
On 20 June 2025, our former colleague Helen De Cruz, currently Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University, has passed on. Helen was affiliated to our research centre as a PhD student in the years 2003 to 2008. She succesfully defended her doctoral thesis "Innate ideas as a naturalistic source of mathematical knowledge. Towards a Darwinian approach to mathematical cognition" on 19 March 2007. After that, she held several research positions both in Belgium and abroad, studying a phletora of interconnected topics with depth and wit. We offer our sincere condolences to her partner Johan and their two children, as well as to her sister, our VUB colleague Lesley. Obituaries can be found here and here.