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PhD Defense: INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CIRCULARITY OF CONCRETE AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
Event date: Friday, 24 March 2023
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Nombre – MNO - 1.030
Speaker: BOGOVICU Lorenc

  News & Events

Grande Région: Congrès médical sur la simulation et la digitalisation
Published on Tuesday, 02 March 2021
Les Facultés de Médecine et les centres hospitaliers de la Grande Région invitent les professionnels de la santé et les médias au congrès NHL-ChirEx, qui se tiendra les 11 et 12 mars sur une platef...
1 million Euros for black holes made from semimetals
Published on Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Semimetals are a class of materials which share features known from both metals and semiconductors. In recent years, it was found that the electrons flowing in certain novel – so-called “topologica...
University and Paul Wurth create Chair in Energy Process Engineering
Published on Thursday, 04 March 2021
Paul Wurth S.A., a company of SMS group, and the University of Luxembourg have entered into an agreement to create and finance the Paul Wurth Chair in Energy Process Engineering. The 5-year...
International Master in Biomedicine celebrates its first graduates
MBIOMED
Published on Thursday, 04 March 2021
Launched in 2018 as a tri-national programme with the University of Luxembourg, the University of Strasbourg and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the first graduates from the International...
Master in Technopreneurship: students start their first courses
MTECH
Published on Monday, 08 March 2021
The new Master in Technopreneurship: “Mastering smart ICT, standardisation and digital trust for enabling next generation of ICT solutions” officially started in February 2021 with 12 students. Thi...
University opens Master of Data Science in September 2021
Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021
Starting September 2021, the University of Luxembourg will offer a new Master of Data Science. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, the Master's programme will train students in data analysis, mo...
Towards green steel: Paul Wurth Chair in Energy Process Engineering
Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021
On 4 March, the University and Paul Wurth, a leading player in the design and supply of technological solutions for steelmaking and a company of the SMS group, announced the creation of the new Pau...
Astigmath - Math et culture
Astigmath culture
Event date: Sunday, 14 March 2021
Hour:  18:00 19:00
Place:  Online
Better understanding breast cancer
Breast cancer
Published on Monday, 15 March 2021
Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that Ser5 phosphorylation of the actin-bundling protein L-plastin increases breast cancer cell invasiveness. Their findings have been...
The reign of algorithms
Chess
Published on Friday, 19 March 2021
Jim Jean-Pierre Barthel, doctoral researcher within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, explains algorithms taking the example of chess game between human and machine.
Virtual Open Day 2021
Open Day 2021
Event date: Saturday, 20 March 2021
Hour:  9:00 18:00
Place:  Online
Chercheurs à l'école 2021: science is magic
Chercheurs
Published on Monday, 22 March 2021
From 15 to 19 March 2021, 17 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 10th edition of "Chercheurs à l’école" organised by the Luxembourg...
Successful virtual Open Day welcomes 2,500 guests
Published on Monday, 22 March 2021
More than 2,500 guests explored the University of Luxembourg during its Virtual Open Day on Saturday, 20 March. The vast majority of guests came from Luxembourg, representing 41%.
PhD Defense: Mathematical Approaches to Biological Complexity in Systems Biomedicine
Event date: Monday, 22 March 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Biotech II - Executive Room / Webex
Speaker: Susan GHADERI
First-year student in informatics awarded
Elmir
Published on Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Elmir Avdusinovic, who started the Bachelor in Applied Information Technology in September 2020, received a copy of the book “How Big is Big? How Fast is Fast?: A Hands-On Tutorial on Mathematics o...
Advancing diagnosis and therapy: Exploring the cancer microbiome
Published on Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Six new interdisciplinary research projects have received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.
PhD Defense: Exploring the role of Parkin in mitochondrial DNA maintenance pathways in iPSC-derived neuronal models from Parkinson's disease patients
Event date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Belval Campus – LCSB – Biotech II - Executive Room / Webex
Speaker: Kobi WASNER
Adding numbers and shuffling cards
Persi
Event date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Hour:  16:00 17:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University
Internships in science communication in Luxembourg
Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021

The University of Luxembourg is collaborating with 13 different partners in order to offer a variety of hands-on science communication internships for doctoral candidates i...

Astigmath: linking mathematics and culture
Culture
Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021
On the occasion of the Festival "Les maths dans tous leurs états" and to celebrate the Pi days, the University organised on 14 March 2021 the online interactive quiz "Astigmath:...
Preparing for the future of finance with a new interdisciplinary track
Published on Thursday, 25 March 2021
Starting September 2021, the Master in Finance and Economics will offer a new track of specialisation in Digital Transformation in Finance.
New Professor in computational interaction
Luis Leiva
Published on Monday, 29 March 2021
Luis Leiva recenlty joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg as Associate Professor in the fields of machine learning and human-computer interaction.
Lasting impact of birth mode on microbiome and immune system
Published on Monday, 29 March 2021
In a recent scientific publication, researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg address th...
PhD Defense: Droplet entrainment of fission products from sump water at elevated temperatures
Event date: Monday, 29 March 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus – Block D – Room D17
Speaker: Mohammed OUALLAL
Relais pour la Vie 2021: together and connected
Relais pour la Vie
Published on Tuesday, 30 March 2021
The cancer research team from the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg took part in the 2021 edition organised by the Fondation Cancer.
Achieving Explainable AI Through Semantic Technologies: Challenges and Future Directions in Digital Health
Dragoni
Event date: Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Dr. Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
10 years building colorectal cancer collection
Published on Friday, 16 April 2021
Initiated in 2011 by the University of Luxembourg and the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) as a concerted action against colorectal cancer (CRC), the collection of tumour samples from variou...
PhD Defense: Magnetoelectric thin-film composites for energy harvesting applications
Event date: Monday, 19 April 2021
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Room Conference F0.11
Speaker: Tai NGUYEN
PhD Defense: Understanding the role of colorectal cancer-associated bacteria in colorectal cancer
Event date: Monday, 19 April 2021
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Belval – Maison de la biomédecine Biotech II – Room BT2 E00-016
Speaker: Dominik TERNES
Virtual Bachelor's Days 2021
Bachelor Days 2021
Event date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Hour:  16:00 22-04 | 19:00
Place:  Online
FNR Covid19-projects: Humanities
Eugenio and Isabelle
Event date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Dr. Eugenio Peluso, LISER and Prof. Dr. Isabelle Astrid Albert, University of Luxembourg
Live Cancer Quiz (EN, FR & DE)
Event date: Friday, 23 April 2021
Hour:  19:00 21:00
Place:  Online (Zoom)
PhD Defense: Dry-stacked insulation masonry blocks based on Miscanthus concrete
Event date: Monday, 26 April 2021
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Belval campus – MNO Room 1.030
Speaker: Patrick PERIERA DIAS
Live Chats May & June 2021: find your study programme!
Live chats
Published on Tuesday, 27 April 2021
In May and June 2021, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine organises several live chats to answer all remaining questions regarding the study programmes offered at the Faculty. 
Helping robots analyse their surroundings
microscopy
Published on Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have recently presented a new material which can become a key component of a new infrastructure designed to help robots understand their surroundings. T...
PhD Defense: Comprehensive Peptidomic Analysis of Cell Culture Models and Exosomes
Event date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Hour:  13:30 14:30
Place:  Luxembourg – LIH – Room Rosalind Franklin
Speaker: Miriam FOUGERAS
FNR Covid19-projects: Humanities & ICT
Covid
Event date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Prof. Stefan Krebs, Prof. Robin Samuel and Dr. Jorge Augusto Meira, University of Luxembourg
An informative quiz night about cancer
Published on Thursday, 29 April 2021
On 23-25 April 2021, an interdisciplinary team of scientists in Luxembourg invited the public to participate in three interactive online quizzes around the topic of cancer. Participants learned mor...
PhD Defense: Identifying and targeting the metabolic vulnerabilities in IDH mutant gliomas
Event date: Thursday, 29 April 2021
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Luxembourg – LIH – Room Pasteur Curie / Webex
Speaker: Andrés CANO GALIANO
PhD Defense: Specification and model-driven trace checking of complex temporal properties
Event date: Thursday, 29 April 2021
Hour:  15:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg – JFK – Room E004/E005
Speaker: Chaima BOUFAIED
Smart Photo Booth - New workshops in computer science
Published on Monday, 03 May 2021
Discover the new computer science workshop for high-school students (15-19 years old) that will be offered five times between 7 June and 9 July. Registrations are open starting today!
The future is now - how can humans and robots live together?
Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021
TRANSCEND is one of six new interdisciplinary research projects which received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.
PhD Defense: Multiantenna signal processing with optimization algorithms
Event date: Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus – JFK Room 414
Speaker: ARORA Aakash
Machine Learning for Brain Health and Understanding at Starlab Neuroscience
Aureli
Event date: Wednesday, 05 May 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Dr. Aureli Soria-Frisch, Director, Neuroscience BU, Starlab Barcelona
Knotty Games
Allison
Event date: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Hour:  16:00 16:50
Place:  Online
Speaker: Prof. Allison Henrich, Seattle University
University bestows 1710 diplomas for the academic year 2019/2020
Published on Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The University of Luxembourg hosted a different “Graduation Week” on 11 and 12 May for graduates of the academic year 2019/20. The hybrid ceremonies allowed for award-winning graduates to receive t...
PhD Defense: Development of a multiplex digital PCR strategy for sensitive preanalytic characterisation of DNA and its application in molecular pathology
Event date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Dudelange - LNS - Semi-online
Speaker: DE FALCO Alfonso
FNR Covid19-projects: ICT
ICT
Event date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Dr. Muhannad Ismael (LIST), Dr. Jun Pang & Dr. Joshgun Sirajzade (University of Luxembourg)
PhD Defense: Dna Methylation: Conducting the orchestra from exposure to phenotypes
Event date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Esch-sur-Alzette – LIH – Webex
Speaker: GOMES FERNANDES Sara Beatriz
2020 Pelican Grant: five doctoral students awarded
Fondation du Luxembourg
Published on Thursday, 20 May 2021
Beatriz Garcia Santa Cruz, Dimitrios Kyriakis, Eleftheria Charalambous, Erica Grant and Mohaned Benzarti have recently been awarded the Pelican Grant from the Fondation du Pélican de Mie et Pierre...
ISED 2021: Impact of Covid-19 on Cybersecurity: national review and associated challenges
ISED
Event date: Friday, 21 May 2021
Hour:  9:00 12:30
Place:  Online
PhD Defense: Enhancing Smart Grid Resilience and Reliability by Using and Combining Simulation and Optimization Methods
Event date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus – JFK Room E004/005
Speaker: ANTONIADIS Nikolaos
FNR Covid19-projects: Life Sciences
covid life sciences 1
Event date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via webex
Speaker: Dr. Francesco Sarracino, STATEC, Dr. Aymeric Fouquier and Lisa Veiber, University of Luxembourg
New courses in general medicine, medical oncology and neurology
Published on Friday, 28 May 2021
Beginning in September 2021, the University of Luxembourg will offer three courses in medical specialisations for students holding a Master’s degree in medicine: general medicine, medical oncology...
PhD Defense: Legal knowledge extraction in the data protection domain based on ontology design patterns
Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: LEONE Valentina
PhD Defense: Algorithmic business and the EU law on fair trading
Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021
Hour:  13:00 15:00
Place:  Belval campus – MNO – Online Teams
Speaker: GALLI Federico
PhD Defense: Liquid Crystal Shells: from Physics Mysteries, via Chemistry Challenges, to Biosensing Opportunities
Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Luxembourg – Limpertsberg – Room 0.03
Speaker: SHARMA Anjali
Astigmath: Math et jeux
Astigmath
Event date: Sunday, 30 May 2021
Hour:  11:30 12:30
Place:  Online
How to manage the impact of Covid-19 on cybersecurity?
ISED
Published on Monday, 31 May 2021
The sixth edition of the Information Security Education Day (ISED) organised on 21 May 2021 by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered al...
Magnetic materials analysis has never been so comprehensible
Andreas book
Published on Monday, 31 May 2021
Professor Andreas Michels, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, explores the complex world of magnetic materials by shooting neutrons on them. He has now published his insights in a 380-page-...
Materials and metals in a circular economy: an opportunity for the Greater Region
Event date: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
Hour:  10:00 16:30
Place:  online
PhD Defense: Functional analysis of long noncoding RNAs in gliobastoma and chemoresistance
Event date: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
Hour:  13:00 14:00
Place:  Belval campus – MSA Room 3.010 / Online
Speaker: Mohamad SARMINI
LUX:plorations Vol. 1 Science Comic Exhibition @Luxembourg Science Center
Event date: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
Hour:  9:00 30-09 | 18:00
Place:  Luxembourg Science Center 50, rue Emile Mark 4620 Differdange
FNR Covid19-projects: Life Sciences
Covid Life Sciences
Event date: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via webex
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Husch and Dr. Anupam Sengupta, University of Luxembourg & Dr. Ulrich Leopold, LIST
PhD Defense: Chemical Vapor-Phase Deposition of Nanostructured Silver Layers
Event date: Friday, 04 June 2021
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Belval – LIST – Room F011A
Speaker: Sabrina Myriam WACK
PhD Defense: Dna Methylation: Conducting the orchestra from exposure to phenotypes
Event date: Friday, 04 June 2021
Hour:  10:30 11:30
Place:  Luxembourg – LIH – Online
Speaker: Sara Beatriz GOMES FERNANDES
Ten University Projects Granted Early Access to MeluXina
Published on Monday, 07 June 2021
Luxembourg’s first supercomputer MeluXina was officially launched on 7 June. MeluXina is a key element of Luxembourg’s data-driven innovation strategy, catering for the needs of companies, start-up...
DRIVEN Online Course on Iso-Geometric Analysis (IGA)
Event date: Monday, 07 June 2021
Hour:  9:00 09-06 | 13:00
Place:  Online (Webex)
Speaker: Professor Stéphane Bordas
Solar cell efficiency record: University of Luxembourg comes close
Published on Tuesday, 08 June 2021
A solar cell developed by physicists from the University of Luxembourg and Uppsala University has recently been certified with an efficiency of 14%, which comes close to the world record of 15.5%....
Science Writing Competition
Science writing competition: Pen writing research is everywhere
Published on Thursday, 10 June 2021
Research is everywhere and it is for everyone! All scientists and researchers in Luxembourg are asked to prove this by participating in this popular science writing competition. Articles about scie...
