Return grants for researchers working abroad

- The Back to Belgium return grants are definitively stopped. No more call will be organised.-

In a nutshell...

The Back to Belgium Grants of the federal Science Policy are intended to foster the return to Belgium of talented researchers doing R&D in a foreign research centre. Each year, the jury meets in May and proposes to the Minister in charge a list of candidates considered apt to receive a 24 months funding. The selection criteria are mainly based on the scientific level of the candidate, the quality and the feasibility of the research proposal, the post-doc expertise acquired abroad and its possible use and its contribution to the host unit as well as the career perspectives in Belgium. In order to palliate any defection, a reserve list is also foreseen. The jury is constituted of Belgian and foreign experts. Its composition takes into account the diversity of the proposals.

To this day, the Back to Belgium Grants have benefited to more than 100 researchers: see table.

Beneficiaries

DANDOY Régis	Understanding regional elections: Beyond the second-order theory (UCL, Prof. C. De Visscher)
DELELE Mulugeta	Multiscale CFD modeling of novel postharvest treatments (KULeuven, Prof. B. Nicolaï)
HENS Kristien	Neurological diversity and epigenetic influences in utero. An ethical investigation of maternal responsibility towards the future child (UA, Prof. W. Lemmens)
NICOLIS Stamatios	Dynamics of Self-organization and collective decisions in living systems (ULB, Prof. J.-L. Deneubourg)
SLUSE Dominique	Mapping the luminous and dark matter content of galaxies with gravitational lensing telescopes (ULg, Prof. J. Surdej)
VAN HAESENDONCK Kristian	Comparative perspectives on Caribbean, Lusophone African and European (con)texts (UA, Prof. K. Gyssels)

CHARLIER Bernard	Early differentiation of terrestrial planets (ULg, Prof. J. Vander Auwera) Final Report
CLESSE Sébastien	Backreactions from cosmological inhomogeneities during inflation and structure formation (UNamur, Prof. André Füzfa) Final Report
DE BUYL Sophie	Cyanobacteria Circadian Rhythms ULB, Prof. Geneviève Dupont) Final Report
MAUROY Alexandre	An operator-theoretic framework for studying the collective behaviors of interacting agents. Application to the analysis of rhythms in neural networks (ULg, Prof. R. Sepulchre) Final Report
MORADI Sara	Multi-scale turbulent transport in fusion plasmas, theoretical developments and data analysis (ULB, Prof. Bernard Knaepen) Final Report
GARCIA-PATRON Raúl	Quantum information processing with photons (ULB, Prof. Nicolas Cerf) Final Report
VANDELOOK Filip	Germination ecology, an important factor in the response of plant species to climate change (Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Dr. Steven Dessein) Final Report

BORUC Joanna	Unravelling the function of Arabidopsis alpha group Aurora kinases in orienting formative cell divisions (Ugent-VIB - Prof. D. INZE) Final Report
COX Tom	New eyes on the world: signal processing for interpreting biogeochemical time series (UA, Prof. P. MEIRE) Final Report
CROITORU Mihail	Novel confinement-induced phenomena in superconducting nanograins (UA, Prof. F.M. PEETERS) Final Report
DE MUYLDER Geraldine	Cross-talk between Leishmania and its mammalian host-cell: insights from chemical genetics and antimony-resistant field isolates (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Prof. J.-C. DUJARDIN) Final Report
DECLEVES Anne-Emilie	Endothelial and Vascular Dysfunctions in experimental Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy: role of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (ULB, Prof. J. NORTIER) Final Report
FIVET Vanessa	Investigation of atomic processes in lowly-ionized iron-peak and neutron-capture elements. Applications to the modeling of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas (UMONS, Prof. E. BIÉMONT) Final Report
JACQUES Corentin	Investigating the temporal dynamics of face processing in the human brain by combining simultaneous measures of scalp and intracranial electrophysiology with functional neuroimaging (UCL, Prof. B. ROSSION) Final Report
PETERS Frédéric	The contribution of executive control processes to lexico-semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease and Semantic Dementia (Ulg, Prof. S. MAJERUS) Final Report
SCHOEMANN Véronique	Marine trace metal biogeochemistry and its control on the biogeochemical carbon pump (ULB, Prof. J.-L. TISON) Final Report

BERGER Emmanuel	The Criminal Jury in France and England in the 18th and 19th Centuries. A comparative Study of Popular Justice (UCL - Prof. Xavier Rousseaux) Final Report
DE BRABANDERE Loreto	Nitrate Transformation Processes in the Schelde under Reduced Sewage Inputs (NITRAPS) (VUB - Prof. Willy Baeyens) Final Report
DEROUAUX Adeline	Interactions and dynamic of the main E. coli divisome proteins in membranes (ULg - Prof. Bernard Joris) Final Report
GOFFAUX Valérie	Orientation tuning of face identity coding in the brain, a pattern-analysis fMRI approach (KUL - Prof. Hans op de Beek) Final Report
GUILLIAMS Martin	Study of the functional role of the distinct lung and liver antigen presenting cell subsets in vivo (UGent - Prof. Bart Lambrecht) Final Report
JANKY Rekin's	Discovery and prioritization of gene regulatory modules driving oncogenesis (KUL - Prof. Stein Aerts) Final Report
LAMBERT Olivier	Fossil sperm whales and their prey: evolution of physeteroid feeding strategies (KBIN-IRSNB - Prof. Etienne Steurbaut) Final Report
NELISSEN Koen	The role of visual and motor systems in action understanding (KUL - Prof. Wim Vanduffel) Final Report
VERHAEGHE Jeroen	Novel motion correction techniques for PET imaging of awake animals (UA - Prof. Steven Staelens) Final Report

COPPIETERS Ken	NKT cell-mediated modulation of Th1/Th17 balances and its consequences on osteoclastogenesis in autoimmune arthritis (UZ Gent - Prof. Dirk Elewaut) Final Report
DE VOS Dirk	Multiscale mathematical modeling of root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana (UA - Prof. Dr. Kris Vissenberg) Final Report
FANIEL Sébastien	Electronic and spin properties of one-dimensional semiconductor systems (UCL - Dr. Sorin Melinte) Final Report
JOCQUE Merlijn	Metacommunity dynamics of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in South and Central American bromeliads (Bromeliacea) (KBIN-IRSNB - Prof. Boudewijn Goddeeris & Koen Martens) Final Report
KNIPPENBERG Stefan	Conjugated molecules as optical probes for biomembranes and DNA: Theoretical insights (UMONS - Prof. Roberto Lazzaroni) Final Report
MERLA Laura	Transnational care-giving in the Belgian context: an analysis of the interplay between intrafamilial dynamics and the exchange of care between adult migrants and their parents (UCL - Prof. Isabel Yépez del Castillo) Final Report
ROLAND Jérémie	Computational aspects of quantum information processing : study of adiabatic quantum computation, quantum algorithms based on quantum walks, and distributed computation with quantum resources (ULB - Prof. Nicolas Cerf) Final Report
VAN DOORSSELAERE Tom	Forward modeling : revolutionising coronal seismology (K.U.Leuven - Prof. Rony Keppens) Final Report