Academia Europaea

The aim of the Academia Europaea is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research. Members are nominated on the basis of sustained academic excellence and demonstrated international distinction.

The Academia Europaea was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences. The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe.

Membership is by invitation only and there are more than 5500 members including 88 Nobel laureates, several of whom were elected to the Academia before they received the prize. Members of Academia Europaea are leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law. Invitations are made only after peer group nomination, scrutiny and confirmation as to the scholarship and eminence of the individual in their chosen field. Election is confirmed by the Board of the Academia. 

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Current members of Academia Europaea at the LUMC

  • Jannie Borst, (Cell and Developmental biology)
  • Christine Mummery, (Cell and Developmental biology) 
  • Sjaak Neefjes, (Cell and Developmental biology)
  • Pancras Hogendoorn, (Clinical and veterinary science, 2019)
  • Henk Jan Guchelaar, (Clinical and veterinary science, 2020)
  • Ton Rabelink, (Cell and Developmental biology, 2020)
  • Maria Yazdanbakhsh (Clinical and veterinary science, 2020)
  • Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes (Cell and Developmental biology, 2021)
  • Peter ten Dijke (Cell and Developmental biology, 2021)
  • René Toes (Clinical and veterinary science, 2021)
  • Ewout Steyerberg (Clinical and veterinary science, 2022)