On the cap-set problem and the slice rank polynomial method
Lisa
Event date: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Hour:  16:00 16:50
Speaker: Lisa Sauermann
PhD Defense: Social Network Analysis for Digital Humanities
Event date: Thursday, 17 June 2021
Hour:  14:30 15:30
Place:  Belval campus – MNO - Online
Speaker: Antonio Maria FISCARELLI
PhD Defense: Characterization of novel covalent and non-covalent drugs against K-Ras surrogate targets
Event date: Friday, 18 June 2021
Hour:  15:00 16:00
Place:  Belval campus – Maison de la Biomédecine – Biotech I / Online
Speaker: Sunday Ojochegbe OKUTACHI
MATh.en.JEANS: secondary school students present their results
Math en Jeans
Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021
On 18 June 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 16 secondary school students from the lycée Alfred Mézières Longwy for a one day MATh.en.JEANS conference. Students had the opportunity to pre...
Mouse movements reveal your behaviour
Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021
In two recently published research papers, computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg and international partners show how mouse movements can be used to gain additional knowledge about t...
Celebrating women in engineering: An interview with Maryam Baniasadi
Published on Tuesday, 22 June 2021
23 June marks the International Women in Engineering Day. At the University of Luxembourg, we celebrate the work and achievements of women engineers.

Dr Maryam Baniasadi grew up in a middle...

PhD Defense: Tumour-associated microglia/macrophage heterogeneity in gliobastoma
Event date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Hour:  9:30 10:30
Place:  Luxembourg – LIH – Edison - Room Marie Curie & Louis Pasteur / Online
Speaker: Yolanda Sofia PIRES AFONSO
John Templeton Foundation grant to better understand the universe
Aurelia Chenu
Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021
Researcher Aurelia Chenu from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembourg has recently received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in order to p...
MASSENA Young Scientist Conference 2021
massena
Event date: Thursday, 24 June 2021
Hour:  8:30 25-06 | 18:00
Place:  Sport Hotel Leweck Lepschter-Dellt L-9378 Lipperscheid Luxembourg
PhD Defense: High-accuracy Surveying Methods and Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Event date: Friday, 25 June 2021
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus – Bât Central – Salle du Conseil
Speaker: Dietmar BACKES
Thermodynamic cost of active materials
Active
Published on Monday, 28 June 2021
An international team of scientists, including Professor Etienne Fodor, a theoretical physicist from the University of Luxembourg, have recently studied the thermodynamic cost in active field theor...
Making concrete more sustainable
Claude Turmes
Published on Monday, 28 June 2021
Engineers from the University of Luxembourg with European partners are working on innovative concrete precast products made of recycled aggregates and sands. On 25 June 2021, Minister for Energy an...
Biodiesel from wastewater? Turning a problem into an opportunity
Biodiesel
Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Sewage, what was called wastewater for a long time, is not a waste, but contains valuable substances that can be used as raw materials for biobased products. However, worldwide this potential is ha...
PhD Defense: Leveraging Execution Logs to Support Model Inference and Software Testing
Event date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Hour:  15:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus – JFK -Room 05 / Online
Speaker: Salma MESSAOUDI
LCL x FSTM Energy Seminar: Flexibility for the Energy System of the Future
Ferdi Löhndorf
Event date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Hour:  17:00 18:30
Place:  Campus Belval room MSA 3.510
Speaker: Prof. Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
“Memorandum of Understanding” between CentraleSupélec and Uni.lu
Published on Thursday, 01 July 2021
CentraleSupélec - Metz Campus is pleased to announce the signing of the first “Memorandum of Understanding” between the University of Luxembourg and CentraleSupélec. The main objective of this agre...
FSTM General Assembly 2021
AG
Event date: Thursday, 01 July 2021
Hour:  16:00 17:00
Place:  Onilne via Webex
PhD Defense: Using the Blockchain Technology for Trust Improvement of processes in Logistics and Transportation
Event date: Friday, 02 July 2021
Hour:  10:30 12:00
Place:  Université Paris-Saclay - France
Speaker: IMERI Adnan
PhD Defense: Topics in Computational Number Theory and Cryptanalysis - On Euclidean Lattices, Edwards Curves and Cryptographic Multilinear Maps
Event date: Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 4.520
Speaker: NOTARNICOLA Luca
PhD Defense: Steps Towards Semantic Code Search
Event date: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Bloc E – Meeting Room Rdc
Speaker: KIM Kisub
Young scientists exchange about energy materials
Massena
Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021
On 24-25 June 2021, the MASSENA Young Scientist Conference organised by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered almost 70 young researche...
PhD Defense: Complex Network Metrics in Manufacturing - Suitability and Interpretation
Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021
Hour:  9:30 11:30
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Room D17 (Salle des Conseils, Bâtiment Central)
Speaker: OMAR Yamila Mariel
PhD Defense: Study of bismuth-based antiferroelectric materials
Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.500
Speaker: MILESI-BRAULT Cosme
PhD Defense: An in-detailed investigation of the structure-to-properties relationship between oligomeric performance resins and rubbers
Event date: Thursday, 08 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Conference Room F011A
Speaker: WOLF Arnaud
The Faculty presents its main achievements 2019-2020
Highlights
Published on Friday, 09 July 2021
On the occasion of its General Assembly, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) presented the new brochure "FSTM Highlights 2019-2020". 
PhD Defense: Integrated multi-omic analyses of the dynamics of mobile genetic elements within a mixed microbial community
Event date: Friday, 09 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison de la Biomédecine I – Biotech I - Room Coffee Lounge
Speaker: MARTINEZ ARBAS Susana
International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF)
ICON STARF
Event date: Monday, 12 July 2021
Hour:  9:00 16-07 | 18:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Belval campus 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
PhD Defense: EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FACTORS ON COLON CANCER AND ITS MICROENVIRONMENT
Event date: Monday, 12 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison de la Biomédecine II – Biotech II - Room E00-016
Speaker: NURMIK Martin
PhD Defense: Novel Strategies for the Assessment of Exposure to Fast-Elimination Endocrine Disruptors with Non-Invasive Biological Sampling
Event date: Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Hour:  9:30 11:30
Place:  Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences – Room BS 1.03
Speaker: FAYS François
PhD Defense: LASER WELDING OF METALS TO POLYMERS UNDER THE SPECIAL INFLUENCE OF SURFACE PRETREATMENT ON INTERFACIAL THERMAL TRANSFER
Event date: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Hour:  9:15 11:15
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Bloc G - D 17 - Salle des Profs.
Speaker: AL-SAYYAD Adham
Developing new genomics technologies to map DNA epigenetic modifications and damage in humans, parasites and cancer
Event date: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online via Webex
Speaker: Dr Sergio Martinez-Cuestra AstraZeneca R&D and the University of Cambridge, UK
PhD Defense: PLASMA INITIATED CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION - FROM THE GROWTH MECHANISMS TO ULTRATHIN LOW-K POLYMER INSULATING LAYERS
Event date: Thursday, 15 July 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Conference Room F011A
Speaker: ABESSOLO ONDO Dominique
PhD Defense: Machine Learning for MIMO Detection and Eavesdropping with Symbol-Level Precoding Countermeasures
Event date: Thursday, 15 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - JFK - Room 414
Speaker: MAYOUCHE Abderrahmane
PhD Defense: High-accuracy Surveying Methods and Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Event date: Friday, 16 July 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Bât Central - Salle du Conseil
Speaker: BACKES Dietmar
PhD Defense: Quantitative limit theorems and geometric applications
Event date: Friday, 16 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval – MNO - Room 0122030
Speaker: NOTARNICOLA Massimo
Data Science Summer School for high-school students
Event date: Monday, 19 July 2021
Hour:  9:00 23-07 | 16:30
Place:  Belval Campus
Reducing the use of antibiotics to improve animal health
Alessio Buscemi
Published on Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Doctoral student Alessio Buscemi from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg together with international students have recently won the Innovation 4 Change (I4C) contest...
