Titulars
UNIVERSITY OF GENT (UGent)
2022-2023
Bernard Dan (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULB – Paediatric Neurologist and Professor of Neurophysiology and developmental neurology – Inaugural Lecture on March 28, 2023 : Towards the end of disability ?
Arthur Frank – Professeur University of Calgary, Canada – Sociology – Inaugural Lecture on 22 February 2023 : Anxious Voices in Shakespeare,Heidegger, and Healthcare.
2021-2022
Steve Majerus – Professor ULg – Psychology and cognitive neuroscience – Inaugural Lecture on 8 March, 2022 : Working memory : a cognitive interface for the past the present and the future.
Tim Schwanen – Professor Oxford University – Transport Studies and Geography and Director of the Transport Studies Unit – Inaugural Lecture on February 21, 2022 : The Need for Just Transformations in Urban Mobility
2020-2021
Alain Vanderplasschen (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULg – Immunology – Vaccinology – Veterinary Medicine – Inaugural Lecture on September 10, 2021 – Viruses : the good, the bad an the ugly.
2019-2020
Esther Rozendaal – Associate Professor Radboud University, the Netherlands – Communication and media – Inaugural Lecture December 7, 2020 (online) – Media-empowerment : op eigen kracht naar mediawijs gedrag
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2018-2019
Yves-Henry Leleu – Professor ULg – Droit familial et droit médical – Inaugural Lecture March 29, 2019 – individualization of family law: failure of the law? Francqui Chair_Prof Leleu
Marcel Louis Bouvy (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor Utrecht University, the Netherlands – Pharmacist – Inaugural Lecture on 12/02/2019 : Pillen zonder zorgen? De kunst van het geneesmiddelengebruik”.
2017-2018
Jay D. Humphrey (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor Yale University – Biomedical Engineering – Inaugural Lecture March 13, 2018 – Biomechaniscs of vascular ageing and disease.
2016-2017
Andrew S. Murray – Professor at the Aarhus University – Denmark – Geoscience – Inaugural Lecture May 9, 2017 – Shining a light on the past : luminensce dating in geology and archaeology
Thierry Vandendriessche – Professor at the VUB – Medicine & Pharmaceutical science – Inaugural Lecture February 14, 2017 : Changing the face of modern medicine : gene therapy and gene editing.
2015-2016
Sanna Järvela – Professor University Oulu – Finland – Educational Science – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2016 : Socially shared regulation of learning in CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) environments.
Pierre Philippot – Professor at the UCLouvain – Psycholgy – Inaugural Lecture February 8, 2016 : Emotion, cognition and psychotherapy : toward a transdiagnotic process-oriented approach.
2014-2015
David L. Sedlak – Professor Berkeley University of California – Water Chemistry – Inaugural Lecture August 18, 2015 – The evolution of urban water systems « Looking to the past to Create a Better Furture »
Stefan Stremersch – Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam – Innovatie en marketing – Inaugural Lecture March 26, 2015 – Innovatie in het DNA van elke organisatie
2013-2014
Caroline Pauwels – Professor at the VUB – Communication Sciences – Inaugural Lecture May 12, 2014 – Media 2020 : een mediasector in crisis, een communicatiewetenschappelijke discipline op zoek naar relevantie
Daan Crommelin – Professor at the Utrecht University – Pharmaceutical Chemistry – Inaugural Lecture March 7, 2014 – Impact of the pharmaceutical sciences over the past 50 years and…..Quo Vadis ?
2012-2013
Paul Van Orshoven – Professor Dr. at the KULeuven – Rechtsgeleerdheid – Inaugural Lecture February 19, 2013 – Les disciplines des disciplines. Procesrecht en grondwet, hand in hand
Nikolaos G. Papayannakos – Professor at the National Technical Univesity of Athens Chemical Enigneering – Inaugural Lecture February 14, 2013 : Production routes of Biodiesel from vegetable oils and fats
2010-2011
Jonathan Grainger – Professor Dr. at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, France – Experimental psychology – Inaugural Lecture May 6, 2011 : The wonderful world of printed words
2009-2010
Cynthia Van Hulle – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Applied economic sciences: Finance – Inaugural Lecture March 25, 2010 : De financiële crisis : een beklijvend scharniermoment voor de bedrijfsfinanciering en de liquiditeitspolitiek in het bijzonder ?
Ynte Hein Schukken – Professor at the Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine- Director of Quality Milk Production Services and Professor of Epidemiology and Herd Head – animal medicine – Inaugural Lecture February 17, 2010 : Milk, math and molecules : epidemiology of endemic infectious disease in cattle.
2008-2009
Johan Swinnen – Full Professor at the KUL – Agricultural economics – Food Policy – Inaugural Lecture February 10, 2009 : Liberalization with Endogenous Institutions : are there Lessons for Africa from the Reform Experiences in China or in Eastern Europe ?
Alfred Van Staden – Full Professor at the University Leiden, the Netherlands – Public International Law – Inaugural Lecture February 18, 2009 : Het opkomend tij van het intergouvernementalisme in de Europese Unie : uitdaging voor kleinere lidstaten
2007-2008
Jean-Victor Louis – Emeritus Professor at the ULB – Legal sciences – Evolution et revision de la constitution de l’union européenne : dimensions internes et externes – Inaugural Lecture November 13, 2007 : La réforme des traités constitutifs de l’Union Européenne (1986-2007). Quel bilan ?
Piet Herdewijn – Full Professor at the KUL – Medicinal Chemistry – Pharmaceutical Sciences – Topics in Medicinal and Biological Chemistry – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2008 : The Role of RNA in Contemporary Biology
2006-2007
Benoit Nemery de Bellevaux – Full Professor at the KUL – Pneumology
Paul Van Houtte – Full Professor at the KUL – Metallurgy – Metal forming seen from the Nano, the Micro and the Mesa Scale
2005-2006
Jean-Pierre Devroey – Full Professor at the ULB – History of the Middel Ages
Joseph Cugnon – Full Professor at the ULg – Subatomical physic and radiation – Nuclear reactions : from fundamental physics to new applications
2004-2005
Jacques Mainil – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine – Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of bacterial infections
Bernard Rime – Full Professor at the UCL – Psychology and Pedagogy – Emotion and expression
2003-2004
David De la Croix – Full Professor at the UCL – Macroeconomic – From stagnation to economic growth : 1600-2100
Eddy Decuypere – Full Professor at the KUL – Animal production
2002-2003
Marc Swyngedouw – Full Professor at the KUL – Political en social sciences
2001-2002
Alain Wijfels – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
Francis Delannay – Full Professor at the UCL – Applied Sciences Current challenges for the control of deformation and failure in engineering materials
1999-2000
José Junca de Morais – Full Professor at the ULB – Psychological and pedagogical sciences– The Literate Mind
1998-1999
Michel Georges – Francqui Prize 2008 – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine
Marcel Robertfroid – Full Professor at the UCL – Agricultural and biological applied sciences
1997-1998
Guido Fauconnier – Full Professor at the KUL – Political en social sciences
1996-1997
François Rigaux – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
Désiré Massart – Full Professor at the VUB – Pharmaceutical sciences
1995-1996
Willem Flameng – Full Professor at the KUL – Experimental surgery and anaesthesiology
Etienne Aernoudt – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied sciences
1993-1994
Raymond Van Uytven – Full Professor at the UA – History
Jacques Dumont – Full Professor at the ULB – Nuclear medicine
1992-1993
Paul De boeck – Full Professor at the KUL – Psychological and pedagogical Sciences
Pierre Lekeux – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine
1991-1992
Paul De Grauwe – Full Professor at the KUL – Political economy
José Degand – Full Professor at the UCL – Agronomy
1990-1991
Simon Scharpé – Full Professor at the UA – Biological & medical sciences
Pierre Van Ommeslaghe – Full Professor at the ULB – Human sciences
1989-1990
Jean-Pierre Coheur – Full Professor at the ULg – Steel face to the challenges of year 2000
1988-1989
Marc Verstraete – Full Professor at the KUL – Three generations thrombolytica : a brave new world
1987-1988
Paul Gochet – Full Professor at the ULg – Epistemolgy, logic and artificial intelligence.
1986-1987
Albert Pissart – Full Professor at the ULg – Natural Sciences : Le périglaciaire et l’intérêt de son étude
1984-1985
Willy Szafran – Full Professor at the VUB – Applied Psychoanalyse
1983-1984
Roger Hanset – Full Professor at the ULg – Animal and civilisation selection
1982-1983
Herbert Glejser – Full Professor at the FUNDP
1980-1981
Camille Heusghem – Full Professor at the ULg – Clinical biology
1979-1980
Albert Fettweis – Full Professor at the ULg – Law
1978-1979
Charles Hirsch – Full Professor at the VUB – Exact sciences
1977-1978
Edward Carmeliet – Full Professor at the KUL – Biological and medical sciences
1976-1977
Irène Simon – Full Professor at the ULg – Literature
1975-1976
Henri-Georges Garnir – Full Professor at the ULg – Mathematics
1974-1975
Gilbert De Landsheere – Full Professor at the ULg – Pedagogy
1973-1974
Constant Huygelen – Director of Dept biology at the Laboratory of S.A. « Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutique » (R.I.T.)
1972-1973
Victor Van Rompuy – Full Professor at the KUL – General economy
1971-1972
Marcel Homès – Pro Rector and Ful Professor at the ULB – The Lesson of history. Mineral alimentation of vegetal and manuring problems
1970-1971
Charles-Léon Lapière – Full Professor at the ULg – Acces to new medication
1969-1970
Pierre Coheur – Full Professor at the ULg – The recent progress in iron en steel metallurgy
1966-1967
Chaïm Perelman – Francqui Prize 1962 – Full Professor at the ULB – Phylosphy
1965-1966
Henri Albéric Rolin – Honorary Professor at the ULB
1963-1964
Pierre Gourou – Honorary Professor at the ULB – Geography
1962-1963
Christian de Duve – Nobel Prize of Medicine 1975 – Francqui Prize 1960 – Full Professor at the UCL – Advent of modern biology
1961-1962
Georges Homès – Honorary Professor at the ULB and Polytechnical Faculties-Mons – Applied sciences
1959-1960
Simone d’Ardenne – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Phylosophy – Literature
1958-1959
Raymond Jeener – Francqui Prize 1954 – Honorary Professor at the ULB – Biological & Medical sciences
1957-1958
Jean Brachet – Francqui Prize 1948 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biology
1956-1957
Henri De Page – Honorary Professor at the ULB – Law
1954-1955
Robert Vivier – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Phylosphy
1953-1954
Paul J.L. Moureau – Full Professor at the ULg – Pathology
1951-1952
Willy Peremans – Professor emeritus at the KUL – Human sciences
1950-1951
Eugène Mertens de Wilmars – Professor emeritus at the UCL
1949-1950
Baron Emile van Dievoet – Professor emeritus at the UCL – Law
1947-1948
Albert Dalcq – Honorary Professor at the ULB
1946-1947
Paul Harsin – Francqui Prize 1950 – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Human sciences
UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE (ULg)
2022-2023
Hans Nauwynck (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULg, Head of the laboratory of Virology – Veterinary Medicine – Inaugural Lecture May 5, 2023 : Increased circulation of infectious agents facilities their genetic evolution and leads to more co-infections and severe diseases-can human medicine learn from veterinary experience ?
Valérie Swaen – Professor UCLouvain – Sciences de Gestion – enseigne le marketing et la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise – Inaugural Lecture May 2, 2023 : Marketing au service de la transition : impératif ou imposture ?
2019-2020
Antoinette Rouvroy – Professor UNamur – Legal sciences – Inaugural Lecture March 5, 2020 Postponing : La gouvernementalité algorithmique: une analytique du pouvoir à l’ère des Big Data
Jean-François Collet – Professor UCLouvain – Résistance des bactéries aux antibiotiques – Inaugural Lecture December 10, 2020 (online): L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux : l’impact des bactéries sur notre vie.
2018-2019
Olivier Klein – Professor ULB – Science psycho. et de l’Education – Inaugural Lecture May 3, 2019 – Y a-t-il une issue à la crise de la réplication en psychologie ?
Anna Hehringer – Visiting Professor Technische Universität München – Architecture – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2019 – Architecture is a tool to improve lives.
2017-2018
Patrick Simon – Directeur de Recherche à l’INED (Institut National d’études démographies), France – Migrations internationales et minorités – Inaugural Lecture February 6, 2018 – Les enjeux de la diversité dans les sociétés multiculturelles.
Guy Smagghe – Professor UGent – Crop Protection
2016-2017
Xavier Wauthy – Professor at the FUSL – Economy, industrial organisation – Inaugural Lecture March 29, 2017 – Mutations numériques et Nouveaux modèles économiques
Patrice Cani – Professor at the UCLouvain – Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences – Inaugural Lecture April 5, 2017 – Plongeons au cœur de notre vie intérieure et de l’univers passionnant du microbiote intestinal !
