Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) hosted its annual FNR Awards ceremony on 23 October 2025 on the Belval Campus, in the presence of Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research and Higher Education and over 200 people.
Dr Florian Felten, based at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, received the Outstanding PhD Thesis award for his thesis “Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning”. Part of a project focused on automatically generating computer programmes to control swarms of drones, his research is helping AI to understand and navigate compromises.
Prof. Andreas Fickers of the University’s Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), his colleague Prof. Sonja Kmec (Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences) and Prof. Dietmar Hüser from Saarbrücken University received the Outstanding Scientific Achievement award for “Transnational popular culture – Europe in the long 1960s.” The team showed that popular culture circulates across linguistic and cultural barriers. Their approach set new standards for historical research into these complex processes.
Nominated by his team and students for his exceptional guidance and support, Prof. Christos Koulovatianos of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance received an Oustanding Mentor award.
Discover the other awardees on the FNR website, and previous awardees at the University of Luxembourg: