Anne De Wit
Anne De Wit is a Belgian physical chemist whose research focuses on pattern formation and spatio-temporal dynamics in nonlinear interactions between chemical reactions and hydrodynamics, including processes in which chemical reactions drive convective fluid flows, and the analysis of chemical gardens. She is a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, director of the university's Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit, and co-director of its "Service de Chimie Physique and Biologie Théorique" in the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.
Education
De Wit studied chemistry at the Université libre de Bruxelles, receiving a licenciate in 1989 and a doctorate in 1993. After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University, she returned to the Université libre de Bruxelles and completed a habilitation in 2004.
Recognition
De Wit was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015, after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for pioneering contributions to our understanding of the coupling between chemical reaction, hydrodynamics, and pattern formation driven by coupled reacting-hydrodynamic systems". She was elected to the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 2022.