2015-2016
Thomas Pardoen – Professor at the UCLouvain – Materials and process engineering – Inaugural Lecture February 3, 2016 – Fracture of materials : from physical mechanisms to engineering applications
Yvon Englert – Professor at the ULB – Gynecology – Obstetrique – Inaugural Lecture February 24, 2016 – La maîtrise de la reproduction humaine
2014-2015
Patrick Wery – Professor at the UCLouvain – Droit et criminologie – Inaugural Lecture November 24, 2014 – Mutations et défis du droit belge des obligations
Pierre Desmarez – Professor at the ULB – Sciences Sociales – Inaugural Lecture March 10, 2015 – La dynamique des marchés du travail : approches comparatives et longitudinales
2013-2014
Axel Cleeremans – Professor at the ULB – Psychologie cognitive – Inaugural Lecture February 5, 2014 – La question de la conscience en neurosciences cognitives et en philosophie de l’esprit
Dirk Delabastita – Professor at the FUNDP – Littérature anglaise, la théorie de la littérature, traductologie – Inaugural Lecture February 19, 2014 – La traduction : enfin !
2012-2013
Paul Belleflamme – Professor at the UCLouvain – Economics – Inaugural Lecture March 28, 2013 – Les grandes batailles de l’internet : un décodage économique
Bao-Lian SU – Professor at the FUNDP – Inorganic and Material Chemistry – Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2013 – Matériaux vivants : naissance-évolution-révolution.
2011-2012
Geert de Schutter – Professor at the UGent – Applied Sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 28, 2012 – Concrete science and technology in view of durable and sustainable structures.
Yurii Nesterov – Professor at the UCLouvain – Applied Sciences – Optimization – Inaugural Lecture February 17, 2012 – Algorithmic Challenges in Optimization Mathematical Point of View
2010-2011
Benoît Van Den Eynde – Professor at the UCL – Cellular Genetics – Inaugural Lecture June 9, 2011 – Tumor antigens, cancer immunotherapy and tumoral immune resistance mechanisms
2009-2010
Marc Brysbaert – Professor at the UG – Psycholinguistics – Inaugural Lecture February 11, 2010 : On being bilingual
Michèle Gregoire – Professor at the ULB – Law – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2010 : Garanties sur fractures
2008-2009
Paul Aron – Full Professor at the ULB – Pastiche et histoire littéraire – Inaugural Lecture February 4, 2009 : Pastiche et histoire littéraire
Andrea Rea – Full Professor at the ULB – Social sciences, politics and economics – Inaugural Lecture March 2, 2009 – Production et traitements des catégories contemporaines de disqualification sociale
2007-2008
Sophie Manigart – Full Professor at the UG – Financial Management – Specialised in the area of entrepreneurial financing – Inaugural Lecture February 15, 2008 : The private equity – un catalyseur de croissance
Jean-Christophe Renauld – Full Professor at the UCL – Medicine – Immunology, immunogenetics and immunopathology – Inaugural Lecture May 8, 2008 : Du Cancer à l’asthme en suivant les chemins détournés d’une interleukine.
2006-2007
Albert Goldbeter – Full Professor at the ULB – Systems biology and cellular rhythms – Modeling the rhythms of life
Peter Carmeliet – Francqui Prize 2002 – Full Professor at KUL – Molecular and vascular biology – Angiogenesis and lymphangriogenesis in health and disease
2005-2006
Lode Wijns– Full Professor at the VUB – Molecular biology – Proteins : molecules beyond a chemist’s imagination ?
Marc Fallon – Full Professor at the UCL – International and communnity law
2004-2005
Françoise Collin – Full Professor emeritus at the FUSL – Philosophy – Literature
José Junca de Morais – Full Professor at the ULB – Neurosciences Cognitives
2003-2004
Alain Eraly – Full Professor at the ULB – Applied economy sciences
Christian Burvenich – Full Professor at the UG – Veterinary medicine
2002-2003
Erik Dick – Full Professor at the UG – Applied sciences – Modern technics in simulation and modeling of complex flows : an overvieuw
Michel Goldman – Full Professor at the ULB – Medicine – Immunology – Hematology
2001-2002
Jean-Louis Deneubourg – Full Professor at the ULB – Inaugural Lecturer february 21, 2002 : Non-Linéarité et sociétés animales : une première visite – Le rôle de la physique et de la cognition individuelle dans la résolution collective de problèmes
2000-2001
Marc Wilmet – Francqui Prize 1986 – Full Professor at the ULB – Linguistic – From Linguistic to grammar
Eric Decorte – Full Professor at the KUL – Psychology of education
1999-2000
Jean-Claude Verbrugge – Full Professor at the ULB – Agronomy
Luc Van Campenhoudt – Full Professor at the FUSL – Economy
1998-1999
Jacques Dumont – Full Professor at the ULB – Medicine – Endocrinology
Maurice Pensaert – Full Professor at the UG – Veterinary medicine
1997-1998
Jean-Marie Ruysschaert – Full Professor at the ULB – Chemical sciences
Eddy Wymeersch – Full Professor at the UG – Law
1996-1997
Herman Parret – Full Professor at the KUL – Philosophy
1995-1996
Hervé Bazin – Full Professor at the UCL – Veterinary Medicine
Robert Cobbaut – Full Professor at the UCL – Applied economy sciences
1994-1995
Paul Van Houtte – Full Professor at the KUL – Micromechanics of polycrystalline materials – Bridging continuum mechanics and metal physics
Désiré Collen – Francqui Prize 1984 – Full Professor at the KUL – Vascular and molecular biology
1993-1994
Jacques Herbots – Full Professor at the KUL – Law
Jean-Luc Bredas – Francqui Prize 1997 – Full Professor at the UMH – Novel organic materials
1992-1993
Jean Balty – Full Professor at the ULB – Philosophy and literature – Archeology
Jacques-Philippe Leyens – Full Professor at the UCL – Psychology
1991-1992
Joseph Vandewalle – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied sciences – Artificial Neural Networks, a new paradigm able to solve realistic problems ?
Victor Ginsburgh – Full Professor at the ULB – Applied economy
1990-1991
Michel Debackere – Full Professor at the UG – Biological & medical Sciences
Arsène Burny – Full Professor at the FUSAGx – Zoological Sciences
1989-1990
André Berger – Full Professor at the UCL – Meteorology-Climatology
1988-1989
Michel Waelbroeck – Full Professor at the ULB – Law
1987-1988
Géry van Outryve d’Ydewalle – Francqui Prize 1992 – Full Professor at the KUL -Psychology
1986-1987
Jean Stengers – Full Professor at the ULB – History – Les modes d’action du Roi en Belgique, essai de typologie
1985-1986
Pierre Gaspart – Full Professor at FUSL – Brussels – Vision et intelligence artificielle en robotique : problématique générale
1984-1985
Alexis Jacquemin – Francqui Prize 1983 – Full Professor at the UCL – New industrial economy : Sélection et pouvoir dans la nouvelle économie industrielle
1983-1984
Roland Wollast – Full Professor at the ULB – Geochemistry Les Cycles Biogéochimiques des Eléments à l’Echelle du Globe Terrestre – Principes et objectifs de l’élaboration du cycle des éléments – Evaluations des processus de transfert et leurs incertitudes
1982-1983
Georges Peeters – Full Professor at the UG – Veterinary medicine : La physiologie de la glande mammaire
1981-1982
André De Schaepdrijver – Full Professor at the UG – Neurotransmission, physiology and pharmacology
1980-1981
Robert Wangermee – Full Professor at the ULB -Phylosophy
1979-1980
Marcel Crochet – Full Professor at the UCL – Applied sciences
1978-1979
Walter Fiers – Francqui Prize 1976 – Full Professor at the UG – Genetically encoded information – The Molecular Biology of the Oncogenic virus SV40
1977-1978
Hubert Chantrenne – Francqui Prize 1963- Full Professor at the ULB – Molecular biology
1976-1977
Jean Rey – Minister of State – Former President de European Community – Law, economy and social sciences
1975-1976
Isidoor Leusen – Francqui Prize 1969 – Full Professor at the UG – Physiology
1974-1975
René Derolez – Full Professor at the UG – Linguistic
1973-1974
Henri Leroy – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Applied sciences
1972-1973
Christian de Duve – Nobel Prize of Medicine 1975 – Francqui Prize 1960 – Full Professor at the UCL – Biological & medical sciences
1971-1972
Herman Bekaert – Full Professor at the ULB – The expression of truth. Penalty procedure
1970-1971
Joseph Heremans – Full Professor at the UCL – The immunological mechanism
1968-1969
Jean-Edouard Desmedt – Francqui Prize 1972 – Full Professor at the ULB – Recent data of physiology and physiopathology of nervous systems
1966-1967
Jean Paumen – Full Professor at the Free ULB
1965-1966
André Jaumotte – Full Professor at the Free ULB – Exact sciences
1964-1965
Severin Amelinckx – Full Professor at the UA – Exact Sciences
1962-1963
Egidius Spanoghe – Full Professor at the UG
1961-1962
Baron Ludo van Bogaert – Full Professor at the UA
1960-1961
Claire Preaux – Francqui Prize 1953 – Professor emeritus at the ULB – Human Sciences
1958-1959
Joseph-Charles Jungers – Full Professor at the UCL – Exact sciences
1957-1958
Ilya Prigogine – Nobel Prize of Chemistry 1977 – Francqui Prize 1955 – Full Professor at the ULB – Exact Sciences
1956-1957
Paul De Visscher – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
1954-1955
Albert Claude – Nobel Prize of Medicine 1975– Honorary Professor at the ULB
1953-1954
Gustave Charlier – Honorary Professor at the ULB
1952-1953
Georges J. Smets – Full Professor at the UCL/KUL – Exact Sciences
1950-1951
Charles Manneback – Professor emeritus at the UCL
1949-1950
Baron Louis Fredericq – Honorary Professor at the ULB – Law
1948-1949
Jean Brachet – Francqui Prize 1948 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biological & Medical sciences
1946-1947
Frans L. Ganshof – Francqui Prize 1946 – Professor emeritus at the UG – Human sciences
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS (VUB)
2022-2023
Pierre Purseigle – Professor University of Warwick, UK – Modern European History.
Johan Neyts (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor KULeuven – Virology – Inaugural Lecture on April 20, 2023 : The battle against viruses: a lot has been achieved, yet still a long way to go.
2021-2022
Jeroen Darquennes – Professor UNamur – Literature and philosophy – Inaugural Lecture on May 6, 2022 : Linguistics and the architecture of European society.
Mien Segers – Professor Maastricht University – Psychology & educational sciences
2020-2021
Leo Storme – Professor UGent – Mathematics : Analyse, logic and discrete mathematics – Inaugural Lecture April 19, 2021 (online): Finite Geoemtry: Pure Mathematics close to practical applications
Maria-Luisa Alegre (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor University of Chicago – Rheumatology – Inaugural Lecture February 11, 2021 : Career Path and Early Work on Costimulation.
2019-2020
Jean Vanderdonckt – Professor UCLouvain – Computer science – Inaugural Lecture February 20, 2020: Gesture Interaction with Devices and Systems: Is it Really Natural?
Gitta Kutyniok – Professor Technische Universität Berlin, Mathematik – Inaugural Lecture November 30, 2020 (online): Deep Learning meets modeling : taking the best out of both worlds
2018-2019
Daniel Gould – Professor Michigan States University – Study of Youth Sports – Inaugural Lecture September 30, 2019 – The role of psychology in the development and support of taletend and elite athletes.
Cédric Blanpain (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULB – Stem Cells and Cancer – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2019 – Mechanisms regulating pluripotent stem cells.
2017-2018
Jan Jonker – Professor Radbout Universiteit, Nijmegen, Nederland – Duurzaam ondernemen – Inaugural Lecture March 9, 2018 –Nieuwe Business Modellen: Duurzaam. Circulair. Inclusief.
Francqui Lecture : 27/04 – 18/05/2018
Maurice Whelan – Professor European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Italy – Inaugural Lecture February 27, 2018 : Replacing animals in science – impossible or inevitable ?
2016-2017
Gaëtan Kerschen – Professor at the ULg – Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering – Inaugural Lecture April 25, 2017 – Nature is nonlinear. What about engineering structures ?
Maarten van Bottenburg – Professor at the Utrecht University – NL – Sports development – Inaugural Lecture March 30, 2017 – Homo ludens revisited: over de betekenis van sport in de hedendaagse cultuur
2015-2016
Johannes Ring – Professor Dr.Med.Dr Technische Universiteit Munchen – Dermatologie & Allergologie – Inaugural Lecture May 9, 2016 – Mucosal and cutaneous allergy and immunology
Stefaan Vaes – Francqui Prize 2015 – Professor at the KULeuven – Mathematics – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2016 – Classification of van Neuman algebras and their quantum symmetries
2014-2015
Lieven Danneels – Professor aan de UGent – Motor rehabilitation & physiotherapy – Inaugural Lecture March 5, 2015 – Lage rugpijn, van het labo naar de klinische praktijk
Luc Van Loon – Professor Maastricht University Medical Centre – Movement science – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2015 – The human engine
2013-2014
Antoine Van Proeyen – Professor at the KULeuven – Theoretica Physics – Inaugural Lecture September 30, 2014 – Supergravity
Ronald Stoetaert – Professor at the UGent – Psychology and Educational Sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2014 – Cultuur & Educatie : Retoriek als Gereedschap
2012-2013
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij – Professor at the UGent – Movements and sport sciences -Inaugural Lecture February 18, 2013 – Minder zitten en meer bewegen : van theorie naar praktijk
Marc Hooghe – Professor at the KULeuven – Political Sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 21, 2013 – Tussen wantrouwen en activisme : de plaats van de burger in de hedendaagse westerse democratieën
2011-2012
Bart Lambrecht – Professor at the UGent – Pulmonary Medicine
Erik Thoen – Professor at the UGent – History – Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2012 – Samenwerken of de boer op ? Produceren en overleven binnen de Vlaamse plattelandsmaatschappij in een nieuw licht (middeleeuwen-19de eeuw)
2010-2011
Alain Verbeke – Professor at the KUL – Law and criminology – Inaugural Lecture March 29, 2011 : Can lawyers lie? Collaborative negotiation as inspiration for a new ethics
Fabio Maltoni – Professor at the UCL – Particle Physics Phenomenology – Inaugural Lecture Mars 18, 2011 – An expedition to the TeraWorld : challenges and opportunities at the LHC
2009-2010
Luc Goossens – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Psychology and education sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2010 : Education style of the parents and the development of the adolescent
Gérard Degrez – Professor Dr. at the ULB – Aero-Thermo-Mechanics – Inaugural Lecture April 2, 2010 : Modelling and simulation of reacting gas mixtures, with application to atmospheric (re-)entry flows in ground testing facilities.
