Category: Research

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  Feelings of loneliness affect more girls than boys finds study

  Specific data on Luxembourg paints a picture of our adolescents’ mental health and how it matches up against the larger Europe and Central Asia trend.

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  University will integrate the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg

  The Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, based in Luxembourg-Kirchberg, will be transferred to the University of Luxembourg on 1 January 2024.

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  Towards computational design of molecules with desired properties

  Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko and his research team at the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory have introduced a novel “freedom of design” principle in the chemical compound space (CCS) – the unfathomably vast space populated by all possible atomic compositions and their geometries. The team then showed that…

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  “Smartwielen” helps voters chose according to their own orientations

  The online tool Smartwielen, coordinated by Dr. Raphaël Kies of the University of Luxembourg (coordinator of the Plateforme Luxembourgeoise de la Démocratie Participative) and Dr. Marc Schoentgen of the Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZpB), is available to voters of the October legislative elections.

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  Housing Day 2023: tackling an essential issue in Luxembourg

  Research, policy and practice will take the stage on 3 October, during a full day conference on housing on Belval campus.  

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  Rolf Tarrach Prize 2023 for physicist Dr Emanuele Penocchio

  The Association “Amis de l’Université” conferred to Dr Emanuele Penocchio the best doctoral thesis award 2023 of the University of Luxembourg for his tremendous work on “Thermodynamics of chemical engines: A chemical reaction network approach”. More than 70 participants from academia and industry attended the ceremony on 12 July 2023 at the Chamber of Commerce…

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  A man of action in the service of science

  The well-known Luxembourg entrepreneur Norbert Friob is one of the earliest donors supporting the University of Luxembourg.

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  A breath of fresh air for the country

  Professor Kreisel, new Rector of the University of Luxembourg, shares vision for academic excellence amidst global crises and promotes interdisciplinarity

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  AI4Space: SnT Launches In-Space Machine Learning Experiment

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  Ground-breaking discovery for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases

  An international team consisting of researchers from Japan and Luxembourg showed for the first time that pathological forms of the alpha-synuclein protein present in the blood of patients can be used for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and its differentiation from several other neurodegenerative motor disorders.

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