34 Notable alumni of
University of Antwerp
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The University of Antwerp is 1249th in the world, 433rd in Europe, and 8th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from the University of Antwerp sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Peter Piot
- Enrolled in the University of Antwerp
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in microbiology
- Occupations
- university teacherinternational forum participantphysicianpoliticianvirologist
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Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot, KCMG, FRCP, FFPH, FMedSci is a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS.
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Jan Jambon
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Jambon is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) who has been serving as Minister-President of Flanders since 2019. He replaced Kris Peeters as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2007. The N-VA was, at that time, partnered with the Christian-Democratic and Flemish party. In June 2010 and May 2014 he was re-elected on an N-VA list.
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Bart Peeters
- Occupations
- drummeractorperforming artisttelevision actorradio personality
- Biography
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Bart August Maria Peeters is a Belgian singer, musician, television presenter and actor.
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Filip Dewinter
- Occupations
- actorjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Philip Michel Frans "Filip" Dewinter is a Belgian politician, journalist and commentator. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party.
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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
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- politician
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Mantombazana "Manto" Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang OMSS was a South African politician. She was Deputy Minister of Justice from 1996 to 1999 and served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2008 under President Thabo Mbeki. She also served as Minister in the Presidency under President Kgalema Motlanthe from September 2008 to May 2009.
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Kristof Calvo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kristof Calvo y Castañer is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the Flemish left-wing green party. At the moment he is a federal representative. In the period 2014-2021, Calvo was rotating parliamentary group leader of Ecolo-Groen in the federal Chamber of Representatives. Since January 2013, he has been a councillor in Mechelen and since 2018 he is the leader of the joint list of liberals, greens and independents in the city council.
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Kris Peeters
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Kris Peeters is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish who served as vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2021 to 2024. Earlier in his career, he was Minister-President of Flanders (2007–2014), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Employment in the government of Prime Minister Charles Michel (2014–2019), and a Member of the European Parliament (2019–2021).
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Peter Mertens
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Peter Mertens is a Belgian politician who led the Workers' Party of Belgium from 2008 to 2021. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019, and as a municipal councilor in Antwerp since 2013.
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Johan Vande Lanotte
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the SP.A, and became its party president on 15 October 2005. He handed down his leadership positions after the SP.A lost in the 2007 general election. Between 1995 and 2014, he served more than 13 years as Deputy Prime Minister, the longest period for a Flemish socialist after WW II. In his last term he served as the Minister of Economy, Consumer affairs and North Sea in the Di Rupo I Government. With the formation of a new Centre-Right federal government, which excluded his party, Johan Vande Lanotte returned to local politics in October 2014 in Ostend, where he took up his position as alderman for the economy and tourism at Ostend City Council. From August 2015 until the end of 2018 Vande Lanotte was the mayor of Ostend. During his political career he continued to work as a professor at the University of Ghent, specialized in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Since 2019, he is a lawyer (senior legal advisor) in the law office Van Steenbrugge in Gent. He was the initiator of the Turkey Tribunal held in Geneva in September 2021. Vande Lanotte also published one of the six reports of the Turkey Tribunal entitled "Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute in Turkey Today"
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Dries Buytaert
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- engineercomputer scientistinternational forum participantprogrammer
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Dries Buytaert is a Belgian open-source software programmer. He is the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system. He also serves as the CTO of Acquia.
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Pascal Smet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pascal Smet is a Belgian politician, member of Vooruit.
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Gerolf Annemans
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Gerolf Emma Jozef Annemans is a Belgian lawyer, journalist and politician of the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang (VB) and formerly of its predecessor, the Vlaams Blok. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014, and a city councilor in Antwerp since 2000. He served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 1987 to 2014, and as a city councilor in Brasschaat from 1994 to 2000. He was the former leader of the VB from 2012 to 2014, and led the Vlaams Blok and VB parliamentary groups from 1991 to 2013.
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Johan Van Overtveldt
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- journalisteconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Johan Van Overtveldt is a Belgian journalist and politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). He served as Minister of Finance of Belgium from 2014 until 2018.
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Cathy Berx
- Enrolled in the University of Antwerp
- In 1998 graduated with doctorate in law
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
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Cathy Hilde Raymond Berx is a Belgian Christian Democrat politician, jurist and governor of the province of Antwerp. Cathy Berx is married to Johan Meeusen, vice-rector and professor of European Law at the University of Antwerp, and has 2 children.
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Patrick Janssens
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick Janssens is a Belgian former politician. He was a member of the SP.a and the former mayor of the port city Antwerp.
