Honored personalities
Doctor Honoris Causa
The doctorate "Honoris Causa" is a distinction that the University awards to a personality who has made a mark in a particular field.
List of personalities who have received the insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa in recent years on the proposal of the Faculty:
March 2023
Anton ALUJA, University of Lleida, Spain
March 2020
Dorothy Vera Margaret BISHOP, University of Oxford, Great Britain
March 2019
Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada
March 2018
Marie DURUR-BELLAT, University of Burgundy, France
March 2017
Mireille CYR, University of Montreal, Canada
March 2016
Johan E. F. Sundberg, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
March 2015
Nelson COWAN, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
May 2014
Eckhard KLIEME, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
March 2013
Linda ALLAL, University of Geneva, Switzerland
March 2012
Francis EUSTACHE, University of Caen/Basse-Normandie, France
October 2010
Karalyn PATTERSON, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
March 2009
Neville Postlethwaite, University of Hamburg
March 2008
Martin CONWAY, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Marc LEBLANC, Canada
March 2004
Robert SIEGLER, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jere Edward BROPHY, Michigan State University, USA
March 2001
Nathaniel Lees GAGE, Stanford University, USA
Andrew MAYES, Sheffield University, United Kingdom
March 2000
Andrew William YOUNG, University of York, England
Michel FAYOL, Université Blaise Pascal, France
March 1999
Serban IONESCU, Université René Descartes - Paris V, France
Robert Edward SLAVIN, Johns Hopkins University & Howard University, USA
March 1996
John Albertus MICHON, University of Leiden, Netherlands
March 1992
Benjamin S. BLOOM, University of Chicago
Paul WATZMAWICK, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California
Francqui Chair
The Francqui Foundation awards a number of "Francqui Chairs" each year. These are intended to invite a Professor from another Belgian University to give ten hours of lectures. These are not considered as part of the teaching but rather as a complement.
2018-2019
Olivier KLEIN, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2013-2015
Axel CLEEREMANS, Université Libre de Bruxelles
