These prestigious prizes, awarded every five years by the FNRS, are intended to confirm the international recognition and crown the careers of researchers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, in all scientific disciplines.
Following an assessment by 6 independent international juries made up of some thirty leading scientists, the FNRS Board of Directors has just made official the list of prize-winning scientists.
- The Basic Exact Sciences Prize (Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize) is awarded to Nicolas Cerf, Professor of Quantum Mechanics and Information Theory and Director of the Centre for Quantum Information and Computing at ULB.
- The Applied Exact Sciences Prize (Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize) goes to François-Xavier Standaert, FNRS Research Director in the Crypto Group at UCLouvain.
- The Basic Biomedical Sciences Prize (Prix Joseph Maisin) goes toNathalie Delzenne, Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, researcher at the Louvain Drug Research Institute at UCLouvain.
- The Clinical Biomedical Sciences Prize (Prix Joseph Maisin) goes toPeter Stärkel, Professor and Head of Clinic at UCLouvain.
- The Social Sciences Prize (Ernest-John Solvay Prize) is awarded toJean-Marie Baland, Professor in the Department of Economics and member of the Development Economics Research Centre at UNamur.
- The Human Sciences Prize (Ernest-John Solvay Prize) is awarded toGodefroid de Callataÿ, Professor and researcher at the Institute of Civilisations, Arts and Letters (INCAL) at UCLouvain.
See the press release.
The prize-giving ceremony will take place on November 24th, 2025, at Bozar, along with the FWO's Excellentieprijzen.