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Renée Jones-Bos
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- diplomat
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Regina Veronica Maria "Renée" Jones-Bos is a Dutch civil servant and diplomat. She served as Ambassador of the Netherlands to Russia from 2016 to 2019. Previously, Jones-Bos was Ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C. (2007–2012) and Secretary-General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague (2012–2016).
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Kong Quan
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Kong Quan is a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Chinese Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2008 to 2013.
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Philippe Muyters
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- politician
- Biography
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Philippe Muyters is a Belgian politician from the Flemish Region and is a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
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Hugo Coveliers
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- politicianlawyer
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Hugo F.V. Coveliers is a retired Belgian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives between 1985 and 1995, and from 1993 to 2003. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Belgian Senate. He was a parliamentary chairman for the VLD in both chambers, from 1999 to 2003.
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Louis-Philippe Loncke
- Occupations
- engineerlecturerexplorer
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Louis-Philippe Loncke is a Belgian explorer, adventurer and motivational speaker. In 2008, he achieved the world first crossing on foot of the length of the Simpson desert, which was a North to South traverse passing through its geographical center. In 2018, he traversed Tasmania during the austral winter without resupplies and was nicknamed the Mad Belgian by some Australians.
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Mieke Vogels
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- politician
- Biography
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Maria Bertha Charlotte Vogels (born 20 April 1954) Belgian politician from Flanders in the environmentalist party Groen!.
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Jos Geysels
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Josephus "Jos" Elisabeth A. M. Geysels is a former Belgian (Flemish) politician, and former Representative in the Belgian Chamber for the ecologist party Agalev for which he was party chairman. He resigned from the post in 2003, taking responsibility for the party's loss of power in the elections.
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Dave Sinardet
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- political scientistuniversity teachercolumnist
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Dave Sinardet is a Belgian political scientist, author and columnist.
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Luc Steels
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Luc Steels is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies ICREA associated as a research professor with the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF/CSIC) in Barcelona. He was formerly founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and founding director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Steels has also been active in the arts collaborating with visual artists and theater makers and composing music for opera.
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Conny Aerts
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacherinternational forum participantphysicistastronomer
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Conny Clara Aerts, born 26 January 1966, is a Belgian professor in astrophysics. She specialises in asteroseismology. She is associated with KU Leuven and Radboud University, where she leads the Chair in the Astroseismology group. In 2012, she became the first woman to be awarded the Francqui Prize in the category of Science & Technology. In 2022, she became the third woman to be awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her work in asteroseismology.
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Michel Van den Bergh
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- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Michel Van den Bergh is a Belgian mathematician and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and does research at Hasselt University. His research interest is on the fundamental relationship between algebra and geometry. In 2003, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences.
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Stefaan Van Hecke
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Stefaan Van Hecke is a Belgian politician. He is member of the Belgian Federal Parliament (Chamber of Representatives of Belgium) for the ecological party Groen!. He was first elected in June 2007. He was re-elected in 2010, 2014, and 2019.
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Vivian Liska
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- literary scholargermanistman of lettersuniversity teacher
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Vivian Liska, born in New York City, United States is a professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013 she is also distinguished visiting professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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Dirk De Ridder
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- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Biography
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Dirk De Ridder is a Belgian neurosurgeon. He is a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. De Ridder spends half his time in New Zealand and half in Belgium, involved in setting up a dedicated neuromodulation clinic.
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Hugo J. Bellen
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- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- researchergeneticist
- Biography
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Hugo J. Bellen is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an investigator emeritus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who studies genetics and neurobiology in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly.
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Jan Wouters
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- writerlegal scholaracademicuniversity teacherlaw teacher
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Jan Maria Florent Wouters is a Belgian academic. He is Jean Monnet Chair, and Professor of International Law and International Organizations at KU Leuven, where he is also Director of its Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law.
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Ronald Rousseau
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- university teachermathematician
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Ronald Rousseau is a Belgian mathematician and information scientist. He has obtained an international reputation for his research on indicators and citation analysis in the fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics.
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Lou Van Beirendonck
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Lodewijk Constant Van Beirendonck (born 1960) is a Belgian organizational psychologist, management consultant, and Associate Professor of Human resource management at the Antwerp Management School, known for his work on competence management.
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Dirk Wouters
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Enrolled in the University of Antwerp
- In 1975 studied Bachelor of Arts, jurisprudence, and economics
- Occupations
- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Dirk Wouters was Belgium's ambassador to the United States.
