Faculty
VUB researchers and affiliated experts teaching at the Postgraduate School of Thinking in the Upsilon Year (2023/24).
Prof. Francis Heylighen
Prof. Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Dr. Sayfan Borghini
Prof. Gerard de Zeeuw
Dr. Karin Verelst
Dr. Weaver D.R. Weinbaum
Dr. Cadell Last
Iwona Sołtysińska, M.A.
Mag. Stefan Blachfellner
Lotte van Lith, M.A.
Prof. Edward Nęcka
Balthazar Roy Tirosh, M.D.
Dr. Clément Vidal
Dr. Maciej Świeży
Dr. Marta Lenartowicz
Dr. Meredith Root-Bernstein
Paul Wouters, M.A.
Katarina Petrović
Orion Maxted, M.A.
Center Leo Apostel (CLEA)
The School of Thinking programme is organised by CLEA: a transdisciplinary research centre at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), which focuses on bringing together the different scientific, social and cultural disciplines. CLEA was founded in 1995, under the impetus of the Belgian philosopher Leo Apostel. Apostel saw the purpose of CLEA in integrating the results of the different disciplines so as to counteract the apparent fragmentation of ever more specialised approaches, and in attracting a variety of talented researchers from the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering to work together in an a-disciplinary academic environment. CLEA is internationally recognised as a unique, transdisciplinary research centre with a steady output of high-quality innovative publications. The main focus of CLEA research programme is transitions between ‘different layers of reality’ (e.g., quantum, physical, chemical, biological to cognitive and social), general metasystem transitions, creative processes, processes of self-organization and emergence.
Management
The programme is managed by the team:
- Programme Director: Dr. Maciej Świeży;
- Workflow Chairman of The Fellows: Gys Godderis, M.A;
- Educational Council (Onderwijsraad): Prof. Francis Heylighen (Chair), Dr. Marta Lenartowicz, Dr. Weaver D.R. Weinbaum, Prof. Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Prof. Yoni Van Den Eede, Lotte Van Lith, Iwona Sołtysińska, Jailee Rychen, Jessie Eggers, Sacha Moens, Herwig Nulens, Joris De Kelver, Veerle Meurs, Nathalie Degraide, Gys Godderis, and Dr. Maciej Świeży.
