Category: Research

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    Amazon to support student research at the University of Luxembourg

    Amazon and the University of Luxembourg have signed a five-year agreement to support thesis research projects at the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance for students within the Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) programme.

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    How bacteria synchronise to build complex structures in good time

    Bacteria collaborate and coordinate collectively as they form a shared structure called a biofilm, such as the dental plaque on our teeth or the microbiome associated with our gut. This self-organisation in multiple complex layers – despite variations of cellular properties at individual level – requires that the living systems share common, yet precise time,…

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    Exploring the unification of EU patent protection

    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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    19 PhD positions in immunology and chronic inflammation – Apply now!

    In the framework of the NextImmune2 Doctoral Training Unit, the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) are recruiting 19 PhD students to work on research projects focusing on next generation immunoscience.

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    LURN: Connecting Ukrainian and Luxembourg Researchers

    A new Luxembourg Ukrainian Researcher Network (LURN) was unveiled in early August 2022 at the University of Luxembourg.

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    International study links socioeconomic deprivation to dementia risk

    Current research shows that cognitive impairment and dementia are, to a significant degree, determined by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.

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    Dr Martin Stöhr wins Rolf Tarrach Prize 2022

    The 2022 award for the best PhD thesis of the University of Luxembourg was conferred to Dr Martin Stöhr, PhD in Physics, for his work “Van der Waals Dispersion Interactions in Biomolecular Systems: Quantum-mechanical Insights and Methodological Advances”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr Alexandre Tkatchenko.

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    Encevo Launches First Joint Research Projects with Uni.lu and LIST

    Encevo S.A. announced today that they have signed a Partnership Framework Agreement with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), and the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT). This Partnership Framework Agreement follows the signature of an MoU in 2021. In this context, Encevo, SnT and LIST have also…

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    Professor Stéphane Bordas elected to the Learned Society of Wales

    Stéphane Bordas, Professor of Computational Mechanics at the University of Luxembourg’s Department of Engineering, has been named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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    Ukrainian refugee crisis tests humanitarian and integration policy

    In a new Research Note, researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), the University of Luxembourg and the European Migration Network (EMN) discuss the issues related to the massive inflow of displaced persons from Ukraine and the need for monitoring its consequences and implementing a solid evidence-based action plan to improve refugees’ integration.

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