Research project MICRO-PATH DTU

About the training

By combining multi-faceted training activities leading to specialized as well as transferrable skills, the MICRO-PATH DTU candidates will achieve scientific and professional excellence by the end of their studies. Key elements of the holistic training program foreseen in MICRO-PATH are:

  • Conducting research in the framework of a doctoral research project under the guidance of the PhD Supervisor
  • Access to scientific and transferable skills courses such as project management, scientific writing, career development, presentation skills or good scientific practices
  • Active participation (poster, talks) in scientific conferences
  • Dedicated outreach activities
  • Scientific exchange, ranging from 1 week to 3 months, during the PhD
  • An environment fostering good research culture, self-care and well-being, as well as self-awareness

Consortium

The MICRO-PATH DTU will leverage the existing critical mass consolidated through the MICROH DTU and will bring together the extensive research expertise in microbiology and systems biology already established in Luxembourg in a concerted effort aimed at addressing pertinent questions regarding human health. It generates added value by synergising expertise across institutions such as multi-omics and computational approaches for microbiome analyses at the University of Luxembourg (UL), dietary and nutritional studies at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), and environmental microbiology at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Thereby, it brings together key know how and related supervisors from three leading Luxembourg public research institutions making MICRO-PATH much more than a mere sum of its parts.

Coordinators:

  • Paul Wilmes (coordinator, University of Luxembourg)
  • Mahesh Desai (co-coordinator, LIH)
  • Elisabeth Letellier (deputy coordinator, University of Luxembourg)
  • Henry-Michel Cauchie (deputy coordinator, LIST)

Supervising PIs:

  • Dirk Brenner (LIH)
  • Henry-Michel Cauchie (LIST)
  • Mahesh Desai (LIH)
  • Carole Devaux (LIH)
  • Michael Heneka (UL)
  • Annette Kuehn (LIH)
  • Elisabeth Letellier (UL)
  • Patrick May (UL)
  • Leslie Ogorzaly (LIST)
  • Emma Schymanski (UL)
  • Jochen Schneider (UL)
  • Martyna Szpakowska (LIH)
  • Anupam Sengupta (UL)
  • Christian Vincenot
  • Paul Wilmes (UL)
  • Evan Williams (UL)

Funding

MICRO-PATH is an inter-institutional, research-intensive doctoral training programme in Luxembourg coordinated by the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg. It is financially supported over a period of 6.5 years (January April 2025 – June 2030) by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) through the PRIDE funding scheme and co-financed via intramural funds from the partner institution UL, LIH, and LIST. The funding covers four years of PhD students’ salary and includes support for training & mobility.

FNR Grant Number: PRIDE23/18686828.

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