University supports Goodyear STEM Student Challenge
Stem challenge
Published on Thursday, 22 July 2021
For the second time, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) at the University of Luxembourg has supported the Goodyear STEM Student Challenge.
Esch 2022: computer science students develop applications
Belval Esch 2022
Published on Thursday, 22 July 2021
In the frame of the course “Software Engineering Project”, second-year students from the Bachelor in Applied Information Technology have developed applications for Esch 2022. Most of them developed...
Statistics: a constantly evolving field
Statistics
Published on Friday, 23 July 2021
On the occasion of the International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields (ICON STARF) which took place remotely on 12-16 July 2021, young researchers and renowned experts from around the wo...
PhD Defense: Design and synthesis of novel benzoxazines to replace traditional reinforcing resins in rubber compounds
Event date: Friday, 23 July 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Room F011A
Speaker: TREJO MACHÍN Acerina
Data Science Summer School: success for the first edition
Summer School
Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The first edition of the Data Science Summer School gathered 12 secondary school students from 19 to 23 July 2021 on Belval campus to learn more about data science. They enjoyed a lot the interacti...
Huawei Seeds for the Future: a great experience
Pietro
Published on Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Pietro Sgobba, doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Luxembourg, participated in the virtual session Huawei Seeds for the Future, which offers students a full immersion into Chinese...
Towards a global flood monitoring system
Flooding
Published on Thursday, 29 July 2021
Severe flooding following the heavy rainstorms of recent weeks caused devastating damages in central Europe. Situational awareness on the ground is crucial for effective disaster response, and toda...
PhD Defense: Enhancement of Vegetable Oil Functionality for Rubber-Composite Processing and Properties
Event date: Thursday, 29 July 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Room F011A
Speaker: DATTA SARMA Arpan
Luxembourg Olympiads in natural sciences: congrats to the winners!
Olympiades
Published on Friday, 30 July 2021
On 1 July 2021, 18 secondary school students who won the Luxembourg Biology Olympiad, the Luxembourg Chemistry Olympiad and the Luxembourg Physics Olympiad were congratulated during the award cerem...
Improving Security in Future Automotive Networks
SETICA
Published on Monday, 02 August 2021
The University of Luxembourg and Honda R&D Europe have decided to work together to investigate and develop new efficient and secure in-vehicle communication technology. The three-year research...
European scientists develop technology for protein identification
Published on Thursday, 05 August 2021
The University of Luxembourg participates in PROTEIN-ID, a research consortium that aspires to create device able to generate a proteins identity card. The newly funded project will develop a metho...
LUX:plorations science comic nominated for GINCO Award 2021
Published on Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The science comic "LUX:plorations - A Universe of Research Volume 1" is nominated for the GINCO Award 2021. The collection of short stories is on the shortlist for the “Best Shortform Com...
In memory of Nelly Kieffer
Published on Thursday, 19 August 2021
Nelly Kieffer passed away on August 3, 2021. She was professor for biology at the University of Luxembourg and its Faculty of Science, Technology, and Communication until 2007.
PhD Defense: Optimal Motion Planning and Control with Safety Guarantees for Aerial Robots
Event date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
Hour:  15:30 17:30
Place:  Kirchberg Campus – JFK – Online
Speaker: CASTILLO LOPEZ Manuel
Mathematician receives prestigious grant in machine learning
Mikolaj
Published on Monday, 30 August 2021
Mikołaj Kasprzak, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg has been recently selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship programme....
New Professor in Algebra joins the Department of Mathematics
Pieter
Published on Monday, 30 August 2021
Pieter Belmans has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Assistant Professor, specialised in algebraic geometry.
Can AI help with data protection risk assessment?
legAI
Published on Thursday, 02 September 2021
By combining machine reasoning, data analysis and legal expertise, computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg have developed a solution which enables companies to automate essential task...
DyProSo 2021: International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids
Limpertsberg
Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021
Hour:  9:00 08-09 | 18:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg 162a rue de la Faïencerie Luxembourg.
Math Camp 2021
Math Camp
Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021
Hour:  9:00 17-09 | 16:00
Place:  Belval campus Maison du Savoir
PhD Defense: Dynamic Pricing Strategies in the Carsharing Business: Profit Maximisation and Equity Considerations
Event date: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval – MSA – Room 3.500
Speaker: GIORGIONE Giulio
PhD Defense: Computational guided frameworks to identify signaling perturbations: application to cellular conversion, disease and regeneration
Event date: Thursday, 09 September 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux - Maison de la Biomédecine II, Biotech II – Riken B
Speaker: ZHENG Menglin
PhD Defense: Tumour Immune Evasion Promoted by Actin Cytoskeleton-Driven Polarization of Inhibitory Signals to the Immunological Synapse
Event date: Thursday, 09 September 2021
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Place: Luxembourg – LIH – Webex – Room Marie Curie/Louis Pasteur
Speaker: WURZER Hannah
PhD Defense: Structuration of piezotronic junctions for ultrasensitive strain sensors
Event date: Friday, 10 September 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux - LIST – Conference Room F0.11A
Speaker: JOLY Raoul
Physicists exchange about dynamical properties of solids
Mael
Published on Monday, 13 September 2021
From 6 to 8 September 2021, the university of Luxembourg hosted the 38th International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids (DyProSo 2021) on the campus Limpertsberg. The event,...
PhD Defense: FATIGUE LIFE OPTIMIZATION OF A HIGH-PRESSURE LOADED ALUMINUM VALVE BODY AND LEAKAGE INVESTIGATION FOR ELASTOMERIC SEALS AT LOW TEMPERATURE
Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg – Central Building – Room D10E
Speaker: REPPLINGER Christian
PhD Defense: Verification of Design Models of Cyber-Physical Systems Specified in Simulink
Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004/005
Speaker: GAALOUL Khouloud
PhD Defense: Attacks and Proofs for PAKE Protocols
Event date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Hour:  18:00 20:00
Place:  Belval – MNO - E01-0146010
Speaker: SALA Petra
Winners of Science Writing Competition
Published on Thursday, 16 September 2021
Following the launch of the first Science Writing Competition by the University of Luxembourg in June 2021, the Jury congratulates the five winners for their excellent writing: Daniele Proverbio, L...
Welcome, new students 2021-2022!
Published on Thursday, 16 September 2021
The University of Luxembourg welcomed over 1,000 new students on its traditional Welcome Day, on 16 September, on Belval Campus.
Welcome Day 2021
Welcome Day 2021
Event date: Thursday, 16 September 2021
Hour:  11:00 15:00
Place:  To be announced
PhD Defense: On the Maintenance of System User Interactive Tests
Event date: Thursday, 16 September 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Kirchberg – Building E - Ground floor meeting room (BLE-E00-012)
Speaker: RWEMALIKA Renaud
Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021: discover the magic of science!
Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg
Event date: Sunday, 19 September 2021
Hour:  10:00 18:00
Place:  Campus Kirchberg: 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg: 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg
PhD Defense: Communication Algorithms for 5G Internet of Things Systems via Satellites
Event date: Monday, 20 September 2021
Hour:  9:00 11:00
Place:  Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004
Speaker: KODHELI Oltjon
"Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021": 560 Visitors Discover Our Labs
Portes Ouvertes
Published on Tuesday, 21 September 2021
On 19 September 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 560 visitors on Kirchberg and Limpertsberg campus sites to discover the laboratories in engineering, space, mobility and physics in the f...
New courses in medicine launched
Published on Wednesday, 22 September 2021
On 20 September 2021, the University of Luxembourg honoured students of medicine and launched the new medical specialiations. More than 70 people attended the event in Belval.
PhD Defense: Transport in topological condensed matter systems
Event date: Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences
Speaker: EKSTRÖM Carl
Second edition of Math Camp: for a good start in mathematics
Math Camp
Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021
The second Math Camp, organised by the University of Luxembourg from 6 to 17 September 2021, gathered more than 150 new students who were interested in being well prepared to start their bachelor d...
Statistical physics provides novel strategies for low-power computers
Novel
Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the University of Louvain have reported a comprehensive theory on how to construct rigorous stochastic models of complex electroni...
PhD Defense: Development of a Decision Support System for Incorporating Risk Assessments during the System Design of Microsatellites
Event date: Friday, 24 September 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Kirchberg – JFK Building – Online
Speaker: PANDI PERUMAL Raja
PhD Defense: Reference Measurements and Simulations of Static and Dynamic Characteristics of Prestressed Concrete Bridges under Outdoor Conditions for Structural Health Monitoring
Event date: Friday, 24 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg – Bât Central – Salle D10E
Speaker: KEBIG Tanja
PhD Defense: TERT Homeostasis: Understanding and targeting the Telomerase promoter in anti-cancer strategies
Event date: Monday, 27 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval – MSA – Room 4.350
Speaker: HAFEZI François
AIFA21 – AI and the future of arts
Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Hour:  10:00 30-09 | 17:00
Place:  AI Pavilion: Computational Creativity Hub, MSA ground floor
PhD Defense: Investigation of the function of the antioxidant gluathione in B cells
Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Limpertsberg – Bât des Sciences – BSC 0.03
Speaker: FRANCHINA Davide
PhD Defense: Predictive Assistance for Security Risk Assessments
Event date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Place: Kirchberg – JFK Building – E004/005
Speaker: BETTAIEB Seifeddine
Mathematical Careers Day 2021
math careers day
Event date: Thursday, 30 September 2021
Hour:  16:15 19:00
Place:  Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
PhD Defense: Study of resorcinol formaldehyde latex adhesive in flexible rubber composites: Multiscale characterization of initial structure and its evolution upon thermal treatment
Event date: Friday, 01 October 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  LIST – Belvaux – Room F011
Speaker: ENGANATI Sachin Kumar
University launches a website for its Esch2022 projects
Published on Monday, 04 October 2021
In February 2022, the University’s hometown Esch-sur-Alzette will launch the European Capital of Culture 2022, under the leitmotiv REMIX. The University will support Esch2022 with eight diverse and...
PhD Defense: A Distributed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Traffic Management System
Event date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.180
Speaker: SAMIR LABIB Nader Nashaat
Discovering mathematical careers: a wide range of job opportunities
MathCareers
Published on Wednesday, 06 October 2021
On 30 September 2021, around 70 participants attended the third edition of the Mathematical Careers Day at the University of Luxembourg, on Belval campus. Bachelor, Master and PhD students in mathe...
Life Sciences PhD Days
Life Sciences PhD Days
Event date: Thursday, 07 October 2021
Hour:  9:00 08-10 | 18:00
Place:  Online
PhD Defense: Advanced characterization of silica surface networks in rubber compounds
Event date: Thursday, 07 October 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux - LIST – Room F001
Speaker: YAN Chuanyu
Journée d’introduction pour les médecins en voie de spécialisation
DES carre
Published on Friday, 08 October 2021
Le 30 septembre 2021, l’Université du Luxembourg a accueilli les jeunes médecins qui entament des études spécialisées en médecine générale, neurologie et oncologie médicale sur le campus de Limpert...
A new kind of creativity: Artificial Intelligence for the Arts
AIFA
Published on Friday, 08 October 2021
From 28 to 30 September 2021, the hybrid workshop AI and the Future of Art (AIFA) gathered more than 100 experts in artificial intelligence and artists to exchange about the growing interactions be...
New academic year 2021-2022 opens with optimism and hope
Published on Friday, 08 October 2021
The University of Luxembourg held its Rentrée Académique 2021-2022 on 7 October on Belval Campus.
PhD Defense: Spinning Functional Fibers : An Interplay of Rheology, Miscibility & Crosslinking
Event date: Friday, 08 October 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Limpertsberg – Bât de Science – Room 0.03
Speaker: VATS Shameek
PhD Defense: Investigating T cells in the context of Neuroimmunology: Molecular and cellular mechanisms during a stress response and a patient-based study in Parkinson's disease
Event date: Monday, 11 October 2021
Hour:  15:30 17:30
Place:  Esch-sur-Alzette – LIH - HoBH Dpt. Of Infection and Immunity – Room Françoise BARRE SINOUSSI
Speaker: CAPELLE Christophe
University to lead the first European Master’s programme in HPC
Published on Tuesday, 12 October 2021
A consortium of European partners led by the University of Luxembourg has been selected by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to design and implement the first pan-European High Performance Compu...
Launch of the Luxembourgish EPS Young Minds team
Young Minds Lux
Published on Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) have recently launched a national section of the European Physical Society (EPS) Young Mi...
PhD Defense: Ozone gas sensors based on off-stoichiometric copper-chromium-oxide thin films
Event date: Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux – LIST – Conference room
Speaker: ANTUNES AFONSO João Ricardo
What make statistics robust?
Zebra carre
Published on Monday, 18 October 2021
Robustness has become a major issue in statistical learning and deep learning today. Mathematician Yannick Baraud from the University of Luxembourg has recently published a paper in the prestigious...
Potential production of hydrogen in Luxembourg
Hydrogen
Published on Wednesday, 20 October 2021
On 15 October 2021, the University of Luxembourg gathered representatives from academia, government and industry to exchange about the implementation of the hydrogen strategy published in September...
Teaching Awards 2021: congrats to Gabor Wiese and Sebastiano Tronto
Gabor & Sebastiano
Published on Thursday, 21 October 2021
At the Rentrée Académique, Gabor Wiese, Professor in Mathematics and Sebastiano Tronto, Doctoral Researcher in Mathematics, received the Teaching Awards for their outstanding wo...
Secondary school students learn more about energy
Energy
Published on Friday, 22 October 2021
Students from the Lycée Michel Lucius participated in the energy balance workshop conceived by physicists and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg. By doing experiments with renewa...
Inauguration of Exploratis at the Luxembourg Science Center
Dés
Event date: Saturday, 23 October 2021
Hour:  15:00 18:00
Place:  Luxembourg Science Center 1 Rue John Ernest Dolibois, 4573 Differdange
FNR Awards 2021: two researchers in mathematics & physics shortlisted
Hugo & Martin
Published on Monday, 25 October 2021
Mathematician Hugo Parlier and physicist Martin Stöhr from the University of Luxembourg have been shorlisted at the 13th edition of the FNR Awards.