2008-2009
Rik Coolsaet – Full Professor Dr. at the UG – Internationale politiek, Belgisch buitenlands beleid, veiligheidspolitiek, diplomatie – Inaugural Lecture February 17, 2009 : De multipolaire wereldorde, in het licht van gisteren
Jacques Duchateau – Full Professor Dr. at the ULB – Education physique – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2009 : Can exercise prevent the effects of ageing on the neuromuscular system ?
2007-2008
Fernand Hallyn – Full Professor at the UG – Romance Philology – Inaugural Lesson February 20, 2008 : La métaphore entre rhétorique et epistémologie
Peter Carmeliet – Francqui Prize 2002 – Full Professor at the KUL – Molecular and vascular biology – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2008 : The Neuro-Vascular link in health and disease : from genetics to therapeutic perspectives
2006-2007
Eric Dirix – Full Professor at the KUL – Law – Criminology
Axel Van Lamsweerde – Full Professor at the UCL – Software engineering – Engineering requirements for mission-critical software systems – Why should be we care about requirements engineering.
2005-2006
Vincent Yzerbyt – Full Professor at the UCL – Psychology – A world of identities : The social context of emotions
Hugo Hens – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied sciences – Architecture
2004-2005
André Farber – Full Professor at the ULB – Finance – 50 Years of finance
Jacques Poortmans – Full Professor at the ULB – Physical education – Physiotherapy
2003-2004
Diderik Batens – Full Professor at the UG – Philosophy – The problem, the claim, and the plan
Guy Haegeman – Full Professor at the UG – Medicine – Biochemistry – Oncology – Molecular biology, eukaryotic gene expression and signal transduciton
2002-2003
Marc Rigaux – Full Professor at the UA – Law
Marc Henneaux – Francqui Prize 2000 – Full Professor at the ULB – Physics – Latonic solids and Einstein theory of gravity : unexpected connections
2000-2001
Paul De Boeck – Full Professor at the KUL – Psychology
Joos Vandewalle – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied sciences – Artificial Neural Networks, a new paradigm able to solve realistic problems ?
1999-2000
Marc Mareel – Full Professor at the UG – Radiotherapy – Oncology – Cancer : a disease of growth, differentiation and tissue integrity
Robert Anderson – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics – Law
1998-1999
Willy Clarisse – Full Professor at the KUL – Archeology
Etienne Pays – Francqui Prize 1996 – Full Professor at the ULB – Molecular biology
1997-1998
Paulette Van Oost – Full Professor at the UG – Psychology and pedagogy
José Vandevoorde – Full Professor at the ULB – Applied sciences – Architecture
1996-1997
Eugeen Roosens – Full Professor at the KUL – African sciences – Anthropology
1995-1996
Alfons Billiau – Full Professor at the KUL – The pathogenesis of infectious disease strategies, checks and balances in the host-parasite relationship
André Helbo – Full Professor at the ULB – Phylology – Semiology
1994-1995
Micheline Jamoulle – Full Professor at the ULg – Law
Pierre Van Moerbeke – Francqui Prize 1988 – Full Professor at the UCL – Mathematics – Solitons and strings
1993-1994
André Danthine – Full Professor at the ULg – Applied sciences – Necessary Enhancements of distributed systems communication architecture
Guy Karnas – Full Professor at the ULB – Psychology and education
1992-1993
Ludo Gelders – Full Professor at the KUL – Economics, social and political sciences
Roland Renson – Full Professor at the KUL – Physical education – Physiotherapy
1991-1992
Jaak Billiet – Full Professor at the KUL – Sociology
1990-1991
Marcel Storme – Full Professor at the UG – Law – Economy sciences
Jean-Claude Lorquet – Full Professor at the ULg – Physics
1989-1990
Pierre Colman – Full Professor at the ULg – History of Art and archeology
1988-1989
Leni Verhofstadt-Deneve – Full Professor at the UG – Psychology
1987-1988
Yvette Merchiers – Full Professor at the UG – Law
1986-1987
Paul Lagasse – Full Professor at the UG – The Challenge of opto-electronics
1985-1986
Jacques Urbain – Francqui Prize 1987 – Full Professor at the ULB – Immunology – From antibody diversity to idiotypic networks in the immune system
1984-1985
Alain Ghysen – Full Professor at the ULB – Ontogeny of the nervous system : a geneticist’s view
1983-1984
Gilbert De Landsheere – Full Professor at the ULg – Theoretical and experimental Pedagogy : Aspects contemporains de la recherche expérimentale en éducation
1982-1983
Lucien Huyse – Full Professor at the KUL – Political and Social Sciences
1981-1982
Jean Van Bladel – Full Professor at the UG – Electromagnetics
1980-1981
Herman Van Der Wee – Full Professor at the KUL – Economics
1979-1980
Jean Mawhin – Full Professor at the UCL – Ranges of nonlinear perturbations of linear operators and applications to bountary value problems
1978-1979
Roger Dillemans – Full Professor at the KUL – Human sciences – Civil law
1977-1978
Etienne-Sadi Kirschen – Full Professor at the ULB – Income distribution and redistribution
1976-1977
Marc Verstraete – Full Professor at the KUL – The fysiology of Haemostasis
1975-1976
Jaap Kruithof – Full Professor at the VUB – Idea of democratie
1974-1975
Paul Osterrieth – Full Professor at the ULB – Child and teenage psychology
1973-1974
Jan Ronse – Full Professor at the KUL – Commercial law and civil law
1972-1973
Marc Vanwormhoudt – Full Professor at the UG – Signal of space
1971-1972
Isidoor Leusen – Francqui Prize 1969 – Full Professor at the UG – Physiology
1969-1970
David Speiser – Full Professor at the UCL – Application of group theory to elementary particles
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS (ULB)
2022-2023
Philippe Grandjean (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor University of Southern Denmark & Harvard School of public health – Environmental Medicine – Public Health – Inaugural Lecture on February 6, 2023 : I’m toxic, so don’t eat me!
Vinciane Despret – Professor ULg – Philosophy – Inaugural Lecture on April 24, 2023 : Apprendre à poser les bonnes questions.
2021-2022
Cathy Macharis – Professor VUB – Co-Director MOBI (Mobility, Logistics & Automotive Technology Research Center) Applied Economic – Inaugural Lecture on March 12, 2022 : Sustainable mobility and logistics : with a factor 8 to a new mobility system.
Stein Aerts (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor VIB/KULeuven – Human Genetics – Inaugural Lecture on February 1, 2022 (online) : Decoding gene regulation in the single-cell era.
2020-2021
Michel Van den Bergh – Francqui Prize 2003 – Professor Limburgs Universitair Centrum – Relationship between algebra and geometry – Inaugural Lecture on March 31, 2021 (online) : Introduction to homological mirror symmetry.
Eleanor Sharpston – Avocate générale à la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne jusqu’en 2006 – Law – Inaugural Lecture on March 1, 2021 (online) : Some reflections on the rule of law within the law of the european union.
2019-2020
Jean-Louis Cohen – Professor Institute of Fine Arts de New York, USA – History of Architecture – Inaugural Lecture on May 7, 2020 (online) Chaires_Francqui_Cohen (1) – l’invention de Frank Gehry
07.05 Leçon inaugurale : l’invention de Frank Gehry
> ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97247837660
08.05 La leçon des artistes
> ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97247837660
14.05 Les échelles de l’expérimentation
> ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93461831252
15.05 Le tournant numérique
> ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93461831252
28.05 L’atelier comme laboratoire
> ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99511724638
Johan Lagae – Professor UGent – Architecture and Urbanisme – Inaugural Lecture on February 17, 2020 Chaires_Francqui_Lagae (1) – De l’outre-mer au transnational. Glissements de perspectives dans l’historiographie de l’architecture et l’urbanisme coloniale et postcoloniale en Afrique
2018-2019
Roland Goigoux – Professor Université Clermont-Auvergne – ESPE – France – Education Sciences – Inaugural Lecture March, 15, 2019 – Cinq focales pour la formation des enseignants.
Patrick Willems (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor UCLouvain – Sciences de la motricité – Inaugural Lecture March 7, 2019 – Cost & efficiency of human locomotion.
2017-2018
Yves Gonzalvez-Quijano – Professor Université Lumière Lyon 2, France – Littérature arabe moderne et contemporaine – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2018 – Ourouba : les politiques de l’arabité
Philippe Hubert – Professor ULg – Chimie Analytique Pharmaceutique – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2018 – Tout ce que vous avez voulu savoir sur les faux médicaments…
2016-2017
Justin Erik Halldor Smith – Professor Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 History and Philosophy of Science – Inaugural Lecture February 8, 2017 – Le Parlement des Bêtes : la philosophie politique au-delà des frontières entre espèces
Lieven Annemans – Professor at the UGent – Health Economics – Inaugural Lecture March 16, 2017 – Des soins de qualité pour tous dans un système de santé durable : garantie ou utopie ?
2015-2016
Adrian Liston – Professor at the KULeuven – Microbiologie & Immunologie – Inaugural Lecture March 10, 2016 – Immune regulation and barriers to cancer immunotherapy
Philippe Aghion – Professor Harvard University – Economie – Inaugural Lecture Feburay 23, 2016 – Les énigmes de la croissance
2014-2015
Laurent Keller – Professor Université de Lausanne – Ecology & Evolution – Inaugural Lecture November 27, 2014 : Des fourmis et des hommes
Damien Vandermeersch – Professor UCLouvain et Saint-Louis Bruxelles – Droit pénal et procédure pénale – Inaugural Lecture February 5, 2015 – La procédure pénale au début du XXiè siècle les défis
2013-2014
Daniel Kirschen – Professor at the University of Washington – Seattle – Electrical Engineering – Inaugural Lecture March 14, 2014 – Balancing cost, reliability and environmental impact : the future of electrical energy
Roland Pepermans – Professor at the VUB – Experimental and applied psychology – Inaugural Lecture February 19, 2014 : Social.Exchange@Work
2012-2013
Didier Vrancken – Professor at the ULg – Politiecal & Social Science – Inaugural Lecture February 26, 2013 : Les invisibilités barbares. Sens et contresens des dispositifs contemporains d’intervention sociale
Jacques Lucan – Professor at the Ecole Nationale supérieure d’Architecture de la ville des territoires de Marne-la-Vallée – France – Architecture – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2013 : Histoire d’un concept : le poché
2011-2012
François Moureau – Professor at the Université de Paris-4 Sorbonne – Littérature française du XVIIIe siècle – Inaugural Lecture February 9, 2012 : Watteau, « peintre flamand » à sujets italiens : un paradoxe artistique ?
Jean-Philippe Platteau – Professor at the FUNDP – Economy – Inaugural Lecture February 6, 2012 : Is legal radicalism effective to confront oppressive social norms ?
2009-2010
Reinhilde Veugelers – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Managerial Economics – Inaugural Lecture April 20, 2010 : Towards a Multipolar Science World ?
Paul M. Tulkens – Professor Dr. at the UCL – Pharmacology – Inaugural Lecture April 26, 2010 : de la médecine au médicament et du médicament vers la médecine : le long chemin de la pharmacologie et de la pharmacie
2008-2009
Michel Georges – Francqui Prize 2008 – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine – Forward genomic dissection of complex traits in human and veterinary medicine – Inaugural Lecture May 14, 2009 : Unraveling the molecular basis of inherited predisposition to Crohn’s disease
Romain Meeusen – Professor Dr. at the VUB – Lichamelijk opvoeding – Motorische revalidatie – Kinesitherapie – Inaugural Lecture February 4, 2009 : Is exercice good for the brain ?
2007-2008
Serge Bredart – Full Professor at the ULg – Psychological sciences – The recognising of familiar faces – Inaugural Lecture February 6, 2008 : Thanks to you, model
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele-Member of the Bureau (IPCC)-The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 – Full Professeor at the UCL – Climatology – Inaugural Lecture March 6, 2008 : Les changements climatiques et l’avenir de la vie sur Terre : Quels défis pour les sciences et l’action politique ?
