List of Université libre de Bruxelles people

This list of notable people associated with Université libre de Bruxelles includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with the ULB and use the following notation:

• B indicates a bachelor's degree
• Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated
• AM indicates a Master of Arts degree
• MSE indicates a Master of Science in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science
• PhD indicates a Ph.D. degree
• GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree
• F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty
• Rec indicates a , followed by years denoting the time of service

Politics and government []

• Vũ Đức Đam (born 1963), politician, current Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam.
• Aleth Félix-Tchicaya (born 1955), Congolese writer
• Fradique de Menezes (born 1942), President of São Tomé and Príncipe since 2001
• Charles Michel (born 1975), current Prime Minister of Belgium

Science and technology[]

• Delphine Lannuzel, PhD, 2006, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher ^[1]
• André Sterling (born 1924), civil engineer and professor emeritus
• Stephane de Baets (born 1969), founder of international asset management firm Elevated Returns and pioneer in blockchain-based real estate investing.^[2]
• Marguerite Massart (1900-1979) first Belgian female engineer^[3]
• Anne Goldberg, Belgian physicist, Research & Innovation Expert at Solvay

Nobel laureates[]

Year	Image	Laureate	Relation	Category	Rationale
1913		Henri La Fontaine	PhD (1876)	Peace	"for being the true leader of the popular peace movement in Europe."[4]
1919		Jules Bordet	PhD (1892), Professor 1907-1961	Medicine	"for his discoveries relating to immunity".[5]
1974		Albert Claude Co-recipient with Christian de Duve and George Palade	Professor 1949-1971	Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell".[6]
1977		Ilya Prigogine	Professor 1950-2003	Chemistry	"for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures"[7]
2013		François Englert Co-recipient with Peter Higgs	PhD (1958) and professor 1964-2016	Physics	"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle"[8]
2018		Denis Mukwege	PhD (2015)	Peace	"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"[9]

Faculty[]

• Eugene Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925), historian and politician
• Jules Bordet (1870–1961), physician, laureate of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Albert Claude (24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983), biologist, laureate of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Paul Hymans (1865–1941), law, first President of the League of Nations
• Ilya Prigogine, (1917–2003), physicist and chemist, laureate of the 1955 Francqui Prize, and laureate of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Théophile de Donder, (1872–1957), physicist and mathematician, and father of irreversible thermodynamics
• Jacques Tits (1930–2021), Belgian mathematician, laureate of the 1993 Wolf Prize and of the 2008 Abel Prize
• Emile Vandervelde (1866–1938), statesman, professor of law and sociology
• Éliane Vogel-Polsky (1926 – 2015) was a Belgian lawyer and feminist

See also[]

• Université libre de Bruxelles

References[]

External links[]

• Official website of Université libre de Bruxelles