Exploratis: a new experimental station at the Science Center
Exploratis
Published on Thursday, 28 October 2021
The Luxembourg Science Center in Differdange now boasts a new experimental station called Exploratis. Faced with intriguing puzzles, visitors can either try them by themselves, race against ea...
Uni.lu @ Foire de l'Étudiant 2021
Event date: Thursday, 28 October 2021
Hour:  9:00 29-10 | 17:00
Place:  online
PhD Defense: Australian Indigenous life writing: a discourse analysis with word embedding modelling
Event date: Thursday, 28 October 2021
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1.020
Speaker: KAMLOVSKAYA Ekaterina
PhD Defense: Quantizations and moduli stacks of curves
Event date: Friday, 29 October 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1050
Speaker: KALUGIN Alexey
PhD Defense: Analysis of flow induced texturing in complex fluids with Brillouin Rheology - a proof of concept
Event date: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences – Room 1.04
Speaker: LEHR Claudius Moritz
Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 out now
Published on Friday, 05 November 2021
The University of Luxembourg just published Volume 2 of LUX:plorations, an award-nominated science comic. Local scientists and artists have teamed up to create eight short stories about science and...
Exhibition Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 @MSA
Event date: Friday, 05 November 2021
Hour:  8:00 27-12 | 18:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir Auditoires
Robotix-Academy Summer School 2021 in Luxembourg
Robotix Academy
Published on Wednesday, 10 November 2021
The 2021 edition of the Robotix-Academy took place at the University of Luxembourg on 7-8 October 2021. The two-day training gathered 14 participants from the Universities of Birkenfeld, Liège and...
University inaugurates its AION supercomputer
Published on Wednesday, 10 November 2021
The University of Luxembourg officially inaugurated its AION High Performance Computer (HPC) during a ceremony on Belval Campus. The new supercomputer now provides state-of-the-art support to the U...
AI in Action: BNAIC/BENELEARN 2021
BNAIC
Event date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Hour:  8:00 12-11 | 17:00
Place:  Belval campus
ICCMA 2021
iccma
Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021
Hour:  9:00 14-11 | 18:00
Place:  Virtual via zoom
Science Festival 2021: participate in our workshops!
Science Festival
Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021
Hour:  9:00 14-11 | 19:00
Place:  Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster + Musée national d’histoire naturelle
PhD Defense: Enhancing PV Hosting Capacity in Distribution Grid Configurations via Decentralized PV and Battery Inverter Control
Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus – Weicker – Room A25
Speaker: TORCHYAN Khachatur
11th HPC School
hpc
Event date: Friday, 12 November 2021
Hour:  8:30 19-11 | 12:45
Place:  Hybrid (WebEx + MSA)
Fondation Enovos "Prix d'Excellence” 2021 awarded to Elisa Urbain
Elisa
Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Elisa Urbain who graduated from the Master en Efficacité Energétique et Economique at the University of Luxembourg recently received the "Prix d'Excellence" from the Fondation Enovos. She...
Prof. Anton Thalmaier receives the Grand Prix en Mathématiques
Anton
Published on Tuesday, 16 November 2021
The "Grand Prix en Mathématiques de l’Institut Grand-ducal" also called “Prix de la Bourse de Luxembourg” was awarded to Anton Thalmaier, Professor in Stochastics Analysis within the Depa...
Science Festival 2021: researchers share their passion for science
Science Festival
Published on Thursday, 18 November 2021
On the occasion of the Science Festival Luxembourg which took place on 11-14 November 2021 at Neumünster Abbey, researchers from the University of Luxembourg interacted with the general public to e...
PhD Defense: Functional coatings based on MWCNT-Metal oxide nanocomposite for solar energy harvester application
Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021
Hour:  9:00 11:00
Place:  Belval, Maison du Savoir
Speaker: PRASADAM Vasu Prasad
PhD Defense: Interface Voc deficit in Cu(InGa)S2 solar cells: characterisation, simulation and mitigation
Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison du Savoir – Room 4.520
Speaker: SOOD Mohit
PhD Defense: Functional and phenotypical aspects of murine natural killer cells in the context of education
Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  LIH – House of BioHealth – Big Conference Room
Speaker: PATIL Neha
Information Day
Event date: Saturday, 20 November 2021
Hour:  10:00 16:00
Place:  online
Hyperbolic metamaterials provide a novel strategy for nanophotonics
Nanophotonics
Published on Monday, 22 November 2021
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with international partners from Sweden, USA and Italy have reported on a novel magnetically tunable optical effect in a special kind o...
Scienteens Lab launches new workshops in computer science
Published on Monday, 22 November 2021
The Scienteens Lab, an extracurricular learning centre of the University of Luxembourg, is organising its first workshops in computer science for secondary school pupils. Designed to be an interact...
PhD Defense: The antioxidant Glutathione as a regulator of natural killer cell immunity
Event date: Monday, 22 November 2021
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.110
Speaker: FRIAS GUERRA Luana
PhD Defense: Copper-Carbon Nanotube Composites for Lightning Strike Protections
Event date: Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  LIST conference room F011A
Speaker: DUHAIN Antoine Edmond
PhD Defense: 5G and beyond networks with UAV: trajectory design and resource allocation
Event date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Kirchberg Campus – JFK – Room 414
Speaker: TRAN DINH Hieu
PhD Defense: Co-Evaporation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites and Their Characterization via Scanning Probe Microscopy
Event date: Friday, 26 November 2021
Hour:  13:00 15:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences
Speaker: GALLET Thibaut, Quentin
New Professor in Statistics
Christophe Ley
Published on Monday, 29 November 2021
Christophe Ley has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Professor in Statistics. He will reinforce the growing team of statisticians in order to boost research and training in mathematic...
PhD Defense: The Th17 cell - IL22 axis depends on glutathione upon intestinal inflammation
Event date: Monday, 29 November 2021
Hour:  15:30 17:30
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.010
Speaker: BONETTI Lynn
Learning how to develop science workshops
Published on Wednesday, 01 December 2021
Scientists learned how to develop hands-on and brains-on science workshops for lay audiences in a training offered by the Luxembourg Science Center.
Les spécialistes en oncologie découvrent l’unité de simulation
Onco
Published on Friday, 03 December 2021
Dans le cadre de leur formation spécialisée en oncologie médicale, nos jeunes médecins en voie de spécialisation (MEVS) ont pu approfondir leurs connaissances et développer leurs compétences dans l...
Prestigious award for research work on steel construction
Award
Published on Friday, 03 December 2021
During the XIII Conference on Steel and Composite Construction which took place remotely on 25-26 November 2021, engineers from the University of Luxembourg received the Professor Eduardo de Arante...
PhD Defense: Signaling, function and modulation of CXCR3 variants
Event date: Friday, 03 December 2021
Hour:  9:30 11:30
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – MSA 4.180 / Webex
Speaker: REYNDERS Nathan
PhD Defense: Plasma-induced polymerization of liquid layers for the synthesis and deposition of Interpenetrating Polymer Network films
Event date: Friday, 03 December 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  LIST – Belvaux – Conference room F011A
Speaker: NIEMCZYK Edyta Monika
PhD Defense: Cellular Heterogeneity as Emergent Behavior in Systems Biology
Event date: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Biothech II - Maison de la Biomédecine II – Room Riken
Speaker: MARTINA Silvia
PhD Defense: Selection of lipid accumulator Microthrix parvicella in municipal wastewater treatment plants for subsequent biodiesel production
Event date: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus – Bâtiment Central – D10 D
Speaker: UWIZEYE Marie Louise
AI in action: How to recommit in Private Equity
Private equity
Published on Friday, 10 December 2021
Recommitments are essential for limited partner investors to maintain a target exposure to private equity. However, recommitting to new funds is irrevocable and expose investors to cashflow uncerta...