2006-2007
George de Leval – Full Professor at the ULg – Law
Johan Schoukens – Full Professor at the VUB – Applied sciences: System identification, from measurements to model
2005-2006
Marc Boone – Full Professor at the UG – History of Middle Ages
Jacques Defourny – Full Professor at the ULg – Social economy
2004-2005
Benoît Van Den Eynde – Full Professor at the UCL – Cellular genetics
Koen Geens – Full Professor at the KUL – Law
2003-2004
Kris Deschouwer – Full Professor at the VUB – Sociology – Political sciences
Philippe Van Parijs – Francqui Prize 2001 – Full Professor at the UCL – Social phylosophy
2002-2003
Jacques Verly – Full Professor at the ULg – Signal processing
Jean-Marie Frère – Full Professor at the ULg – Biochemistry and microbiology
2001-2002
Bernard Rime – Full Professor at the UCL – Psychology – Cognitive and social consequences of emotional experiences
Daniel Giovannangeli – Full Professor at the ULg – History of modern and contemporary philosophy
2001-2001
Lode Van Outrive – Full Professor at the KUL – Sociology
Désiré Massart – Full Professor at the VUB – Pharmaceutical science
1999-2000
Koenraad Lenaerts
Full Professor at the KUL – European law
Emile Godaux – Full Professor at the UMH – Neuropsychiatry
1998-1999
Frans De Schrijver – Full Professor at the KUL – Submicron Chemistry
Martial Van der Linden – Full Professor at the ULg – Psychology – Sciences of education
1997-1998
Guy G. Rousseau – Full Professor at the UCL – Cellular and molecular pathology – Hormonal control of vertebrate gene transcription
1996-1997
Jozef L. Teugels – Full Professor at KUL – Mathematics – Statistics of extremes : theory and applications
1995-1996
Jean Remy – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg – Full Professor at the ULg – Philosophy and literature
1994-1995
François Ost and Michel van de Kerchove – Full Professor at the FUSL – Law
Michel Gevers – Full Professor at the UCL – Automatic, dynamic and analysis of systems
1993-1994
Alexis Jacquemin – Francqui Prize 1983 – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics
Arnold Herman – Full Professor at the UA – PharmacologyAlexis Jacquemin – Francqui Prize 1983 – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics
1992-1993
Freddy Pirnay – Full Professor at the ULg – Clinical physiology – Medicine of sport
Joseph A. Martial – Full Professor at the ULg – Molecular biology
1991-1992
Paul Jespers – Full Professor at the UCL – Microelectronics
André Goffeau – Full Professor at the UCL – Physiological biochemistry
1990-1991
Walter Van Gerven – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied economics sciences
Xavier Seron – Full Professor at the UCL – Cognitive neuropsychology
1989-1990
Herman Parret – Full Professor at the UA – Philology – Linguistic
Paul-Pierre Pastoret – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine
1987-1988
Paul De Grauwe – Full Professor at the KUL – Political Economy
1986-1987
Marc van Montagu – Full Professor at the UG – Molecular genetic – The State of the art on plant genetic engineering
1985-1986
Georges Kellens – Full Professor at the ULg – Criminology : Cercles de craie et traits du fusain : lecture criminologique du droit pénal spécial
1984-1985
André De Schrijver – Full Professor at the UG – Virus EB and cancer of nasopharynx
1983-1984
Jean-Marie Ghuysen – Full Professor at the ULg – Microbiologie – La Péniciline, cinquante ans après Fleming
1982-1983
Adriaan Verhulst – Full Professor at the UG – Histoire socio-économique du Moyen-Age – Géographie historique – Histoire agraire – Etat actuel des recherches en matière d’histoire rurale en Belgique (Moyen âge et temps modernes)
1980-1981
Michel Lesne – Full Professor at the UCL – Theoretical and clinical pharmacology
1979-1980
Léo Apostel – Full Professor at the UG and VUB – Human sciences – Phylosophy
1978-1979
Gilbert De Landsheere – Full Professor at the ULg – Pedagogy
1977-1978
Jean Van Bladel – Full Professor at the UG – Electromagnetic, Maxwell equations
1976-1977
François Houtart – Full Professor at the UCL – Center of research socio-religious
1975-1976
Maurice Van Meersche – Full Professor at the UCL – Molecular structure
1974-1975
François Rigaux – Full Professor emeritus at the UCL – Civil Law
1973-1974
Georges Duyckaerts – Full Professor at the ULg – Psychology
1972-1973
Roger Aubert – Full Professor at the UCL – History of the Church
1971-1972
Xavier Aubert – Full Professor at the UCL – La Physiologie générale de l’excitation, de la sécrétion et de la motilité
1970-1971
Jacques Drèze – Full Professor at the UCL – Bayesiennes methods in econometry
1969-1970
Baudouin Fraeijs de Veubeke – Full Professor at the ULg and UCL – Exact Sciences
1967-1968
Paul Ledoux – Francqui Prize 1964 – Full Professor at the ULg – Actual questions of theoretical astrophysics
1965-1966
Jules Labarbe – Full Professor at the ULg – Classical phylology
1964-1965
André Mast – Full Professor at the UG
1963-1964
Christian de Duve – Nobel Prize of Medicine 1975 – Francqui Prize 1960 – Full Professor at the UCL – Structure and functions of lifelike cells
1961-1962
Paul Lambert – Full Professor at the ULg – Human sciences
1960-1961
Albert De SY – Professor emeritus at the UG – Metallurgy
1959-1960
Alphonse De Waelhens – Full Professor at the UCL – Phylosophy literature
1957-1958
Claude Renard – Full Professor at the ULg – Law
1956-1957
Zénon Bacq – Francqui Prize 1948 – Professor emeritus at ULG – Radiobiology
1955-1956
Marcel Florkin – Francqui Prize 1946 – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Biochemistry – Chemical physiology
1953-1954
Frans L. Ganshof – Francqui Prize 1946 – Professor emeritus at the UG – Human sciences
Phylosophy – Literature
1952-1953
Paul Harsin – Francqui Prize 1950 – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Human sciences
1951-1952
Ferdinand Campus – Honorary rector at the ULg
1949-1950
André Buttgenbach – Full Professor at the ULG – Law
1948-1949
Romain Ruyssen – Full Professor at the UG – Exact sciences
1947-1948
Jules Duchesne – Francqui Foundation Gold medal 1961 – Full Professor at the UG – Chemical sciences – molecular physics
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN (KULeuven)
2022-2023
Frank Verstraete – Francqui Prize 2018 – Professor UGent -Theoretical physics and more specifically on the topic of quantum physics – Inaugural Lecture on May 8, 2023 : From Max Planck to Peter Shor: the big ideas in Quantum Physics.
Carol Harrison – Lady Margaret Professor of divinity, University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral – Theology – Inaugural Lecture on October 25, 2023 : Finding a voice : from sound to sense.
2021-2022
Florence Caeymaex – Professor ULg – Phenomenology, political philosophy, ethics of anthropology – Inaugural Lecture on March 23, 2022 : A systemic view : ethics and social. reproduction.
Sahana Udupa – Professor Lüdwig-Maximiliaans-Universität München – Media Anthropology – Inaugural Lecture on March 28, 2022 : The digital condition.
2020-2021
Stephane Goriely – Professor ULB – Astronomy & Astrophysics – Inaugural Lecture May 3, 2021 (online) : About the creation of elements in the Universe.
Slides Inaugural Lecture
Holger Diessel – Professor Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena – Duitsland – Linguistics – Inaugural Lecture Oktober 12, 2021 (online) : How language use shapes linguistic knowledge
2019-2020
Jean-François van Drooghenbroeck – Professor UCLouvain – Law – Inaugural Lecture March 4, 2020 – Droit des obligations et procédure civile : les liaisons vertueuses.
2018-2019
Alain Prochiantz (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor Collège de France – Neurobiology – Inaugural Lecture January 23, 2019 – Signaling transcription factors in development and physiology
Alexandre Guay – Professor UCLouvain – Philosophy – Inaugural Lecture February 28, 2019 – Methaphysics of science, or the quest of unity
2017-2018
Luc Steels – Professor ordinaire VUB – Computer Sciences & Gisèle Sapiro – Professor CNRS – Paris, France – Literary sociology, translation sociology, intellectual history – Inaugural Lecture April 17, 2018 – Luc Steel : Het enigma van taalevolute – Gisèle Sapiro : The transnational construciton of authorship.
2016-2017
Pascale Lecocq – Professor ULg – Dean faculty of law, political science and criminology – Inaugural Lecture September 27, 2017 – Heurs et malheurs de la propriété immobilière : entre constance et mutations.
Peter Robert Shewry – Professor University of Reading – UK – Plant Biology and Crop Science – Inaugural Lecture March 14, 2017 – Improving wheat quality for food processing and health.
2015-2016
Hugo Thienpont – Professor Dr.Ir. at the VUB – Applied Physics and Photonics – Inaugural Lecture April 19, 2016 – Photonics : light technology as a key enabler for ou 21st century society.
Hanspeter Kriesi – Professor European University Institute – Firenze – Italie -Comparatieve politieke sociologie, sociaal-politieke breuklijnen in West-Europese democratieën – Inaugural Lecture May 10, 2016 – How europeans view and evaluate democrocay.
2014-2015
Emile Van Schaftingen – Professor aan de UCLouvain – Biochemistry – Inaugural Lecture October 7, 2015 – In the beginning was metabolism…
Luriz Lis-Marzan – Professor CICbiomaGUNE – Espagne – Nanopartikels en plasmonics –Inaugural Lecture April 20, 2015 – Colors in Nanomaterials. Beautiful and Useful
2013-2014
François Peeters – Professor at the UA – Physics – Inaugural Lecture June 17, 2014 – Graphene and beyond : Physics meets Chemistry
Harry Bhadeshia – Professor at the Cambridge university – Computational Metallurgy – Inaugural Lecture May 6, 2014 – Exceptional Alloys of Iron
2012-2013
Bart Vervaeck – Professor at the UGent – Dutch Literature and Literary Theory – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2013 : Genre in verandering. Een andere kijk op de naoorlogse Nederlandstalige roman.
Hugh Collins – Professor at the London School of Economics – Law – Inaugural Lecture December 18, 2012 – Why Europe needs civil code
2011-2012
Karen Celis – Senior Research Fellow at the VUB – Political Sciences – Inaugural Lecture May 15, 2012 : Van abortus tot burka. Gender, diversiteit en politieke vertegenwoordiging
Rhidian Thomas – Professor em. at the Swansea University – UK – Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law.- Inaugural Lecture February 21, 2012 : The Rotterdam Rules – Are they fit for purpose ?
2010-2011
Geert Crombez – Professor at the UGent – Health Psychology – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2011 – Pain and suffering : recent advanced in research and therapy
Alain Valette – Professor at the Université de Neuchâtel, Zwitserland – Geometry – Inaugural Lecture February 15, 2011 : Graphs with large girth
2009-2010
Gino Baron – Professor Dr. at the VUB – Chemical engineering – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2010 : Exploiting order and structure on a range of length scales in adsorptive separation and reaction : from nanostructured to microfluidics
Yves Crama – Professor Dr. at the ULg – Management – Inaugural Lecture March 15, 2010 : Models for decision making : from applications to mathematics…..and back
2008-2009
Philippe Toint – Professor Dr. at the FUNDP – Mathématiques – Analyse numérique – Optimisation – Modélisation – Inaugural Lecture April 20, 2009 : Nonlinear optimization : motivation, past and perspectives
Tom Snijders – Full Professor at the University of Oxford, UK and the University of Groningen, the Netherlands – Statistical methods for social networks and mathematical sociology – Inaugural Lecture February 16, 2009 : Asymptotic optimality theory for testing problems with restricted alternatives.
2007-2008
Andrea Barbara Schmidt – Full Professor at the UCL – Human sciences – Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2008 :On the periphery of the Greek world. Voices from Armenia, Georgia and Syria and their interaction with Greek Culture.
