Anne-Sophie NYSSEN elected Rector of the University of Liege

At the end of the second round of the rectoral election, held on 10 and 11 May, Ms Anne-Sophie NYSSEN was elected rector of the University of Liège with 52.02% of the votes. She will take office on 1^st October 2022. She will be the first rector of the University of Liège and the 63^rd academic personality to hold the position of rector since 1817.

Results of the second round

M. Jean WINAND: 39,684 %

Ms. Anne-Sophie NYSSEN: 52,024 %

To nobody: 8,292 %

Turnout in the second round

Teaching staff: 83,31 %

Scientific staff: 55,42 %

Administrative and technical staff: 76,10 %

Student: 17,76 %

Results by electoral body

Teaching staff (weighting of votes: 65%)

M. Jean WINAND : 43,10 %

Ms. Anne-Sophie NYSSEN : 48,77 %

To nobody: 8,13 %

Scientific staff (weighting of votes: 10%)

M. Jean WINAND : 36,71 %

Ms. Anne-Sophie NYSSEN : 54,45 %

To nobody: 8,84 %

Administrative and technical staff (weighting of votes: 10%)

M. Jean WINAND : 26,43 %

Ms. Anne-Sophie NYSSEN : 62,13 %

To nobody: 11,44 %

Student (weighting of votes: 15%)

M. Jean WINAND : 35,70 %

Ms. Anne-Sophie NYSSEN : 57,76 %

To nobody: 6,54 %

Detailed results

RESULTS OF THE first ROUND (26 AND 27 APRIL 2022) 

Results of the 2nd round (10 and 11 May 2022)

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Anne-Sophie Nyssen (57) is Full Professor of Work Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, Speech Language and Educational Sciences of the University of Liège (ULiège) and, since 2018, Vice-Rector for Education and Welfare. She was previously Vice-Dean of her Faculty.

Since her PhD at ULiège and her post-doctoral stay at Stanford University, her research fields focus on the role of human and organisational factors in workplaces (industry, aviation, hospitals,...): human error, accidentology, suffering at work, cognitive ergonomics, decision making and expertise development, design, evaluation of new technologies, analysis of complex systems and system reliability. She organised the inter-university Master of specialisation in risk management and well-being at work. At the international level, she has confronted the French, Anglo-Saxon and American cognitive approaches with Professor Jim Reason of the University of Manchester, the Dane Jens Rasmussen in Roskilde, with the medical team of San Diego in California and with Professor Dave Woods of the University of Columbus. 

Anne-Sophie Nyssen also holds a certificate in Ericksonian hypnosis from the Erickson Institute in Liège. She initiated a course on hypnotic process awareness and therapeutic communication in the university curriculum. She has worked with Professor Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville of the CHU of Liège on a course on the use of hypnosis in the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a member of the group of experts set up by the Conseil Supérieur de la Santé to draw up an opinion aimed at defining the scientific indications for the use of hypnosis.

As Vice-Rector, Anne-Sophie Nyssen developed the #RESPECT campaign which aims to fight against the different forms of discrimination experienced within the University: fight against harassment, for non-violent communication and respect of differences. She is involved in the fight against sexual violence against women and girls in the framework of the Mukwege Chair at ULiège. During the Covid period, she was behind the distribution of bio-solidarity baskets to students. In the context of the pandemic, which has brutally shaken up teaching methods for both teachers and students, she has launched a process of reflection on a modern vision of the place of digital technology in university education and advocates, in this sense, for a reasoned sobriety of digital tools. At the same time, she actively participated in the inter-university reforms of the “Décret Paysage” and the initial training of teachers. 

Anne-Sophie Nyssen was elected Rector of the University of Liège on 12 May 2022, a position she will officially hold from 1 October 2022, succeeding Professor Pierre Wolper. She will then be the 63rd academic personality to hold this position since the creation of the University of Liège in 1817, the first woman rector in the history of the ULiège and the first woman rector of a Public university in Francophone Belgium.

Bio-bibliography of Anne-Sophie Nyssen