Category: Research

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  ERC Grant for Prof. Tkatchenko to speed up drug development with AI

  The physicist Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko of the University of Luxembourg, has received a “Proof of Concept” Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “MACHINE-DRUG”. The project aims to discover ideal drug formulations with unique machine learning algorithms, so that the drugs are both stable and therapeutically effective. The project could accelerate the…

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  How vulnerable are Luxembourg’s firms to climate change?

  Luxembourg Strategy, the foresight directorate of Luxembourg’s ministry of the Economy and the University of Luxembourg have launched the RISK2050 study to investigate the biophysical vulnerabilities of Luxembourg’s economy to risks from climate change, resource depletion and biodiversity losses.

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  New Arendt and Elvinger Hoss Prussen Chair in Investment Funds Law

  The University offers the first Master in Investment Funds Law in Europe

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  Prof. Marie-Hélène Jobin appointed Vice-Rector

  After having received the advice of the University Council, the Board of Governors has today appointed Prof. Marie-Hélène Jobin as Vice-Rector of the University of Luxembourg. She has also been appointed Full Professor in logistics and operations management.

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  Launch of the National Centre of Excellence in Financial Technologies

  The University of Luxembourg inaugurated the National Centre of Excellence in Financial Technologies (NCER-FT) on 29 March 2023.

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  COVID-19 Task Force awarded the 2022 Science for Society Prize

  The 2022 Science for Society Prize, an initiative of the Science for Society Foundation, under the aegis of Fondation de Luxembourg, has been awarded to the Research Luxembourg COVID-19 Task Force, represented by Prof. Paul Wilmes from the University of Luxembourg. The COVID-19 Task Force, a collective effort between several Luxembourg research institutions regrouped under…

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  New Dean at the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

  Robert Harmsen, professor of political science at the University, has been nominated for a five year period as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. He succeeds Prof. Georg Mein, who headed the Faculty for over ten years.

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  Focus on young researchers at the IAS community event

  The Institute for Advanced Studies Luxembourg (IAS) of the University of Luxembourg held its annual community event on 23 November 2022, on Belval Campus, with interdisciplinarity as a leitmotiv.

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  A strong-as-steel collaboration between University and ArcelorMittal

  Building upon foundations forged more than 10 years ago, the University of Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal Foundation Luxembourg have agreed to extend their collaboration until 2025, through the ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction.

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  Bringing foreign investment to the Ukrainian economy during wartime

  As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many scholars and scientists have left the country. More than 30 Ukrainian researchers displaced by the war have temporarily joined the University of Luxembourg mainly as research fellows and in some cases under temporary contracts funded by the FNR. In this series of interviews, we briefly present…

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