Academic Ernesto San Martín obtains the “chaire international francqui professor” award

The distinction consists of a scholarship to carry out “Classes of Excellence” at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he will also work together with international research groups around collaborative work between the exact sciences and the social sciences.

In this context, starting in March 2024, San Martín will travel to the Catholic University of Leuven, where he will dictate what the institution calls “Classes of Excellence”, aimed at researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students, to expose the lines of research that the academic has developed in terms of statistics and social sciences.

“Receiving recognition in this category is truly a gift, because it values, internationally, the use of statistics to understand problems in the social sciences, which is ultimately what I have done throughout my career, through interdisciplinary work that has involved science. perspective of psychologists, historians and politicians, among other specialists”, said the academic.

The International Chairs are in Human and Exact Sciences, Human Sciences, and Biological and Medical Sciences; and to obtain them, the academics must be nominated by at least two universities, with the prior approval of their Research Councils. In the case of Professor San Martín, he was nominated by the Catholic University of Leuven, the KU Leuven, the University of Ghent and the University of Liège.

It is worth remembering that the mathematician René Thom (in 1976) and the statistician Janus Kozlowski (in 2001) were holders of this chair, as well as philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur (in 1970), Michel Foucault (1981), Alain de Libera (1994) , the French sociologist Edgar Morin (in 1984) and the dogmatic theologian Edward Schillebbeckx (in 1974).