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11 12, 2019

“Histoire des zoos par les animaux”, a new book by Violette Pouillard

swingFwaAdmin2021-10-14T12:07:06+02:0011 December 2019|

In this essay, Wiener-Anspach Alumna Violette Pouillard traces the history of zoological gardens from the perspective of animals, focusing on Paris' Jardin des Plantes and on the zoos of London and Antwerpen, from their opening at the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Dr Pouillard was granted [...]

20 05, 2019

When science meets commitment: interview with our Alumnus Jonathan Mboyo Esole

swingFwaAdmin2022-09-09T10:33:21+02:0020 May 2019|

Jonathan Mboyo Esole was born in the Congo and he studied at the ULB and Cambridge. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University. In March 2018 he received the Next Einstein Award, recognising Africa’s best young scientists and technologists. Alongside his academic activity, he [...]

23 01, 2019

The ULB Faculty of law and criminology pays homage to our Alumnus Marc Sanda Kimbimbi

swingFwaAdmin2022-05-17T13:25:29+02:0023 January 2019|

By a happy chance, we have reconnected with one of our Alumni, Marc Sanda Kimbimbi, who was a postgraduate fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1978-1979. In December Mr Kimbimbi came to Brussels to receive the first prize of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université libre [...]

14 12, 2018

Amélie Deblauwe and the art of digitising ancient texts

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:29:44+01:0014 December 2018|

Wiener-Anspach Alumna Amélie Deblauwe, Senior Digitisation Technician at the University of Cambridge, is among the experts photographed in the December issue of National Geographic, featuring an article entitled "Inside the cloak-and-dagger search for sacred texts". Amélie was photographed with her colleague Błażej Mikuła from the Cambridge University Library’s Digital [...]

26 10, 2018

The Belgian weekly magazine Le Vif features two Wiener-Anspach Alumni, Clémence Mathieu and Daniel Zamora

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:30:00+01:0026 October 2018|

It is not often that two of our Alumni are featured in a single issue of a magazine: it happened last week in Le Vif. The Belgian magazine published a portrait of Clémence Mathieu, Director of the International Carnival and Mask Museum in Binche, who was granted a Wiener-Anspach [...]

16 04, 2018

In the press: our Alumnus, Jonathan Mboyo Esole

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:30:41+01:0016 April 2018|

Recently, there has been a lot of news in the press, online and on the radio about FWA Alumnus Jonathan Mboyo Esole (2001/2002, Mathematics at Cambridge). Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University, Jonathan is the recipient of a Next Einstein Award, recognising Africa’s best young [...]

20 10, 2017

The birth of an international legal career: interview with our Alumna Ayesha Vardag

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:30:50+01:0020 October 2017|

Ayesha Vardag is the President and founder of top family law firm Vardags. In 1990/1991 she was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to study at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In this interview, published in our 2016 Activity Report, she recalls the racy year she spent in Brussels and explains how [...]

27 09, 2017

In the press: our Alumna Victoria Van Lennep, co-founder of Lendable, “the next generation lending platform”

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:31:05+01:0027 September 2017|

Wiener-Anspach Alumna Victoria Van Lennep is the co-founder with Martin Kissinger of Lendable, an online lending platform that "aims to undercut banks on speed, red tape and price", as The Independent recently wrote. Victoria was granted a postgraduate fellowship in 2012/2013 to undertake an MSc in Nature, Society and [...]

24 01, 2017

On the path to diplomacy: interview with Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Pierre Vaesen

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:31:20+01:0024 January 2017|

Pierre Vaesen, Honorary Ambassador of Belgium, recalls his experience in the Seventies at the University of Cambridge and coments on his long diplomatic career. You left with a scholarship from the Foundation for the 1973/74 academic year. How, at that time, did you find this opportunity? Was it a [...]

16 03, 2015

Empathy, rhetoric, democracy: an interview with Victor Ferry

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:32:09+01:0016 March 2015|

In 2014/2015 Victor Ferry, PhD in Arts, was granted a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a research entitled "Exercising empathy: Rhetorics of others' points of view", under the supervision of Dr Fiona Macintosh at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. In this interview he presents the topic challenges [...]

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