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Adriana González’s experience in climate change to strengthen ENERGE

Last December 2019, Adriana González, Doctoral researcher at the Department of Engineering, was once again designated as the Costa Rican Negotiator for the area of Technology at the “COP25 Chile” (Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework for the Convention of Climate Change) in Madrid, Spain. With her international experience in climate change,…

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Paul Wilmes reçoit une bourse « ERC Consolidator Grant »

Le Prof. Paul Wilmes du Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) de l’Université du Luxembourg a obtenu une prestigieuse bourse « Consolidator Grant » de l’ERC pour son projet « ExpoBiome ». Avec ce projet, Paul Wilmes va explorer les interactions entre les molécules microbiennes et le système immunitaire humain chez des patients atteints de la maladie…

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L’Université du Luxembourg renforce ses capacités de calculs intensifs

En mai 2020, l’Université donnera un coup d’accélérateur à ses recherches reposant sur le calcul intensif et de l’analyse « big data ». L’Université vient de signer un contrat de quatre ans avec Atos, leader international de la transformation digitale, pour fournir son supercalculateur BullSequana XH2000.

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Taming ultrafast electrons with light

Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with European researchers have exploited light to control the motion of electrons in a metallic nanocircuit. This could have major implications for the future of data processing and computing.

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Amal Tawakuli awarded the 2019 Zonta Women in Technology Scholarship

Amal Tawakuli, a doctoral candidate within the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) at the University of Luxembourg, has recently received the 2019 Women in Technology Scholarship from the Zonta International Foundation to highlight her remarkable career in the field of computer science. Amal is one of six women selected in the world to…

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Le Prof. em Seck reçoit la médaille de la Métropole du Grand Nancy

Le Prof. em. Pierre Seck s’est vu décerner la médaille de la Métropole du Grand Nancy, le samedi 14 décembre, pour sa contribution au renforcement des liens scientifiques et culturels entre Nancy et le Luxembourg.

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International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music

The office of the International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music (IGEB) has been transferred from the University of Arts in Graz (Austria) to the University of Luxembourg.

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Surfing on Quantum Waves: protein folding revisited

Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg have now unambiguously shown that quantum-mechanical wavelike interactions are indeed crucial even at the scale of natural biological processes.

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Three doctoral candidates in biology receive the 2019 Pelican Grant

Borja Gomez Ramos, Nadège Minoungou and Mina Tsenkova, three PhD students from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) at the University of Luxembourg, have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant from the Fondation du Pélican de Mie et Pierre Hippert-Faber. They will use the grant for their research activities in the fields of Parkinson’s disease,…

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