Gilbert Vassart – Francqui Prize 1993 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biological and Medical sciences – genetics – Inaugural Lecture April 3, 2008 : From early molecular endocrinology to the G protein-coupled sub-genome
2006-2007
Johan van der Auwera – Full Professor at the UA – Linguistics
Pierre Van Moerbeke – Francqui Prize 1988 – Full Professor at the UCL – Mathematics – Random matrices : from the solitaire game to non-intersecting brownian motions
2005-2006
Piet Demeester – Full Professor at the UG – Applied sciences– Computer sciences
Marc Hallin – Full Professor at the ULB – Mathematics – Invariance, semiparametric efficiency, and ranks
2004-2005
Paul-Alain Foriers – Vice-Decan at the ULB – Law
Eric Lambin – Full Professor at the UCL – Geography – Change in the Earth system and global land transformation
2003-2004
Marco Martiniello – Full Professor at the ULg – Law – Political sciences – International migration, citizenship and ethno-racial relations : Migrations trends and policies in post-ware europe
Kris Heyde – Full Professor at the UG – Nuclear Physics
2002-2003
Eric David – Full Professor at the ULB – Law – Current problems of international humanitarian law and international criminal law
André Van Steirteghem – Full Professor at the VUB – Biochemistry
2001-2002
Jean-Marie Frère – Full Professor at the ULg – Biochemistry
Arnold Vlietinck – Full Professor at the UA – Pharmaceutical sciences
2000-2001
Dirk Van Dijck – Full Professor at the UA – Physics – Computer science
Els Witte – Full Professor at the VUB – History – Communication sciences
1999-2000
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg – Full Professor at the ULg – Literature
Jean-Philippe Platteau – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Economy – Can economists understand Institution ? The new institutional economics under scrutiny
1998-1999
Arsène Burny – Full Professor at the ULB – Zoological sciences
Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen – Full Professor at the ULB – Neuropsychology
1997-1998
Jacques Dumont – Full Professor at the ULB – Biochemistry
Serge Cescotto – Full Professor at the ULg – Applied sciences
1996-1997
Maurice Weyembergh – Full Professor at the VUB – Philosophy
Georges de Schutter – Full Professor at the UA – Dutch Literature
1995-1996
Els De Bens – Full Professor at the UG – Science of communications
Marc Bogaert – Full Professor at the UG – Pharmacology
1994-1995
Daniel Pipeleers – Full Professor at the VUB – Pathological physiology and biochemistry
Geert De Soete – Full Professor at the UG – Psychological and educational sciences
1993-1994
Jean-Luc Vellut – Full Professor at the UCL – Philosophy and literature (history)
Francis Delperée – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
1992-1993
Bernard Rime – Full Professor at the UCL – Cognitive and social consequences of emotional experiences
Freddy Dumortier – Full Professor at the LUC – Mathematics
1991-1992
Marcel Crochet – Full Professor at the UCL – Electrical and mechanical engineer
Walter Fiers – Francqui Prize 1976 – Full Professor at the UG – Molecular biology
1990-1991
Paul Rouxhet – Full Professor at the UCL – Agronomical sciences – Surface and colloid chemistry : a link between material science and bioengineering
Jean Drowart – Full Professor at the VUB – Chemistry
1989-1990
Elie Milgrom and Michel Sintzoff – Full Professor at the UCL – Computer sciences
1988-1989
Louis Philips – Full Professor at the UCL – Economical Sciences
1987-1988
Jean Weisgerber – Full Professor at the ULB and Free University of Brussels (Flemish) -Dutch Literature
1985-1986
Paul Janssen – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Pharmacology – Chemical Medicine : Morphinomimetika
1986-1987
Guillaume Wunsch – Full Professor at the UCL – Causal theory and causal modeling
1984-1985
Léon Ghosez – Full Professor at the UCL – Design in organic synthesis : basic concepts
1983-1984
Jozef Schell – Francqui Prize 1979 – Full Professor at the UG – Genetics – Genetics manipulations by plants
1982-1983
Jacques Dreze – Full Professor at the UCL – Uncertainly, labour, management and employment
1981-1982
Paul Bertelson – Full Professor at the ULB – Cognitive mechanisms in reading
1980-1981
François Rigaux – Full Professor emeritus at the UCL – Civil law
1979-1980
Jean Ladrière – Full Professor at the UCL – Phylosophy of sciences
1977-1978
Walter Soete – Full Professor at the UG – Specialist of soldering technics
1976-1977
Jean Brachet – Francqui Prize 1948 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biology – Biophysics
1975-1976
Roland Mortier – Francqui Prize 1965 – Full Professor at the ULB – Phylosophy and Literarture
1974-1975
Karel Van Isacker – Full Professor at the UA – Social History of Belgium
1973-1974
Emile Vanlommel – Full Professor at the UA – Finance
1972-1973
Marcel De Boodt – Full Professor at the UG – Agricultural sciences
1971-1972
Willy Delva – Full Professor at the UG – Family law
1969-1970
Pieter Sevenster – Full Professor at VUB – Animal psychology
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN (UCLouvain)
2022-2023
Bart Preneel – Professor KULeuven – Informatics & cryptography – Inaugural Lecture on February 8, 2023 : New Developments in Cryptography Land.
2021-2022
Nicole Van Lipzig – Professor KULeuven – Geography – Inaugural Lecture on February 22, 2022 : From equator to pole : climate change processes and impacts around the world.
Theodorus Jan (Olle) ten Cate (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor Universiteit Utrecht – Medicine and dentistry – Inaugural Lecture on Oktober 10, 2021 : How to deal with the ambitious project of reforming a curriculum.
2020-2021
Christophe Girot – Professor ETH-Zurich – Landscape Architecteur – Inaugural Lecture on April, 29, 2021 (online) Virage numérique dans le paysage : une leçon de choses
Tim Nawrot (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor UHasselt – Environmental and molecular epidemiology – Inaugural Lecture on February 1, 2021 (online) : Air pollution and health over the life course.
2019-2020
Erik Mathijs – Professor KULeuven – Bioeconomics – Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2020 – Practices for sustainable food economies
Greet Cardon (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor UGent – Movement and sports sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 27, 2020 – Is sitting too much as unhealthy as moving too little ?
2018-2019
Harry van Lenthe (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor KULeuven – Biomechanics – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2019 – Wolff’s law of bone remodeling. From the stone age to your digital twin.
Alain Vanderplasschen (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULg – Veterinary Médicine – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2019 – Les virus : anges ou démons
2017-2018
Sebastiaan Luyssaert – Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Ecological Science – Inaugural Lecture May 8, 2018 – Do forests cool the earth ?
Thierry Troosters (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor KULeuven – Phisiotherapy and Rehabilitation – Inaugural Lecture January 23, 2018 – Physical activity in clinical practice and research – Thierry Troosters cc Invitation – Affiche
2016-2017
Antoine Picon – Professor Harvard Graduate School of Disign – USA – History Architecture and Technology – Inaugural Lecture November 9, 2016 – Smart cities : entre utopies et réalité
Fabienne Dobbels – Professor at the KULeuven – Health Services and Nursing Research – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2017 – Medication nonadherence : The Achilles heel of modern healthcare
2015-2016
John Van Camp – Professor at the UGent – Applied biological sciences – Bio-engineering – Inaugural Lecture Oktober 12, 2015 – Functional foods within a healthy diet
Pierre Maquet – Professor at the ULg – Neurolgie – Inaugural Lecture April 25, 2016 – Notre petite vie est cernée de sommeil
2014-2015
Rodolphe Sepulchre – Professor Cambridge university – Control engineering – Inaugural Lecture February 4, 2015 – Encounters between the local and the global Hubs of simplicity in a complex world
Jean Schoenen – Professor at the ULg – Functional neuroanatomy – Inaugural Lecture March 26, 2015 – Migraines : take a lesson from them
2013-2014
Jean-Michel Raimong – Professor at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie – France – L’exploration et l’illustration des propriétés quantiques les plus fondamentales – Inaugural Lecture March 11, 2014 – Explorer le monde quantique avec des atomes et des cavités
Michel Georges – Francqui Prize 2008 – Professor at the ULG – Veternary MedicineInaugural Lecture November 4, 2014 – Lis-moi ton Génome, je te dirais qui tu es
2012-2013
Paola Vigano – Professor at the Université IUAV de Venise – Italy – Urbanisme et Urban design – Inaugural Lecture April 17, 2013 – Le questionnement radical en urbanisme
Lieven Annemans – Professor at the UGent – Health Economics – Inaugural Lecture February 5, 2013 – Quel système de santé pour les générations futures ?
2011-2012
Roel Merckx – Professor at the KULeuven – Agricultural Sciences – Inaugural Lecture March 14, 2012 – Bridging yield gaps in Sub Sahara Africa – more than but still a scientific challenge
Peter Hespel – Professor at the KULeuven – Biomedical Kinesiology – Inaugural Lecture March 9, 2012 – La physiologie et l’exercice au service de la performance sportive
2010-2011
Marc Parmentier – Professor at the ULB – Biomedical Sciences – Inaugural Lecture
April 4, 2011 : G protein-coupled receptors as versatile signaling platforms
Luk Van Wassenhove – Professor at the INSEAD, France – Operations Management –Inaugural Lecture April 8, 2011 : Supply chain management in the context of humanitarian disasters
2009-2010
David A. Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC – Professor at the University of Edinburgh – Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry & EPSRC Senior Research Fellow – Intermolecular associations – Inaugural Lecture March 16, 2010 : Tooling Up for Nanoworld : The « Magic » of Molecular Machines
Martial Van Der Linden – Professor at the ULg – Neuropsychology of the memory and cognitive psychopathology – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2010 : Une conception psychologique de la psychopathologie : les apports de la psychopathologie cognitive.
2008-2009
Ignaas Verpoest – Full Professor at the KUL – Matériaux composites à matrice polymère – Inaugral Lecture November 19, 2008 : Les composites : intégrer les différences pour repousser les frontières
Sonja Snacken – Full Professor at the VUB & University of Gent – Penology – Criminology – Inaugural Lecture February 20, 2009 : Prisons en Europe : pour une pénologie critique et humaniste
2007-2008
Jean-Marie Baland – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Economy and development – Inaugural Lecture March 5, 2008 : Terre, pouvoir, et équilibre politique du Chili.
Peter Carmeliet – Francqui Prize 2002 – Full Professor at the KUL – Molecular Biology – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2009 : Angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in health and diseas
2006-2007
Robert Laffineur – Full Professor at the ULg – Archeology
Reinhart Ceulemans – Full Professor at the UA – Ecology of plants and vegetation – Global change : threat or opportunity for plants ?
2005-2006
Jan Van Damme – Full Professor at the KUL – Psychology – Educational effectiveness : a status questions
François Ost – Full Professor at the FUSL – Philosophy – Theology
2004-2005
Arno Kuijlaers – Full Professor at the KUL – Mathematics – Random matrices in mathematics and physics
Stefaan Walgrave and Jan Vranken – Full Professor at the UA – Political sciences
2003-2004
Jan C. Willems – Full Professor at the KUL – Electrical engineering – Systems theory and physical models
Franklin Dehousse – Full Professor at the ULg – Law
2002-2003
Erik De Clercq – Full Professor at the KUL – Biological & medical science – Inaugural Lecture February 6, 2003 : Drug discovery and development : the bicyclam sory or how to go from antiviral therapy to many other worlds
2001-2002
Gilbert Tournoy – Full Professor at the KUL – Latine literature – History of humanism
André Huygebaert – Full Professor at the UG – Agronomy – Food safety and food quality
2000-2001
Herman De Dijn – Full Professor at the KUL – Philosophy
Jan Grootaers – Professor emeritus at the KUL – Theology and canonical law
1999-2000
Guy Karnas – Full Professor at the ULB – Psychology
Roland Souchez – Full Professor at the ULB – Geography
1998-1999
Jean-Luc Brédas – Francqui Prize 1997 – Full Professor at the UMH – Chemistry of novel materials
Aurelio Pappalardo – Full Professor at the ULB – International public law
1997-1998
Jean-Jacques Cassiman – Full Professor at the KUL – Medicine – Pediatrics
Herman Daems – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied Economy
1996-1997
Jacques Dubois – Full Professor at the ULg – Literary sociology
Willy Verstraete – Full Professor at the UG – Biotechnology
1995-1996
Paul Eelen – Full Professor at the KUL – Clinical psychology
1994-1995
Marc van Montagu – Full Professor at the UG – Molecular genetics – Why we do need transgenic plants
Isabelle Stengers – Full Professor at the ULB – Philosophy of sciences
1993-1994
Alain De Nauw – Full Professor at the VUB – Penalty law of enterprise
Michel Geradin – Full Professor at the ULg – Applied sciences
1992-1993
Jacques Dumont – Full Professeur at the ULg – Clinical biochemistry
Léo Apostel – Full Professor at the UG – Philosophy
1987-1988
Etienne Aernoudt – Full Professor at the KUL – Metallurgy
1986-1987
Henri Muller – Full Professor at the UG – Computer integrated manufacturing
1985-1986
Arsène Burny – Full Professor at the ULB and the – Agranomical Faculty of Gembloux – Virology – Cancer and retrovirus
1983-1984
Roland Mortier – Francqui Prize 1965 – Full Professor at the ULB – Histoire de la Littérature Française – La représentation de la mort dans la littérature
1982-1983
Pierre Gothot – Full Professor at the ULg – Civil Law – International Law : Law, judgement, doctrine : écrire et lire le texte juridique
1981-1982
Jacques Devooght – Full Professor at the ULB – Nuclear Engineering
1980-1981
François Duyckaerts – Full Professor at the ULg – The body and word
1979-1980
Radu Balescu – Francqui Prize 1970 – Full Professor at the ULB – Statistical mecanic
1978-1979
Robert Henrion – Full Professor at the ULB – National economy and law
1977-1978
Herman Van Den Berghe – Full Professor at the KUL – Cytogenetic
1976-1977
Hubert Chantrenne – Francqui Prize 1963 – Full Professor at the ULB – Molecular biology
1974-1975
Walter Ganshof van der Meersch – Full Professor at the ULB – Law
1973-1974
Severin Amelinckx – Full Professor at the UA – Physics
1972-1973
Marc Richelle – Full Professor at the ULg – Experimental psychology
1971-1972
Marc Van Montagu – Full Professor at the UG – Molecular genetics
1969-1970
Pieter Sevenster – Full Professor at the VUB – Experimental animal ethology and psychology
Pierre Lebrun – Full Professor at the ULg and FUNDP – Economy and history
1967-1968
Pierre-Paul Lambert – Full Professor at the ULB
Morphology and physiopothology of kidney
1966-1967
Carlos Hooft – Full Professor at the UG – The nephron syndrome
1964-1965
Baron Jean Van Houtte – Professor emeritus at the UG and Honorary Professor at the University of Liège – Law
1963-1964
René Thomas – Francqui Prize 1975 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biological and Medical sciences – La nature chimique du matériel génétique
1962-1963
Willy Dekeyser – Full Professor at the UG
1960-1961
Paul Harsin – Francqui Prize 1950 – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Human Sciences
1959-1960
Jean Brachet – Francqui Prize 1948 – Full Professor at the ULB – Biological & Medical Sciences
1958-1959
Robert Guiette – Professor emeritus at the UG – Literature
1956-1957
Guy Hirsch – Full Professor at the ULB
1955-1956
Baron Louis Fredericq
Honorary Rector at the UG and Honorary Professor at the ULB – Law
1954-1955
Jan J. Bouckaert – Honorary Rector and Professor emeritus at the UG
1952-1953
Frank Baur – Professor emeritus at the UG – Dutch literature
1951-1952
René Clemens – Full Professor at the ULg – Social sciences and legal sciences
-1951
Frans L. Ganshof – Francqui Prize 1946 – Professor emeritus at the UG – Phylosophy – Literature
1948-1949
Jérôme Rodhain – Honorary Director of Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Prince Léopold Antwerp – Biological and Medical Sciences
1947-1948
Arend Rutgers – Professor emeritus at the UG – Chemistry
1946-1947
Armand Delatte – Professor emeritus at the ULg – Classical phylology
UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR
2022-2023
Lucie Cluzer-Metayer – Professor Université de Paris Nanterre, France – Public law – Inaugural Lecture on February 16, 2023 : Quels défis pour les droits humains à l’ère de l’administration numérique ?
