Honoring PhD Degree Holders (March 2024)

Véronique De Keyser holds a doctorate in psychology from ULB and is a Professor Emeritus at ULiège specialising in human error in working environments (industry, health) and stress at work.  Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science (1990-1998), she chaired the European Work and Organizational Psychology Association.  A woman of commitment, she was a Member of the European Parliament from 2001 to 2014, where she was particularly active in defending human rights and women's rights in the Arab and Middle Eastern world.  Together with Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner and surgeon at Panzi Hospital, she initiated the process that led to the creation of the International Chair on "Violence against women and girls in conflicts", with the aim of setting up cooperation programs. She is currently President of the Centre d'Action Laïque.   

Jean-Marie Kayembe is a medical doctor from the University of Liège, professor of pneumology and former Vice-Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kinshasa (DRC Congo), and is currently Rector of UNIKIN.  From its Central Africa Platform in Kinshasa, ULiège works with Prof. Jean-Marie Kayembe on general health issues in Africa, and more specifically on the "One Health" concept, which is one of the priorities of the University's strategic plan. 

Jean Surdej holds a doctorate in astrophysics and is an honorary professor at ULiège and a visiting professor at Poznan University in Poland. Honorary research director of the FNRS, his main research activities focus on radiative transfer in expanding atmospheres, the inversion of the light curve of asteroids, the gravitational lensing effect and the International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project.  Developed by Jean Surdej with his Indian and Canadian partners, the CSL and the Liège-based company AMOS, the telescope was inaugurated in March 2023 at the Devasthal Observatory in the central Himalayas in India. More than fifteen researchers from India and other countries have already benefited from this project to complete their theses.