Professor Erol Gelenbe awarded the Honour of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium#
Professor Erol Gelenbe, incoming Chair of the Informatics section of Academia Europaea effective 1st January 2022, was awarded by H.M. the King of Belgium the Honour of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, on 22nd October 2022.
This is Prof. Gelenbe's third Commander level honour in Europe, following the award of "Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica (Italy)" in 2005, and "Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite (France)" in 2019.
Of Turkish origin, born in Istanbul, he has thus been honoured in three distinct European countries, on top of his award of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (France) in 2015. Erol's research covers the modelling and analysis of computing systems and networks, including neuronal networks and machine learning. In addition to Academia Europaea, he is also an elected Fellow of the Science Academies of Belgium, Hungary, Poland and Turkey and the French National Academy of Technologies. In 2022 he was also elected Honorary Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences, which is based in Amman, Jordan.
