Member News Archive#
Professor Regina Kiener receives two Honorary Doctorates
Regina Kiener MAE, elected as member of the Law section of Academia Europaea in 2021, received two Honorary Doctorates, one from the University of Fribourg and one from the University of Basel, both in Switzerland.
Fraud alert: Phishing email impersonating the Academy President, Professor Donald Dingwell.
President of Academia Europaea, Donald Bruce Dingwell, thanks the Cardiff Knowledge Hub as it closes after 10 years of outstanding service to the Academy.
2025 ALLEA Madame De Staël Prize awarded To President Of The European Research Council (ERC) Maria Leptin.
Season's greetings to all members and visitors of the Academy website.
Read the messages from President Donald Bruce Dingwell and the Hub Directors highlighting this year's activities.
A new publication by Arlene Holmes-Henderson MAE and Edith Hall MAE where they document the history of Classical Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications in the UK; past, present and future.
Read the end-of-year message from the president of Academia Europaea, Professor Donald Dingwell.
Vladimir Parpura, MAE, receives the 2025 Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award.
15 PhD students from Odesa National Medical University completed the course “Introduction to Statistical Analysis Using R” - an initiative supported by Professor Ole Petersen from the Cardiff Knowledge Hub and Prof. Dr. Torsten Hothorn from the University of Zurich.
Read an interview with Professor Dennis Lo where he reflects on the discovery of cell-free fetal DNA.
Read an interview with Professor Licia Verde MAE in which she discusses dark matter, dark energy, and why discovery is as much about the journey as the destination.
Philippe Aghion awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025.
Advance notice of the date and time of the 37th Annual General (Business) Meeting of members.
Time: 15 October 2025.
Venue: Barcelona Biomedial Park.
Professor Steve Liddle, member of the Chemical Sciences Section was awarded the Terrae Rarae Award from the Tage der Seltenen Erden.
Academia Europaea is honoured to announce the award of the 2025 Erasmus Medal to the distinguished Mathematician, Professor László Lovász MAE, mathematician, past Academic Director of our Budapest Knowledge Hub and former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The Academia Europaea are pleased to award A SYDNEY BRENNER Medal for achievements in the Life Sciences, to Professor Markus Ralser MAE, Director of the Institute and Group Leader in Biochemistry and Systems Biology of Metabolism at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
The 2025 Advanced Adam Kondorosi Prize for Plant Sciences will be awarded to Professor Jens Stougaard MAE from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University.
"From Knowledge to Action” project 2025–2027: Call for Participation.
Members of Academia Europaea are called upon to participate in any of the 27 projects which resulted from the call for research initiative.
Deadline: 10 October 2025.
Five MAEs were elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE).
Academia Europaea is saddened to announce the death of Sir John Gurdon.
Academia Europaea mourns the loss of Professor Jan Willem Klop (1945-2025).
Read an interview with Professor Caroline Bassett MAE where she reflects on the promises and perils of digital technologies.
Members of Academia Europaea are now invited by the Trustees to vote on a number of motions that will be put to the Annual Business Meeting at the annual conference in Barcelona.
End of ballot: 26 September 2025.
Péter Hegyi receives the Robert F. Pitts Lecture Award, one of the world’s most prestigious physiology awards.
2025 Kyoto Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine awarded to the developmental biologist Azim Surani MAE.
Professor Beatrice van der Heijden receives the Academy of Management Hughes Lifetime Careers Scholar Award 2025.
Professor Erol Gelenbe, Chair of the Informatics section, was elected Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
Read the latest publication by Grzegorz W. Kołodko MAE where he offers a broad analysis of how Donald Trump’s return to the White House could reshape the world order.
Read an interview with Lise Øvreås, incoming President of EASAC, where she highlights the vast diversity of microbes, their unseen influence on global systems, and the potential of microbial science in tackling environmental challenges.
Invitation to nominate experts to participate in an online workshop on the topic of ''The role and use of artificial intelligence for crisis management'', on the 6th of October 2025 from 10:00 to 13:00 CET.
Deadline: 15th August 2025.


