Ginestra Bianconi – Professor Queen Mary University of London, UK – Applied Mathematics – Inaugural Lecture on April 17, 2023 : Topology shapes higher-order network dynamics.
2021-2022
Vinciane Despret – Professor ULg – Philosophy – Inaugural Lecture on April 26, 2022 : Faire histoire avec les animaux.
Schahram Dustdar – Professor Technische Universität Wien – Institute of Information Systems Engineering – Head of the distributed systems group – Computer Science – Inaugural Lecture on March 29, 2022 : Engineering the new fabric of the compute continuum – IoT, Edge and Cloud.
2020-2021
Sophie Lucas (Collen-Franqui Chair) – Professor UCLouvain – Institute de Duve – Tumor immunology – Inaugural Lecture on February 10, 2022 : Vers l’immunothérapie dans un monde selon GARP.
Leo Van Audenhove – Professor VUB – Communication sciences – Inaugural Lecture on February 12 2021 : Theory on Media Literacy – Empowerment versus Protection.
2019-2020
Duccio Fanelli – Professor Florence University, Italy – Physics and astronomy – Inaugural on Lecture February 4, 2020 : Complex systems : physics beyond physics
Serge Gutwirth – Professor VUB – Law science technology & society – Inaugural Lecture on February 11, 2020 : Retour au droit.
2018-2019
Jean-Pierre Bertrand – Professor ULg – Philosophy and Letters – Inaugural Lecture March 7, 2019 – Influencer en littérature.
Yves Le Traon – Professor Université du Luxembourg – Information System Security Management – Inaugural Lecture November 19, 2018 – Preventive debugging : from test to repair and back again
2017-2018
Olivier Devuyst (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor Institute of physiology, University of Zurich – Nephrology – Inaugural Lecture February 15, 2018 – Architecture génétique des maladies/mieux comprendre pour mieux traiter.
Dirk Van den Poel – Professor UGent – Marketing Analytics – Inaugural Lecture March 20, 2018 – Big Data Analytics for Business – Findings, challenges and opportunities.
2016-2017
Roberto Lazzaroni – Professor at the UMons – Sciences Chimiques – Inaugural Lecture February 9, 2017 : Voir les atomes. Toucher les atomes.
Diane Roman – Professor Université François-Rabelais – France – Law – Inaugurale Lecture February 13, 2017 – Vulnérabilité et droit. Quel droit dans un monde vulnérable ?
2015-2016
Michèle Lanza – Professor University of Lugano – Informatics – Inaugural Lecture April 25, 2016 – Software Poetry
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe – Professor Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artisitque – Philosophie et Lettres – Inaugural Lecture February 3, 2016 – It’s only book painting, but I like ik. La passion des manuscrits enluminés
2014-2015
Steven Laureys – Professeur ULg – Neurology – Biomedical science – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2015 – Un si brillant cerveau. Comment la science peut-elle expliquer la conscience ?
Bram De Rock – Professor ULB – Mathematical economist – Inaugural Lecture April 2, 2015 – Intra-household decision making revealed
2013-2014
Michel Bierlaire – Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Mathematical Sciences Inaugural Lecture March 12, 2014 – Choice modeling : an introduction
Ria Janvier – Professor at the UA – Sociaal-Economisch Beleid
2012-2013
Charles Doyen – Professor at the UCLouvain – Philosophie et lettres – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2013 – La Grèce en Choeurs rémanences poétique, polyphonies politiques – Le héros épique référence plurielle
Serge Abiteboul – Professor at the Collège de France – Computer Science – Inaugural Lecture April 24, 2013 – Des données, à l’information, aux connaissances: le Web de demain
2011-2012
Emile Van Schaftingen – Professor at the UCLouvain – Head fo the Carbohydrate Metabolism Unit of the lab.of Psysiological Chemistry de Duve Institute – Inaugural Lecture February 28, 2012 – Le métabolisme intermédiaire dans l’ère génomique : l’apport des génomes dans la découverte de nouvelles enzymes.
Jef Huysmans – Professor at the Open University – UK – Security Studies – Director of Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance – Inaugural Lecture February 13, 2012 – Security and democracy : Towards a political reading of insecurity.
2010-2011
Julier Stuyck – Extraordinary Professor at the KUL – Droit Européen et droit de la consommation – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2011 : Pratiques du commerce et concurrence : vers un nouvel équilibre ?
Odile Stéphan – Professor at the Paris-Sud University – Sciences Physiques – Inaugural Lecture January 31, 2011 : Microscopie et spectroscopie électroniques : des outils pour explorer le nanomonde.
2009-2010
Didier Demolin – Professor at the ULB – Philosophy and Letters : Inaugural Lecture February 4, 2010 : La diversité des langues dans le monde
Theo D’Hondt – Professor at the VUB – Mathematics – Inaugural Lecture March 19, 2010 : On the renewed need for language engineering.
2008-2009
Jan Vanthienen – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Management de l’information – Les systèmes d’information avec un intérêts particulier pour le Business rule modeling, l’E-business, business intelligence, knowledge bases systems – Inaugural Lecture March 4, 2009 : Introducing the Intelligent Enterprise
Frédéric Houssiau – Full Professor at the UCL – Medecine – Rheumatology – Inaugural Lecture March 4, 2009 : Les multiples facettes des maladies rhumatismales inflammatoires
2007-2008
Dan Kaminiski – Full Professor at the UCL – Law – Criminology
Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2008 : Penalty, management, innovation
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo – Full Professor at the UA – Exact Sciences : Nanoscience and Advanced Electron Microscopy – Inaugural Lecture February 28, 2008 : Advanced Electron Microscopy : The Route to Nanoscience.
2006-2007
Jean-Marie Cauchies – Full Professor at the UCL – History of Belgium
Frank Piessens – Full Professor at the KUL – Computer sciences – The Challenge of building secure software
2005-2006
Luc Bauwens – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics
Jean-Yves Hayez – Full Professor at the UCL – Medicine – Neuropsychiatry
2004-2005
Paul Martens – Full Professor at the ULg and Free University of Brussels (French) – Law
Jean-Marc Gerard – Full Professor at the KUL – Theoretical physic
2003-2004
Koen de Bosschere – Full Professor at the UG – Computer Architecture
Pierre Courtoy – Full Professor at the UCL – Medicine, cellular biology
2002-2003
Alain Bultez – Full Professor at the FUCaM – Economics – Econometry
Jean-Michel Counet – Full Professor at the UCL – Philosophy – Theology
2001-2002
Laurence Wolsley – Full Professor at the UCL – Econometry
Eric David – Full Professor at the Free ULB – International public law
2000-2001
Jean-Jacques Quisqater – Full Professor at the UCL Mathematics and computer science
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg – Full Professor at the ULg – Linguistic
1999-2000
Michel Goldman – Full Professor at the ULB – Immunology
Jean-François Thisse – Full Professor at the UCL – Economics
-1999
Yves-Herni Bouquet – Full Professor at the ULg – Veterinary medicine
Marcel Fontaine – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
1997-1998
Marc Waelkens – Full Professor at the KUL – Philosophy and literature
Pierre Wolper – Full Professor at the ULg – Computer science
1996-1997
Gustave Moonen – Full Professor at the ULg – Human physiology and physiopathology
Hugues Dumont – Full Professor at the FUSL – Public Law
1995-1996
Piet Sercu – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied economics – Business finance and the international capital markets in the ninetiese
Jean-Paul Issi – Full Professor at the UCL – Transport phenomena in low-dimensional and mesoscopic systems
1994-1995
José Gotovitch – Full Professor at the ULB – Sociology – Philosophy and literatur
Jean-Michel Foidart – Full Professor at the ULg – Gynecology et obstetrics
1993-1994
Maurice Bruynooghe – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied sciences – Logic programming
and
Daniel De Schreye – Full Professor at the KUL – Mathematics
Jean-Luc Bredas – Francqui Prize 1997 – Full Professor at the UMH – Chemistry of novel materials
1992-1993
José Lambert – Full Professor at the KUL – Latin philology
André Sapir – Full Professor at the ULB – Economics
1991-1992
François Rigaux – Professor emeritus at the UCL – Law
Chris Van Haesendonck – Full Professor at the KUL – Physics – Mesoscopic Physics
1990-1991
Christian de Duve – Nobel Prize Medicine 1974 – Francqui Prize 1960 – Full Professor at the UCL – Cellular and molecular pathology
Daniel Ribbens – Full Professor at the ULg – Applied sciences
1989-1990
Jean-Jacques Lambin – Full Professor at the UCL – Applied economics
1988-1989
Guy Jucquois – Full Professor at the UCL – Classic philosophy
1987-1988
Jacques Pasteels – Full Professor at the ULB – Ecology, ethology, physiology of insect and entomology
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP (UA)
2022-2023
Britta van Beers – Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL – Philosophy of law – Inaugural Lecture on April 25, 2023 : Het einde van de juridische persoon?
Mieke Van Houtte – Professor UGent – Sociology – Inaugural Lecture on November 30, 2022 : Societal expectations of education.
2021-2022
Ann Dooms – Professor VUB – Mathematics and data science – Inaugural Lecture on February 22, 2022 : Those who kan imagine anything, can create the impossible.
Per t. Sangild (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor University of Copenhagen – Comparative Pediatrics and Nutrition – Veterinary Science – Inaugural Lecture on April 26, 2022 : Survival of weak newborns – how to do science around birth.
2020-2021
Jo Dewulf – Professor UGent – Green Chemistry and Technology – Inaugural Lecture April 21, 2021 (online) : De definitieve uitputting van grondstoffen zoals metalen als gevolg van de klimaataanpak
Ann Rigney – Professor Utrecht University – Comparative Literature – Inaugural Lecture May 10, 2021 (online) : Stories in the Wild: How Public Life is Shaped by Narrative.
2019-2020
Siem Jan Koopman – Professor Vrije Universteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Econometrics – Inaugural Lecture November 30, 2020 via visioconference : The econometrics of time-varying parameters
Luc De Raedt – Professor KULeuven – Artificiële intelligentie, machine learning, en data science – Inaugural Lecture March 12, 2020 : The artificial intelligence and machine Learning revolutions
2018-2019
Margot E Salomon – Professor London School of Economics and Political Science – Law and Human Rights – Inaugural Lecture February 21, 2019 : On the Structure of Suffering: Political Economy, Human Rights and Silent Spaces
Sabina De Geest (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor KULeuven & Universität Basel – Medicine and healt sciences – Inaugural Lecture March 15, 2019 : Implementation science : Making research findings more powerful for clinical use
2017-2018
Vera Rogiers – Professor VUB – Pharmaceutical, biomedical and veterinary medicine – Inaugural Lecture December 8, 2017 – 3R-alternatieve methoden in de toxicologie. Waar staan we vandaag
Cas Mudde – Professor University of Georgia, United Kingdom- Expert populisme en euroscepticisme – Inaugurale Lecture March 8, 2018 – From the Margins to the Mainstream : Three Decades of the Populist Radical Right
2016-2017
Andy van den Dobbelsteen – Professor Delft University – Technical Sciences – Inaugural Lecture March 6, 2017 – Slim ontwerpen voor een duurzame toekomst
Jeroen Raes – Professor at the KULeuven Microbiology and Immunology – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2017 – You and your 100 trillion friends – the Human Gut Microbiome in health and disease
2015-2016
Herman Terryn – Professor at the VUB – Materials and Chemistry – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2016 – Het mysterie van het metaal : corrosie en bescherming van metalen
Peter Mariën – Professor at the VUB – Arts, Linguistics – Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2016 – Spraakmakende hersenen
2014-2015
Isabelle Thomas – Professor aan de UCLouvain – Ruimtelijke Economie en Economische geografie – Inaugural Lecture March 4, 2015 – Measuring and modeling in economic and transport geography : challenges and opportunities
Jan De Maeseneer – Professor aan de UGent – Huisartsgeneeskunde – Inaugural Lecture February 26, 2015 – Primary health care at the crossroad in service delivery, research and policy development (in English)
2013-2014
Peter Vandenabeele – Professor at the UGent – Biological Sciences – Inaugural Lecture February 20, 2014 – Many ways to die general mechanisms and intercellular aspects
Vincenz Hediger – Professor at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main – Network of Cinema and Media Studies – Inaugural Lecture February 25, 2014 – The Miracle of Realism. André Bazin and Contemporary Media Culture
2012-2013
Johan Martens – Professor at the KULeuven – Bioscience Engineering – Inaugural Lecture February 21, 2013 – The World of Nanoporous Materials
Simon Deakin – Professor at the Cambridge University – Acting Director, Centre for Business Research – Law – Inaugural Lecture October 25, 2012 : The Entreprise in Tort Law
2011-2012
Paul Rutgeerts – Professor at the KULeuven – Inaugural Lecture January 18, 2012 : Ziekte van Crohn : van afte tot floriede darmontsteking
René Boomkens – Professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen – Social and culture philosophy – Inaugural Lecture October 16, 2012 – Het gezonde volksgevoel ? Over het nieuwe nationalisme en populisme
2010-2011
Poul Hyttel – Professor Dr. at the Kopenhagen University, Denmark – Veterinary Sciences Inaugural Lecture October 12, 2011 – Omnia ex ovo – all things come from the egg (William Harvey, 1651)
Geert Van Hootegem – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Sociologie du travail – Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2011 : Anders werken & beter organiseren. De voorspellingen voorbij ?
