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How We Help Tackle Cyberfraud In Africa

COVID-19 catapulted the world into a predominantly online shopping market on an unparalleled level to any event witnessed before in modern times. While some of us wouldn’t think twice about making online transactions, in developing countries these can be even more susceptible to fraudulent attacks due to insecure networks.

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Students Design Groundbreaking Satellite

In less than two semesters, the first cohort of students in the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) have successfully conceived, designed and developed GOLDCREST, a CubeSat project launched as part of their studies with the aim to measure Earth soil moisture from space.

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Inspiring The Next Generation Of Scientists

Every year, Attert-Lycée Redange hosts the Journée de l’Orientation, an annual event to help their students determine their potential career paths and choose a future area of study. Last Friday, Dr. Jan Thoemel, a Research Scientist at SnT presented his experience as an engineer and scientist to the students.

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IEEE WONS Conference: Raphaël Frank is the New General Chair

The IEEE Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) conference has been the home of a small community of wireless connectivity researchers for the past 17 years. Each year, the event welcomes roughly fifty participants for three days of exchange over their latest research.

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Chercheurs à l’Ecole: Interview with Eva Lagunas

Being a researcher is an exciting endeavour, but also one often misunderstood by the public. That is why the Fonds National de Recherche of Luxembourg (FNR) launched the “Chercheurs à l’école” programme in 2011. The purpose is to present this profession, and inspire the next young generation of researchers.

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Chercheurs à l’Ecole: Interview with Jose Luis Sanchez Lopez

Being a researcher is an exciting endeavour, but also one often misunderstood by the public. That is why the Fonds National de Recherche of Luxembourg (FNR) launched the “Chercheurs à l’école” programme in 2011. The purpose is to present this profession, and inspire the next young generation of researchers.

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We Can Keep International Women’s Day Until We Have Equity in Society

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted gender inequalities in academia, with women publishing fewer papers and suffering a drop in research hours. But the problem isn’t new, with the University of Luxembourg now looking to introduce a gender equality policy.

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In-Orbit Autonomy Gets Closer and Closer

In sci-fi movies autonomous droids’ shuttle across space to supply and service vehicles and space-stations. But before this long-term aspiration can be achieved, spacecraft need to be able to identify the objects with which they interact, as well as avoiding potentially damaging debris. Detecting the nature and trajectory of objects enables evasive action to be…

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Developing a Lean and Mean Compliance Machine

With software an ever present aspect of life and business, companies are now investing large sums of money to develop and test these systems. Yet many still rely on manual processes to verify and validate systems, or adopt highly sophisticated techniques that make sense in theory but fail to work in practice. SnT’s Prof. Domenico…

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Preparing for a 5G Future

As many other countries across the world, Luxembourg is currently in the process of evaluating the benefits of a local implementation of 5G systems and laying the technical groundwork. In 2019, to prepare for this transition to the new telecommunication standard, the Government launched a tender to call for research projects aiming at both investigating…