PhD Defense: Thermodynamics of Quantum Collisions
Event date: Monday, 13 December 2021
Hour:  15:30 17:30
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus - Bâtiment des Sciences – BS 0.03
Speaker: LOURENÇO JACOB Samuel
FSTM Graduation Ceremony 2021
Graduation
Event date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Hour:  14:00 20:00
Place:  Belval campus Maison du Savoir, Audimax (-1)
Working together with robots, how do you do that?
Robots
Event date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Hour:  14:30 16:00
Place:  2 Av. de l'Université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette Building MSA - Ground Floor - Computational Creativity Hub
Speaker: Egberdien van der Peijl
Accreditation for three study programmes in computer science
Acquin
Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021
The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine of the University announces the successful accreditation of three study programmes:
BRAINS - Uni students will conduct experiment in Space
Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Five students from the University of Luxembourg will send mini brains to the International Space Station (ISS) to carry out research experiments under microgravity con...
Two University professors on Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list
Stéphane & Alex
Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Professors Stéphane Bordas and Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine have been ranked among the world’s most influential academics on the “Highly Cited Researche...
PhD Defense: Sovability of systems invariant differential equations on symmetric spaces G/K
Event date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Hour:  10:30 12:30
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison du Nombre– MNO 1.050
Speaker: PALMIROTTA Guendalina
Developing new protocols to better understand quantum systems
Quantum
Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021
Aurélia Chenu, who joined the University of Luxembourg in January 2021, recently won the prestigious ATTRACT funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) to create her own group in quan...
Uni.lu “Simplicity of Complexity” showcased at Dubai World Expo
Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021
The University of Luxembourg’s project “the simplicity of complexity », initiated by the University’s Department of Mathematics, was featured at the Luxembourg’s Pavilion at the Dubai World Ex...
The Faculty celebrates its 2021 graduates in science
Graduation
Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021
The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine has conferred diplomas to 337 new graduates, namely 129 Bachelors, 120 Masters, 58 doctorates as well as 30 students from vocational trainings.
University confers over 1850 diplomas for the 2020/2021 academic year
Published on Friday, 17 December 2021
The University of Luxembourg has conferred over 1850 diplomas for the 2020/2021 academic year. A series of graduation ceremonies took place between 14 and 16 December for the Bachelor, Master and U...
Prof. Danièle Waldmann takes up a new challenge
Danièle Waldmann
Published on Wednesday, 05 January 2022
Danièle Waldmann, Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Luxembourg, has decided to take up a new challenge. As of 15 January 2022, she will lead the Institute of Solid Structures (Ins...
New research on how race and gender shape science
Gender - Lina Castellanos
Published on Monday, 10 January 2022
Researchers from the University of Luxembourg together with scientists from the University of Montreal, Georgia Tech and Berry College have recently demonstrated that racial and gender identities s...
Benelux competition in programming: learning how to solve problems
Student BAPC competition
Published on Wednesday, 12 January 2022
For the first time, students from the University of Luxembourg participated in the 2021 Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) which consisted in solving the most algorithmic problems/puzzles...
University publishes a pocket guide about science communication
Published on Thursday, 13 January 2022
Interested scientists, researchers and science communicators can find theoretical knowledge as well as practical tips on science communication in this new publication of the University of Luxembourg.
Des diplômés en médecine pourront continuer leurs études en Belgique
Published on Thursday, 13 January 2022
Le gouvernement luxembourgeois et le gouvernement de la Communauté française de Belgique ont signé un accord garantissant l'accès de huit diplômés du Bachelor en médecine de l'Université du Luxembo...
Workshop: From materials innovation to autonomous robots
Workshop
Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022
Hour:  9:00 20:00
Place:  Online
PhD Defense: On Trustworthy AI and Localized Complex Network Analytics
Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus- MNO – Room 1.040
Speaker: ESMAEILZADEH DILMAGHANI Saharnaz
PhD Defense: Laser fusion welding of Cu to Al with spiral trajectory and monitoring of process signals
Event date: Monday, 17 January 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus- Bloc G - Salle des Conseils D 18
Speaker: MATHIVANAN Karthik
Physics department workshop: developing synergies!
DPhyMS Workshop
Published on Tuesday, 18 January 2022
After a hiatus of over two-years caused by the pandemic, the second edition of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) workshop took place on 15 December 2021 at the Tramsscha...
PhD Defense: A tale of adversity: the impact of early life infection beyond the immune system
Event date: Thursday, 20 January 2022
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Esch-sur-Alzette - LIH - House of BioHealth - Room Salle Barré-Sinoussi / online
Speaker: MERZ Myriam Pia
PhD Defense: DAXX maintains heterochromatin at (peri)centromeres independently of ATRX, preventing R-loop-induced DNA double strand breaks and genomic instability
Event date: Friday, 21 January 2022
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Strassen - LIH - Edison - Room Salle Marie Curie & Louis Pasteur
Speaker: PINTO Lia
PhD Defense: Diet–gut microbiota axis in microbial B vitamin production, immune homeostasis, and food allergy
Event date: Monday, 24 January 2022
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Esch-sur-Alzette - LIH - House of BioHealth - Room Salle Barré-Sinoussi
Speaker: PARRISH Amy
Exhibition Science Comic LUX:plorations Vol. 2 @Luxembourg Science Center
Event date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Hour:  12:00 24-02 | 17:00
Place:  Luxembourg Science Center 1 Rue John Ernest Dolibois L-4573 Differdange
PhD Defense: Quantifying some properties of curves and arcs on hyperbolic surfaces
Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MSA – Room 3.110
Speaker: DOAN Nhât Minh
PhD Defense: Security, Scalability and Privacy in Applied Cryptography
Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Hour:  17:00 19:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO - Room 1.020
Speaker: VITTO Giuseppe
How to become the world record holder for solving the Rubik's cube
Sebastiano
Published on Monday, 31 January 2022
Sebastiano Tronto, doctoral student in Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg and 2021 World record holder for solving the Rubik's cube in the least amount of moves shares his passion about th...
PhD Defense: Oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate regulates gene expression through preferential inhibition of specific histone demethylases
Event date: Friday, 04 February 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus Department of Life Sciences and Medicine Biotech 2 – Room BT2-E00-015
Speaker: GAVRIIL Marios
Math Day 2022
Math Day 2022
Event date: Saturday, 05 February 2022
Hour:  9:30 15:00
Place:  Online
Jan Lagerwall obtains ERC Grant to produce smart mechanical sensors
Published on Monday, 07 February 2022
Prof. Jan Lagerwall, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, has obtained a Proof-of-concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He will work on the production of sheets and fibres o...
Inaugural lecture Prof. Mark Podolskij: New developments in high dimensional statistics
Mark Podolskij
Event date: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Hour:  11:00 14:00
Place:  Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.370
Speaker: Prof. Mark Podolskij
Shedding light into mechanics of biological systems
Published on Thursday, 10 February 2022
An interdisciplinary research article published in Nature Communications provides novel insights into collective mechanical forces induced by light absorbed in biological systems. This research is...