2009-2010
Werner Rothengatter – Professor Dr. emeritus at the University of Karlsruhe – Head of the Institute of Economic Policy Research and of the Unit of Transport and Communication – Transportnet-netwerk – Inaugural Lecture March 15, 2010 : Development of Freight Transport and Logistics after the Economic Crisis.
Paul Michel Van Dooren – Professor at the UCL – Wiskundige Ingenieurswetenschappen : numerieke lineaire algebra, systeem- en regeltheorie, grafen en netwerpen. Inaugural Lecture April 19, 2010 : From Gauss to Google : why matrices matter
2008-2009
Baudouin Dupret – Researcher at the CNRS Paris-France – Sciences politiques – Droit – Journalistique – Islamologie – Practices of truth : lectures on the praxiological study of truth practices in different Arab contexts – Inaugural Lecture March 16, 2009 : Truth : A matter of language games and practical achievements
Geert Molenberghs – Full Professor at the UH – Biosatistiek en statistische Bioinformatica – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2009 : The applied statistical scientist in a high-profile academic environment.
2007-2008
Michel Herman – Full Professor at the ULB – Molecular chemistry – Inaugural Lecture February 12, 2008 : Vibrational Alchemy from Spectro to Astro, through Femto and Nano
Jozef Van Langendonck – Emeritus Professor at the KUL – Social law – Inaugural Lecture February 13, 2008 : another look on the social security – globalisation and social security.
2006-2007
Jean-Paul Remon – Full Professor at the UG – Pharmaceutical sciences
Jo Tollebeek – Full Professor at the KUL – Historian – Dagboekbladen – Voor een antropologie van de moderne geschiedwetenschap
2005-2006
Erik Schokkaert – Full Professor at the KUL – Economics
Dirk Inzé – Francqui Prize 2005 – Full Professor at the UG – Botanical – Plant growth : a cell division perspective
2004-2005
Mark Waer – Full Professor at the KUL – Medicine – Immunology
Aimé Heene – Full Professor at the UG – Political and social sciences
2003-2004
Joël Vandekerkhove – Full Professor at the UG – Biochemistry – The cinderella of King genomics
Jacques Dubois – Full Professor at the ULg – Latin philology
2002-2003
Philippe Lambin – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Natural science – Carbon nanotubes, their properties and applications
Luc Sels – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied economics science
2001-2002
Hugo Soly – Full Professor at the VUB – History
Marcel Fontaine – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
2000-2001
Benjamin Van Camp – Full Professor at the VUB – Immunology – Microbiology
Marc Dewatripont – Francqui Prize 1998 – Full Professor at the ULB – Incentives in markets and organizations – Financing systems, risk taking and innovation
1999-2000
Luc Van Poecke – Full Professor at the KUL – Communication science
Pierre Verbaeten – Full Professor at the KUL – Computer science
1998-1999
Ronny Lesthaeghe – Full Professor at the VUB – Sociology
Hendrik Van Gorp – Full Professor at the KUL – Germanic philology
1997-1998
Koenraad Lenaerts – Full Professor at the KUL – Law
Francis Borceux – Full Professor at the UCL – Mathematics
Marc Govaerts – Full Professor at the KUL – Mathematics
1996-1997
Philippe Van Parijs – Francqui Prize 2001 – Full Professor at the UCL – Social philosophy
Piet Vanden Abbele – Full Professor at the KUL – Marketing science
1995-1996
Jean-Michel Foidart – Full Professor at the ULg – The key role of cell-cell contacts and cell-matrix interactions
Jean-Luc Bredas – Francqui Prize 1997 – Full Professor at the UMH – Novel organic materials : The challenges ahead
1994-1995
Mark Elchardus – Full Professor at VUB – Sociology
Christian Angelet – Full Professor at the KUL – Latin philology
1993-1994
Jan Vinck – Full Professor at the LUC – Medicine and pharmacy
Francis Delperée – Full Professor at the UCL – Law
1992-1993
Jacques Pasteels – Full Professor at the ULB – Zoology – Chemical ecology : The study of chemical interactions between organisms
Michel Franchimont – Full Professor at the ULg – Criminology – Criminal Law
1991-1992
Charles Van Wymeersch – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Economics
Filip G. Droste – Full Professor at the KUL – Dutch language and literature
1990-1991
Erik De Clercq – Full Professor at the KUL – Biology
Guy Rousseau – Full Professor at the UCL – Cellular and molecular pathology – Hormonal control of vertebrate gene transcription
1989-1990
Rudolf Boehm – Full Professor at the UG – Modern Filosofy – Literatur
1987-1988
Désiré Collen – Francqui Prize 1984 – Full Professor at the KUL – Molecular biochimistry
1986-1987
Hubert Ooghe – Full Professor at the UG – Finance
1985-1986
Jean-Marie André – Francqui Prize 1991 – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Recent aspects of the electronic structure of polymers
1974-1975
Willy Delva – Full Professor at the UG – Family law
UNIVERSITY OF MONS (UMH)
2022-2023
Pedro-José Arrazola – Professor Mondragon University, Spain – Mechanical Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering – Inaugural Lecture May 8, 2023 : Future of Machining: trends, modelling and impact of near net shape processes such as Additive Manufacturing.
2019-2020
Thierry Paquot – Professor Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, France – Architecture & Urbanisme – Inaugural Lecture February 20, 2020 – Une terre urbaine sans ville ?
2018-2019
Maurizio Prato – Professor Trieste University, Italia – Chimie organique – Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2019 : Possible solutions to « impossible » challenges : from alternative energies to new therapies
2017-2018
Jean Guichard – Emeritus Professor – Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris – Orientation et conseil tout au long de la vie – Inaugural Lecture February 1, 2018 : Concevoir, construire sa vie et s’orienter dans un monde en crise. Un siècle d’accompagnement en orientation : vers quel avenir ?
2016-2017
Marcelo Wanderley – Professor McGill University – Canada – Music Technology Area – Inaugural Lecture October 5, 2017 – Easier said than done – On more than two decades of applied multidisciplinary research across engineering
2015-2016
Pierre Merlin – Professor em. Université de Paris I – Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire – Inaugural Lecture December 10, 2015 – Qu’est-ce que l’urbanisme ? Origines, théories fondatrices, statut, évolution historique
2014-2015
Georges Felouzis – Professeur Université de Genève – Suisse – Sociologie – Inaugural Lecture February 9, 2015 – Inégalités scolaires et politiques d’éducation : questions, débats et analyses
2013-2014
Marc Leman – Professor at the UGent – Musicology – Inaugural Lecture March 13, 2014 -The power of Music : An Embodied Viewpoint on Music, Gesture, Emotion and their Technological Applications in Education, Rehabilitation and Entertainment
2012-2013
Wolfgang Thomas – Professor at the RWTH-Aachen-Germany – Computer Science – Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2013 – Logic, Algorithms, and automata : a historical journey
2010-2011
Pierre A. Michel – Emeritus Professor at the ULg – Finance – Inaugural Lecture March 14, 2011 : Analyse financière de l’entreprise : science ou art du décryptage et de l’interprétation
2005-2006
Robert Jerome – Full Professor at the ULg – Chemistry
1998-1999
Jean-Pierre Tignol – Full Professor at the UCL – Mathematics
1997-1998
André Persoons – Full Professor at the KUL – Chemistry
1974-1975
Amand Lucas – Francqui Prize 1985 – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Exact sciences
GEMBLOUX AGRO-BIO TECH/ULg
2022-2023
Koen Dewettinck (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor UGent – Bioscience engineering – Food technology – Inaugural Lecture on November 9, 2022 : Product innovation in an ever-changing complex food system.
2019-2020
Monica Höfte – Professor UGent – Phytopathology – Inaugural Lecture February 18, 2020 : From crop protection to plant health management
2018-2019
Jérôme Chave – Professor Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Toulouse, France – Recherche Lab. Evolution et Diversité Biologique – Inaugural Lecture on March 18, 2019 : Les forêts tropicales et le changement climatique
2016-2017
Philippe Doré – Professor AgroParis Tech – Agroecology
2014-2015
Thérèse Rivasseau Jonveaux – Professeur Centre Paul Spillman, Nancy – France – Psychologie – Inaugural Lecture : March 31, 2015 – Homo hortus, l’homme jardin
2012-2013
Dominique Belpomme – Professor at the Paris Descartes – Paris V – Cancérologie – Inaugural Lecture : March 13, 2013 : Pesticides et santé : l’arroseur arrosé?
2011-2012
Bruno Parmentier – Directeur Général Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie d’Angers – France – Inaugural Lecture : February 7, 2012 : Nourrir l’humanité dans un monde surpeuplé aux ressources naturelles de plus en plus rares.
2010-2011
Hervé This – Professor at the Université Paris XI Adjunct Director of the UMR 214 INRA/AgroParis Tech – Ingénierie biologique, de l’agriculture et de l’environnement – Inaugural Lecture : March 23, 2011 : La gastronomie moléculaire : un regard scientifique sur la cuisine. Comment notre alimentation en sortira-t-elle changée ?
2009-2010
Philippe Ciais – Professor Dr. Directeur associé du Laboratoire des Sciences du climat et de l’Environnement 5LSCE, Saclay – France – ClimatologY – Field « Ecosystèmes, cylce du carbone et climat : aujourd’hui et demain – Inaugural Lecture : February 25, 2010 : Peut-on compter sur les puits de carbone ?
2008-2009
Jean-Louis Deneubourg – Full Professor at the ULB – Sciences de l’information et la robotique – Inaugural Lecture : March 11, 2009 : Peut-on vivre en société avec des robots ? L’auto-organisation dans les systèmes naturels et artificiels
2007-2008
Willy Verstraete – Flemish Nobel Prize – FWO 2005 Exact Sciences – Full Professor at the UG – Biotechnology – Microbial resource management : the road to go for environmental biotechnology Inaugural Lecture : March 6, 2008 : Gestion des ressources microbiennes : vers une nouvelle biotechnologie environnementale.
2006-2007
Geert Molenberghs – Full Professor at the UH – Biostatistics – The applied statistical scientist in a high-profile academic environment
2005-2006
Firouzeh Nahavandi – Full Professor at the ULB -Sociology – Cooperation and development
2004-2005
Martin Hermy – Professor at the KULeuven – Ecology, protection of the nature – Inaugural Lecture March 9, 2005 : New insights in the effects of former history, including framentation, on plant species diversity, plant species composition of temperate forests and on society
2003-2004
Paul Rouxhet – Full Professor at the UCL – Chemistry of interfaces
2002-2003
Raymond Hanus – Full Professor at the ULB – Automatisation and control of technological systems
2001-2002
Johan de Tavernier – Full Professor at the UCL – Ethical agronomy
2000-2001
Albéric Monjoie – Full Professor at the ULg – Agronomy – Geology
1998-1999
Daniel Demeyer – Full Professor at the UG – Zootechnics
UNIVERSITE SAINT-LOUIS
2022-2023
David Bellos – Professor Princeton University, USA – Comparative Literature – Inaugural Lecture on March 13, 2023 : Les mots et les choses : l’objet de travail du traducteur.
2021-2022
Barbara Stiegler – Professor Université Bordeaux-Montaigne – Political philosophy – Inaugural Lecture on April 20, 2022 : L’esprit de l’Université, laboratoire de la démocratie »
2020-2021
Eva Brems – Professor UGent – Public law and tax law – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2021 (online) : Human Rights Challenges through the Lens of the Covid-19 Pandemic
2019-2020
Bruno De Witte – Professor Maastricht University, the Netherlands, European Law – Inaugural Lecture October 24, 2020 : Le droit constitutionnel de l’Union européenne comme instrument et contrainte des politiques publiques européennes.
2018-2019
Estelle Cantillon – Professor ULB – Directrice de recherches au FNRS, spécialisée en économie – Inaugural Lecture March 11, 2019 : En revisitant Hayek : comment concevoir les marchés pour qu’ils atteignent leurs objectifs ?
2017-2018
André Markowicz – Writer and great specialist of the translation and its stakes – Inaugural Lecture March 20, 2018 : Traduire, écrire – écrire, traduire : quarante ans de voyages à travers les textes
2016-2017
Shlomo Sand – Professor em. Tel Aviv University – Israel – Historicus – Inaugurale Lecture March 15, 2017 : L’histoire aujourd’hui, transformation ou crépuscule ?
