economic Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a Wiener-Anspach Alumna, this [...]
From 2018 to 2020, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation supported the research project "Conflicts of Sovereignty in a European Union in Crisis (SovEU)", aimed at testing the hypothesis that " the existential crisis faced by the EU over the last decade is not the product of a conflict between national sovereignty [...]
Aurelia Sauerbrei, DPhil student in Population Health at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a one-year Wiener-Anspach fellowship at ULB, where she is pursuing her research on "Artificial intelligence and healthcare: the ethics of using clinical artificial intelligence tools" under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Noël Missa (Faculty of [...]
From left : the Executive Director of the Foundation, Kristin Bartik, 2021-2022 recipient Zoé Lejeune and Julie Allard, Dean of the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology (picture by Benjamin Lachterman). Established in 1994, the Ganshof van der Meersch Prize rewards a student from the Faculty of [...]
On April 21, before the reception at the Residence of His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm, Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, the Foundation's Alumni Network organised a visit to the Egyptian galleries of the British Museum. We had the pleasure to be guided by Amélie Deblauwe, a Wiener-Anspach [...]
On 21 April 2023 we had the pleasure to gather in London several of our UK-based alumni and friends as well as many Fellows currently in Oxbridge. The reception took place in the beautiful setting of the residence of the Belgian Ambassador, His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm. We [...]
