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2022 Pelican Grant: five doctoral students awarded
Learn moreSusanne Gonder, Elisa Gomez De Lope, Kyriaki Barmpa, Andrea Scafidi, Catherine Delbrouck have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant from the Fondation du Pélican de Mie et Pierre Hippert-Faber. It is now 10 years that the grant is offered to students in support to their training and mobility activities in the context of their research projects.
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The Mitacs Globalink Research awarded to Claudia Bandiera
Learn morePhD student Claudia Bandiera supervised by Prof. Viti and belonging to the FNR Bridges Maas4All, received the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) for research in Canada. This grant will allow her to spend 3 to 4 months at the Université de Montréal, hosted by Prof. Emma Frejinger where she will be able to work on her project “Mobility-as-a-Service Equilibrium…
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A new Doctoral Training Unit
Learn moreDiscipline of history from an “age of scarcity” to an “age of abundance”Making sense of such “big data of the past” requires new approaches to data management, mining, visualization, and interpretation – an endeavour that poses multiple challenges to the disciplines of both history and data science.
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ReCreate at the Expo – Shapes from the collective imagination
Learn moreHugo Parlier and Bruno Teheux from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Luxembourg recently came back from the Expo in Dubai where their project ReCreate was showcased at the Luxembourg pavilion for 10 days. Following the success of The Simplicity of Complexity in December, the mathematicians imagined a highly visual and immersive environment…
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Sara Vatavu named best student in Applied Information Technology
Learn moreProf. Franck Leprévost offered to award free copies of his two latest books to the best BINFO student of the first semester. This year the winning candidate is Sara Vatavu with an average grade of 19.0.
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The University of Luxembourg leading research in thermodynamics
Learn moreMolecular machines are the smallest machines ever built by mankind and such outstanding result has been sealed by the 2016 Nobel prize in Chemistry. But how do such machines really work?
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Tiny but Mighty: Atomic Forces at the Engineering Scale
Learn moreAn interdisciplinary manuscript reporting on a collaboration between physicists and computational engineers from the University of Luxembourg and Padova (Italy) has been published in Physical Review Letters. This work reveals that interactions between many electrons in materials can induce a colossal enhancement of atomic forces at the nanoscale and in large engineering-scale systems.
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An aspiring career in Space
Learn moreGuendalina Palmirotta works at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Germany as a National Young Graduate Trainee in the Space Weather Office. She always dreamt of joining the space industry and after studying at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, she was able to realise her dream. She answers some questions and explains here below…
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A new academic cooperation
Learn moreThe University of Luxembourg and the Freie Universität Berlin, ranked 83rd by Times Higher Education, have recently signed a 5 years agreement for academic cooperation and exchange.
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