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    SnT Project WavyMeet Selected for Fit 4 Start Programme

    A project created by Dr. Antonio Ken Iannillo at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, called WavyMeet, has been selected as one of the 15 finalists in the Fit 4 Start Acceleration Programme. Managed by the Ministry of Economy and Luxinnovation with support from Technoport, the LCI, LuxProvide and the…

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    Challenges on the Moon

    In early September, in a concert hall normally filled with the deafening bass line of the latest rock band, instead there was only quiet sounds of clicks and buzzing. The thing that is often overlooked about the moon is how quiet it is; and the European Space Agency (ESA) with the European Space Resources Centre…

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    Cybersecurity’s Impact on Society: Video Interview

    “Imagine we would live up to this long dream of Luxembourg being the secure data vault of Europe” says Prof. Marcus Volp, in a video made in collaboration with Silicon Luxembourg.

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    SnT Graduate Wins FNR Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

    Congratulations to Dr. Aakash Arora, a now graduated doctoral researcher of the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), who has been awarded the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) Outstanding PhD Thesis Award.

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    Studying CubeSats: A Look into the Orbit

    At the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), students of the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) can handle and develop miniaturised satellites, known as CubeSats. The CubeSatLab is a centrepiece of the ISM, and provides facilities that allow students to fully understand this revolutionary technology.

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    New publication: Monetary policy and venture capital markets

    The paper Monetary policy and venture capital markets (Christian Fisch with Cristianno Bellavitis and Silvio Vismara) was published in the Review of Corporate Finance.

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    How Dark Patterns Manipulate Internet Users Every Day

    As humans, we make hundreds of decisions in a day – and we like to think that we are free and autonomous. However, the truth is that we can be easily influenced. Marketers and vendors have known influencing strategies for as long as they’ve existed, but now such tactics exist on the digital platforms we…

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    Steering a Safer Future for Autonomous Systems

    Car accidents are one of the leading causes of avoidable deaths in Europe, and despite numbers falling in recent years, there were still almost 20,000 people who lost their lives in 2021 as a result. It’s a problem that has many proposed solutions under way, with the EU aiming to reduce the number of deaths…

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    New publication in Journal of Cleaner Production

    The paper Trademarks and how they relate to the sustainability and economic outcomes of social startups (Mirko Hirschmann with Jörn Block) was published in Journal of Cleaner Production.

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    Entering the Metaverse: 4 Oct Infrachain Summit Panel with Prof. Fisch

    To dive into the Metaverse join the Infrachain Summit 2022, on 4 October 2022 at d’Coque, Luxembourg. To close the event the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and Legal Hackers Luxembourg are hosting a panel discussion that will go into the practicalities of launching activities in the metaverse.

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