Titulars

2025-2028

Simon BAECKENS (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) – UCL – Biological and Medical Sciences – Functional and evolutionary ecology, Integrative and organismal biology, Evolution in the Anthropocene.

Jeroen DE KOONING (Start-Up Grant Francqui) – UGent – Human Sciences  – Digital twins for sustainable mechatronic systems in renewable energy and manufacturing applications.

Charlotte BEAUDART (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) – UNamur – Biological and Medical Sciences – Santé publique, étude du vieillissement –  “Contribution to the study of sarcopenia: definition, diagnosis and outcomes”.

Andres ALGABA (Start-Up Grant Francqui) – VUB – Exact Sciences – Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), automated science, and the science of science. His research addresses timely and critical questions regarding the evolving role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scientific discovery and innovation.

2024-2027

Jeroen DE SMET (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) KUL – Exact Sciences – Mapping, manipulating and mining microbial diversity and dynamics in the gut of industrially produced insects.

Nathalie ESSER (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) – ULiège – Biological and Medical Sciences – Physiopathologie du diabète de type 2.

Bie PLEVOETS (Start-Up Grant Francqui) – UHasselt – Human Sciences – Reusing the Ruin.

Stijn VERLEDEN (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) – UAntwerpen – Biological and Medical Sciences – Risicofactoren en fenotypen van chronische afstoting na longtransplantatie – Driedimensionele beeldvorming van menselijke longen op microscopie schaal

Amandine VAN RINSVELD (Start-Up Grant Collen-Francqui) – ULB – Biological and Medical Sciences – Neural architecture and dynamics of human cognition with a focus on numerical cognition and mathematical learning – ERC Starting Grant 2023-2028

2023-2026

Marc HENNEQUART (Collen-Francqui)  – UNamur – Biomedical Sciences, biochemistry, cancer metabolism, immunometabolism, lung cancer, inflammation, volatile metabolites, metabolomics, biomarkers.

Laura SYMUL (Collen-Francqui) – UCLouvain – Biological rhythms-Biostatistics-Computational biology-Clinical data science-Digital medicine-Menstrual health-Multi-omics longitudinal analysis-Hidden (semi)Markov models-Temporal measures.

Maitane BERECIBAR – VUB – The goal is to develop an universal, data driven, digital platform that discribes and improves the battery manufacturing processes for advanced lithium batteries, consisting out of novel materials and solid state; reducing time-to-market & production cost.  

Yi OUYANG – UGent – Chemical process intensification, CO2 capture technology development and computational fluid dynamics.Onderzoek naar procesintensivering-Computational fluid dynamic-Carbon capture and storage-Vortex technology-Novel reactor development-Multiphase flow-Reactive flow.

2022-2025

Atilgan YILMAZ (Collen-Francqui) – KULeuven – Genome-wide screens using human embryonic stem cells to study development and diseases of skeletal muscle.

Rose BRUFFAERTS MD (Collen-Francqui) – UA – Ontwikkeling van neurofysiologische merkers voor betrouwbare vroegdiagnostiek van neurodegeneratieve ziektes van Alzheimer en Frontotemporale degeneratie.

Jean-François BASTIN  – ULg – Sciences de la terre, télédétection, écologie, changement climatique, stock de carbone, restauration.

Guillaume SCHWEICHER – ULB – Développer, étudier de nouveaux semi-conducteurs organiques et hybrides pour une électronique plus verte et durable.

2021-2024

Gwenhaël de WASSEIGE – UCLouvain – Astroparticles and cosmology

Emilie CASPAR – UGent – Psychology

Kiavash MOVAHEDI (Collen-Francqui) – VUB/VIB – Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy

Werend BOESMANS (Collen-Francqui) – UHasselt – Medicine and Life Sciences

2020-2023

Henri-François RENARD (call 2019) (Collen-Francqui)– UNamur – Unité de recherche en biologie cellulaire animale

Damya LAOUI (call 2019) (Collen-Francqui) – VUB – Cancer Immunotherapy

Sébastien CLESSE – ULB – Cosmologie : dark side of the universe and gravitational waves

Shoubhik DAS (Collen-Francqui) – UAntwerpen – ORSY division, Dept. of Chemistry

Kobe DESENDER – KULeuven – Brain & Cognition – Psychology & Brain research

Sophie LAGUESSE (Collen-Francqui) – ULg – ULiège-Giga -Neurosciences

2019-2022

Baptiste BARBOT – UCLouvain – cognitive development from early adolescence to emerging adulthood
coming grom : Pace University (NY) & Child Study Center, Yale University

Charlotte SCOTT (Collen-Francqui) – UGent – Biomedical molecular biology-leververvetting-Dendritic cells & Macrophage
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Gent