2015-2016
Bernard Dubuisson – Professor at the UCLouvain – Droit des obligations extra-contractuelles
with
Sophie Stijns – Professor at the KULeuven – Droit des obligations contractuelles
Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2016 : Faut-il réformer le code civil ?Réponses et méthodologie pour le droit des obligations contractuelles et extra-contractuelles
2014-2015
Justine Lacroix – Professeur à l’ULB – Théorie politique et pensée politique contemporaine – Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2015 – Droit de l’homme et politique
2013-2014
Bernard Rimé – emeritus Professor at the UCLouvain – Social Psychology – Inaugural Lecture February 18, 2014 – Le partage social des émotions, aspects individuels, interpersonnels et collectifs
2011-2012
Jean-Michel Adam – Professor at the Université de Lausanne – Suisse – Inaugural Lecture February 16, 2012 – Sciences du texte pour le XXIme siècle : Décloisonner les « Humanités »
2010-2011
Philippe Mary – Professor at the ULB – Law and criminology – Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2011 – Enjeux contemporains de la prison
2009-2010
François Maniquet – Professor at the UCL – Economical sciences and theory of social choice – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2010 : Le rapport Stiglitz signe-t-il l’arrêt de mort de l’économie du bien-être ?
2007-2008
Jean-Louis Besson – Full Professor at the UCL – Literature – Inaugural Lecture March 17, 2008 : Traduction et théâtralité : Kleist, Büchner, Müller.
2006-2007
Xavier Thunis – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Comparative law
2005-2006
Albert Basternier and Felice Dasseto – Full Professors at the UCL – Human science – Immigration
2004-2005
Pierre Mertens – Full Professor emeritus at the ULB – Literature
2003-2004
Jean-Claude Scholsem – Full Professor at the ULg – Constitutional law
2002-2003
André Sapir – Full Professor at the ULB – Economics
2001-2002
Michel Demoulin – Full Professor at the UCL – De l’Europe rêvée à l’Europe en action
2000-2001
Pascal Delwit – Full Professor at the ULB – Political science
1999-2000
Françoise Tulkens – Full Professor at the UCL – Law – Human rights, rhetoric or reality ?
1998-1999
Philippe Van Parijs – Francqui Prize 2001 – Full Professor at the UCL – Philosophy and literatur
HUB-KuBrussel Hogechool Universiteit Brussel
2012-2013
Paul Davies – Professor at the Oxford University – Vennootschapsrecht – Inaugural Lecture February 21, 2013 : Designing financial regulation : what we have learned from the financial crisis
2011-2012
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele – Professor at the UCLouvain – Climatology – Inaugural Lecture November 22, 2011 : Durban 2011 last chance to forge a follow-up protocol for Kyoto ?
2010-2011
Gugliemo Cinque – Professor at the Universita Ca’Foscari di Venezia – Linguistics – Inaugural Lecture January 20, 2011 : In Search of Universal Grammar.
2009-2010
Koenraad Debackere – Professor Dr. at the KUL – Economie en Management – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2010 : Great expectations : innovation myths & realities.
2007-2008
René Foqué – Full Professor at the KUL– Legal philosophy – Inaugural Lecture February 22, 2008 : De actualiteit van Montesquieus constitutionalisme in Europees perspectief
2005-2006
Vincent Yzerbyt – Full Professor at the UCL – Psychology – A world of identities : The social context of emotions
Hugo Hens – Full Professor at the KUL – Applied science – Architecture
2003-2004
Bea Cantillon – Full Professor at the UA – Social politics
2002-2003
Marnix Van Damme – Full Professor at the VUB – Law
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN en HAINAUT (UCL-MONS)
2022-2023
Benjamin Huybrechts – Professor (IESEG School of Management) Lille – France – Business and society – Inaugural Lecture on October 10, 2022 : Transitioning towards sustainable business : social enterprise as a source of inspirations
Serge Schiffman MD (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor ULB – Neurophysiology – Inaugural Lecture on February 6, 2023 : Flashing Brain Networks : from functions to future therapeutics in and out the brain ?
2021-2022
Ann Buysse – Professor UGent – Psychology – Interpersonal relationships within the family and couple relationships – Inaugural Lecture on February 16, 2022 : (Un)Taking Family : Until the lions have a voice, the glory of the hunt will always be the tale of the hunter » (Nigerian proverb)0
2020-2021
Piet Desmet – Vicerector & Professor KULeuven Campus Kulak – Kortrijk – Linguistics – Romance Philology – Inaugural Lecture on Oktober 18, 2021 – L’enseignement/apprentissage des langues à l’ère du numérique.
2019-2020
Michel Pâques – Extraordinary Professor ULg – Droit administratif et de contentieux – Inaugural Lecture on March 11, 2020 : Le droit administratif, l’incertitude et la sécurité juridique.
2018-2019
François Pichault – Professor ULg – Sociology – Inaugural Lecture on December 10, 2018 : L’accompagnement des entreprises à l’heure de la digitalisation : quel rôle pour l’Université?
2017-2018
Philippe Lefebvre – Professor Université de Fribourg, Swiss – Theology – Inaugural Lecture on March 1, 2018 : Manger la chair et boire le sang : une « obsession » biblique organisée
2016-2017
Koen Geens – Extraordinary Professor at the KULeuven – Law – Inaugural Lecture on February 17, 2017 : What matters most in corporate governance : law, control, democracy or agency ?
2015-2016
Martin Valcke – Professor at the UGent – Psychology and Education – Inaugural Lecture on February 8, 2016 – Stop teaching make them work
2014-2015
Walter Melion – Professeur – Emory University – USA – Arts et Lettres
2013-2014
Xavier Dieux – Professor at the ULB – Law – Inaugural Lecture May 28, 2014 – Logos & Praxis
2012-2013
Luc Van Campenhoudt – Professor at the FUSL – Sociologie – Inaugural Lecture February 6, 2013 – L’Université dans la société de la (mé)connaisance.
2010-2011
Claude Roosens – Professor at the UCL – Spécialiste des relations internationales et de l’analyse institutionnelle de la politique étrangère – Inaugural Lecture on February 7, 2011 – La politique étrangère de la Belgique. Entre contraintes, puissance et diplomatie.
2009-2010
Hans Degryse – Professor at the Tilburg University – Economics – Inaugural Lecture February 8, 2010 : Competition and Regulation in Banking and Financial Markets
2007-2008
Jan Baetens – Professor at the KUL – Literature – Inaugural Lecture on March 4, 2008 : An other definition of culture.
2002-2003
Yves Poullet – Full Professor at the FUNDP – Law
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN/CAMPUS KORTRIJK (KULAK)
2022-2023
Antal van den Bosch – Professor Utrecht University, NL – Directeur Meertens Instituut en Research fellow European Association for Artificial Intelligence. – Language, Communication and Computation – Inaugural Lecture on February 23, 2023 : 1001 manieren om hetzelfde te zeggen : Computermodellen van taalvariatie.
2021-2022
André U. Janssen – Professor Radbout University – NL – Law – Inaugural Lecture on April 22, 2022 (online) : Performance by artificial intelligence : the end of contract law as we know it.
2020-2021
David Mooney – Professor Harvard University – Chemical Engineering – Inaugural Lecture on April 1, 2021 (online) : Tissue engineering : from stem cells to stoft robotics.
2019-2020
Anne-Marie Pache – Professor ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pointoise, France – The intersection of organizational theory and social innovation – Inaugural Lecture on December 16, 2020 (online) : The promise of hybrid organizing : how to achieve both social and financial goals?
2018-2019
Martin A. Hogg – Professor Edingburgh Law School – Law & Language – Inaugural Lecture on March 11, 2019 – The law of promise : contract’s poor relation ?
2017-2018
Rose Luckin – Professor University College, London – UK- Learner Centred Design – Inaugural Lecture on March 22, 2018 – Who moved my intelligence ? How education can use artificial intelligence to boost human intelligence.
2016-2017
Andreas Greinacher – Professor Univ. Hospital and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Univ. of Greifswald – Duistland – Immunology and Transfusion – Inaugural Lecture November 23, 2016 – The progress comes in nanometers – how biophysics and immunohematology together unravel mechanisms of autoimmunity
2015-2016
Sylviane Granger – Professor at the UCLouvain – Corpus Linguistics – Inaugural Lecture February 16, 2016 – Linguistics in the digital age. Is corpus linguistics revolutionizing foreign language learning and translation studies ?
2013-2014
Bart Staels – Professor at the Institut Pasteur de Lille – France – Pharmacist – Inaugural Lecture March 19, 2014 – Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases : modern time epidemics in an evolving environment of sedentarity and excess calorie consumption.
2012-2013
Stephan Dercon – Professor at the Oxford University – Development Economics – Inaugural Lecture February 20, 2013 – Africa, the next growth miracle?
2011-2012
Rob Martens – Professeur at the Leiden University – Education and Technology – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2012 – Zelfgedetermineerd leren met ICT: tussen vrijheid en verdwalen
2009-2010
Sarah Elizabeth Worthington Professor at the (London School of Economics – UK) – Handelsrecht, Vennootschapsrecht en Economisch recht – Inaugural Lecture Oktober 29, 2009 : The unique charm of the common law
HASSELT UNIVERSITY
2022-2023
Pierre J. Verlinden – Professor University of New South Wales, Australia and Sun Yat-Sen University, China – Photovoltaic Technology.
Constantinos (Costas) Antoniou – Professor Technical University of Munich, Germany – Transportation Systems Engineering – Inaugural Lectur May 22, 2023 : Transport, open data en artificiële intelligentie – Uitdagingen en opportuniteiten.
2021-2022
André Loeckx – Professor em. KULeuven – Architecture – Inaugural Lecture March 17, 2022 : Urban Renewal.
Paul Lemmens – Belgian judge in the European Court of Human Rights – Human Rights – Inaugural Lecture January 18, 2022 : Mensenrechten in Europa : uitdagingen voor de natiobale rechters en het Europees Hof voor de Rechten Mens
2020-2021
David Beljonne – Professor UMons – Chemistry of novel materials – Inaugural Lecture September 17, 2021 : A computational microscope view on organic electronics.
David Stern – Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University – Applied energy and environmental economy – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2021 (online) : Economic Growth and the Environment
2019-2020
Jo Nijs (Collen-Francqui Chair) – Professor VUB – Physical education & kinesitherapy – Inaugural Lecture February 13, 2020 – Chronic pain : not words but deeds or deeds by words
Zeger Debyser (Collen-Francqui Chair) Extraordinary Professor KULeuven – Moleculair virology & gentherapy – Inaugural Lecture March 2, 2020 : Moleculaire Geneeskunde, en reisverhaal langs HIV/AIDS, leukemie en gentherapie.
2018-2019
Georges Yannis – Professor National Technical University of Athens – Verkeersveiligheid en Management – Inaugural Lecture March 19, 2019 – Road safety challenges in the digital era – Is digitalisation boosting road safety ?
Johan Vande Lanotte – Extraordinary Professor UGent – Gronwettelijk Recht en Human Rights – Inaugural Lecture April 25, 2019 – Vrije meningsuiting en het recht te kwetsen: noodzaak of bedreiging van de democratie?
2017-2018
René De Koster – Professor Rotterdam School of Management van Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands – Logistics and operations management – Inaugural Lecture April 26, 2018 – Robotisering in distributiecentra: State of the art en onderzoeksopportuniteiten
Peter J. Diggle – Professor Lancaster University, UK – Health informatics, computing and statistics – Peter Diggle Affiche – Inaugural Lecture May 18, 2018 – A short courses in model-based geostatistics
2016-2017
Ahmed Elghazouli – Professor Imperial College London – Structural Engineering – Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2017 – Structural engineering for extreme loads
2015-2016
Jürgen Steimle – Professor Max Plank Institute for Informatics – Human computer interaction – Inaugural Lecture February 23, 2016 – The future of interaction from paper displays to interactive skin
2014-2015
Emilio Tunon Alvarez – Professeur Escuela Tecnica de Arquitectura – Madrid – Architecture – Inaugural Lecture April 20, 2015 – Musac : Six Landscapes
2013-2014
Stefan Janssens – Professor at the KULeuven – Gen- en celtherapie – Inaugural Lecture January 22, 2014 – Uitdagingen in de behandeling van kransslagaderlijden in 2014
2012-2013
Ingrid Opdebeek – Professor at the UA – Rechtsbestuur – Inaugural Lecture October 10, 2013 – Het bestuursrecht anno 2013 : te veel regels, te weinig recht(vaardigheid) ?
2011-2012
Robert Christian Kloosterman – Professor at the University of Amsterdam – Social and Economic History – Inaugural Lecture March 8, 2012 – Migrantenondernemers in veranderende steden : nieuwe ronde, nieuwe kansen ?
Report of the Francqui Chair
2010-2011
Anthony Christopher Davison – Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Statistics – Inaugural Lecture March 28, 2011 – Likelihood inference for a problem in particle physics
2009-2010
Wim Robberecht – Professor at the KUL – Neurowetenschappen – Neuromusculaire aandoeningen (zoals amyotrofische lateraalsclerose, erfelijke spastische paraparese, perifere neuropathieën, myasthenia gravis en aanverwanten) en spierzieken – Inaugural Lecture April 28, 2010 : De bochtige weg naar een behandeling voor amyotrofische laterale sclerose.