Leuven or Louvain is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic city and the sub-municipalities of Heverlee,Kessel-Lo,Wilsele,Wijgmaal and a part of Korbeek-Lo. It is the eighth largest city in Belgium,with more than 100,244 inhabitants.
The Catholic University of Leuven or Louvain was founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of Belgium,and moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835,changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven. In 1968,it was split into two universities,the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Universitécatholique de Louvain,following tensions between the Dutch and French-speaking student bodies.
Vincent Rijmen is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael,the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function,and the block ciphers Anubis,KHAZAD,Square,NOEKEON and SHARK.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Associatie Kortrijk,or Kulak for short,is a university satellite campus of the KU Leuven in the city of Kortrijk (Courtrai) in the Belgian province of West Flanders and is therefore also officially a Dutch-speaking institution.
Willy F. Vande Walle is a Belgian academic,author,Japanologist and Sinologist.
Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist. He studied medicine from 1935 up to 1942 at the Catholic University of Leuven. He did research and later became a professor at the Department of medicine,where he specialised in microbiology and immunology. In 1968,he became the first rector of the Flemish Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and he remained rector until his death in 1985.
Science and technology in Flanders,being the Flemish Community and more specifically the northern region of Belgium (Europe),is well developed with the presence of several universities and research institutes. These are strongly spread over all Flemish cities,from Kortrijk and Bruges in the Western side,over Ghent as a major university center alongside Antwerp,Brussels and Leuven to Hasselt and Diepenbeek in the Eastern side.
Marc Van Ranst is a Belgian public health doctor and Professor of Virology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. On 1 May 2007,he was appointed as Interministerial comissionar by the Belgian federal government to prepare Belgium for an influenza pandemic.
Koen Lenaerts,Baron Lenaerts is a Belgian jurist and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a member of the Coudenberg group,a Belgian federalist think tank.
Raymond Francis Collins is an American Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Providence,and an exegete of the New Testament. Recently retired,he has taught as a professor at a variety of institutions of higher education,including most prominently Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Catholic University of America. He also served the American College of the Immaculate Conception as its ninth rector.
Mark Jozef Albert,Baron Waer is a Belgian physician,biomedical scientist,and former Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Wouter Beke is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of Representatives and was reelected in 2019. In July 2019 he succeeded Kris Peeters as Federal Minister for Work,Economy and Consumer affairs. He left the Belgian Federal Government in October 2019 to become Minister for Welfare,Public health,Family and Poverty reduction in the Flemish Regional Jambon Government.
The Leuven Faculty of Theology was a branch of the Catholic University of Leuven,founded in 1834 in Mechelen by the bishops of Belgium as the Catholic University of Belgium,that moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835,changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven.
Henri Maria Dymphna AndréLaurent "Rik" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium.
Reinhilde Veugelers is a Belgian economist and Professor of Managerial Economics,Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium,known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.
Didier Pollefeyt is a Belgian catholic theologian,full professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and vice rector for education policy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Jan Roegiers (1944–2013) was a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,and also university archivist,librarian and curator. He specialised in early modern academic history,and in particular the history of the pre-1797 University of Leuven. During his lifetime he was "generally regarded as one of the most authoritative voices in the world of academic history,archive and library science and the heritage sector in Belgium." He is also credited with giving the newly established Flemish university a sense of historical continuity with Leuven's past.
Marc Depaepe is a professor of pedagogy science at the KU Leuven and was from 2013 until 2017 vice- and campus rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
