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    COVID-19 pandemic and gender

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, I have virtually met all my coauthors’ children, and they have met my two small ones. Children were playing, fighting, or doing their homework under our supervision while we were discussing the model’s assumptions or the IV procedure’s validity.

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    University announces teaching modalities for winter semester 2020/21

    The upcoming Winter Semester 2020/21 at the University of Luxembourg will be taught in a mixture of remote and in-person classes.

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    University of Luxembourg celebrates its 1000th doctoral graduate

    The University of Luxembourg proudly celebrates an important milestone of its doctoral education. The University’s 1000th doctoral candidate graduated recently. Dr Carmine Gabriele completed his thesis “Essays on Financial Stability” at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, under the supervision of Prof. Thorsten Lehnert.

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    University Releases Beta of COVID-19 Exit Strategy Simulator

    A team at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), led by SnT Vice-Director Yves Le Traon, has developed an online tool to simulate COVID-19 exit strategy planning for close to 100 countries. The project is unique because it delivers a method to model the impact of different measures on…

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    University eases COVID-19 restrictions from 25 May: What will change?

    The University continues to ease COVID-19 related restrictions to facilitate a gradual and controlled return to campus.

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    Student survey notes high satisfaction level at University

    A survey conducted in the fall of 2019 notes a generally high satisfaction level among students with the University of Luxembourg. The overall satisfaction index stands at 3.79 on a scale ranging from one (“not satisfied”) to five (“very satisfied”). 29% of the student population participated in the survey, a response rate within the standard…

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    Survival prediction in patients with severe COVID-19 infection

    Taking advantage of a long-standing collaboration with the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg conducted a study based on blood samples from Chinese COVID-19 patients. They developed machine learning tools to identify crucial biomarkers of disease severity. Their results, recently published…

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    [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg’s COVID-19 fight

    Prof. Christos Koulovatianos is a Full Professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg

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    Survey reveals high satisfaction among University employees

    The University’s first satisfaction survey has revealed a generally high level of satisfaction among employees. The overall satisfaction index is 3.94, on a scale from 1-5 where 4 stands for ‘satisfied’.

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    [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg’s COVID-19 fight

    Élise Poillot is a Full Professor of Droit Civil at the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance.

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