First Master student promotion in Data Science
Published on Friday, 11 February 2022
Launched in September 2021 with 17 students from all over the world, the Master of Data Science was officially inaugurated on 7 February 2022 at the University of Luxembourg on Belval campus. This...
Prof. Mark Podolskij gives inaugural lecture
Prof. Podolskij - inaugural lecture
Published on Monday, 14 February 2022
The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Technology (FSTM) and the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) came together on 8 February 2022 to officially welcome Prof. Mark Podolskij, full profess...
PhD Defense: Higher Supergeometry and Mathematical Physics
Event date: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval campus MNO - Room 1050
Speaker: IBARGÜENGOYTIA ARIAS Eduardo
First edition of the Math Day Competition
Published on Wednesday, 16 February 2022
On 5 February, the Maths Team of the Department of Mathematics organised for the very first time a mathematical competition involving 50 pupils from various high-schools in Luxembourg.
Two QuantERA granted to reinforce quantum science and technology!
Published on Thursday, 17 February 2022
Prof. Thomas Schmidt, Prof. Adolfo Del Campo and Associate Prof. Aurelia Chenu from the Physics and Materials Science Department of the University of Luxembourg h...
Participate in the project ReCreate!
Published on Thursday, 17 February 2022
The University of Luxembourg, and more specifically the Department of Mathematics, will be at the Expo in Dubai from 22 February to 5 March 2022 with their project ReCreate. This is the second time...
JEO award winner for findings in machine learning methods in sports
Published on Friday, 18 February 2022
PhD student Hans Van Eetveld has won the JEO Award for Young Researcher in Basic Science from the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. His paper on “Machine learn...
PhD Defense: Machine Learning in the Design Space Exploration of TSN networks
Event date: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval campus MSA – Room 3.520
Esch2022 European Capital of Culture: Launch with Uni.lu participation
Published on Friday, 25 February 2022
On Saturday 26 February, the Esch2022 European Capital of Culture will officially kick off in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg’s second-largest city and home of the University’s main campus. This major...
PhD Defense: Controllability of complex flow networks
Event date: Friday, 25 February 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval campus MSA – Room 3.010
Speaker: MAZUR Xavier
PhD Defense: Environmental performance assessment of an innovative modular construction concept composed of a permanent structure and flexible modular units
Event date: Friday, 25 February 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus Bâtiment Central – Salle du Conseil
Speaker: RAKOTONJANAHARY Tahiana
The FNR Smart Photo booth meets the public
Published on Monday, 28 February 2022
Discover AI through "Cutie" the robot 
A new academic cooperation
Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
The 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 ex...
Uni contributes cutting-edge projects to Esch2022 capital of culture
Published on Thursday, 03 March 2022
The University of Luxembourg is proud to be a partner of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. University researchers have designed cutting-edge projects blending art, science and research into...
PhD Defense: Machine Learning Force Fields of Flexible Molecules
Event date: Thursday, 03 March 2022
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus- Bâtiment des Sciences – Room BS0.03
Speaker: VASSILEV GALINDO Valentin
PhD Defense: Automation of CAN Bus Reverse Engineering: Approaches, Opportunities and Security Threats
Event date: Friday, 04 March 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus- MSA – Room 4.300
Speaker: BUSCEMI Alessio
An aspiring career in Space
Published on Friday, 11 March 2022
Guendalina 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...
The Opening of the Living Lab of the AI&ART Pavilion
Event date: Friday, 11 March 2022
Hour:  16:00 20:00
Place:  Computational Creativity Hub (CCH) - MSA Administration Building (Ground Floor)
Tiny but Mighty: Atomic Forces at the Engineering Scale
Published on Monday, 14 March 2022
An interdisciplinary manuscript reporting on a collaboration between physicists and computational engineers from the University of Luxembourg and Padova (Italy) has been published in Physical Revie...
The Rubik Show
Event date: Monday, 14 March 2022
Hour:  17:00 18:00
Speaker: Sebastiano Tronto
The University of Luxembourg leading research in thermodynamics
Published on Friday, 18 March 2022
Molecular 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?
Open Day 2022
Open Day 2022
Event date: Saturday, 19 March 2022
Hour:  9:00 17:00
Place:  Belval Campus Esch-sur-Alzette
Contextual Importance and Utility: how Could it Change Explainable AI?
Event date: Monday, 21 March 2022
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Online - Webex
Sara Vatavu named best student in Applied Information Technology
Published on Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Prof. 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...
WOW End Conference
Event date: Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Hour:  9:15 16:15
Place:  LocHal Tilburg, Burgemeester Brokxlaan 1000
Evade the Machines
Event date: Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Hour:  10:00 26-03 | 17:00
Place:  Luxembourg Learning Centre (Belval)
ReCreate at the Expo - Shapes from the collective imagination
Published on Thursday, 24 March 2022
Hugo 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 Luxembou...
PhD Defense: A posteriori error estimation for finite element approximations of fractional Laplacian problems and applications to poro–elasticity
Event date: Friday, 25 March 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1.010
Speaker: BULLE Raphaël
Science Fair: Science meets music
Sound event
Event date: Sunday, 27 March 2022
Hour:  10:00 18:00
Place:  Rockhal
A new Doctoral Training Unit
Published on Monday, 28 March 2022

Discipline of history from an “age of scarcity” to an “age of abundance”

Making sense of such “big data of the past” requires new approaches...

The Mitacs Globalink Research awarded to Claudia Bandiera
Published on Wednesday, 30 March 2022
PhD 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...
Mitacs Globalink Research awarded to Claudia Bandiera
Published on Wednesday, 30 March 2022
PhD student Claudia Bandiera, supervised by Prof. Viti and belonging to the FNR Bridges Maas4All, received the important Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) for research in Canada. She will be sp...
PhD Defense: Thermodynamics of chemical engines: A chemical reaction network approach
Event date: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Hour:  16:00 18:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus- Bâtiment des Sciences – Room BS0.03
Speaker: PENOCCHIO Emanuele
D4H: Data Science meets Digital History
DEEP DATA SCIENCE of DIGITAL HISTORY
Published on Friday, 01 April 2022
The mass digitisation of historical sources and the exponential growth native digital online sources have catapulted the discipline of history from an “age of scarcity” to an “age of abundance”. Ma...
Prof. Ladewig appointed to Paul Wurth Energy Process Engineering Chair
Published on Monday, 04 April 2022
On 4 March 2022, the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg-based company Paul Wurth, part of SMS Group, renewed their agreement on a teaching and research collaboration and appointed Bradley...
2022 Pelican Grant: five doctoral students awarded
Published on Friday, 08 April 2022
Susanne 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.&n...
LUX:plorations at the LuxCon 2022
Event date: Friday, 08 April 2022
Hour:  10:00 10-04 | 18:00
Place:  Centre culturel régional “opderschmelz” 1a, rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange
Uni's “ReCreate” Project draws over 1,000 visitors/day at Dubai Expo 
people using digital gadgets
Published on Monday, 11 April 2022
University researchers Hugo Parlier and Bruno Teheux from the Department of Mathematics (DMATH) of the University of Luxembourg transformed mathematics into mind-bending gameplay experiences and sh...
Uni.lu and LuxProvide sign MeluXina supercomputer framework agreement
Published on Thursday, 14 April 2022
The University of Luxembourg and LuxProvide, operator of the Luxembourg supercomputer MeluXina, have signed a framework agreement to cooperate through the participation in common research and innov...
PhD presentation event of Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences
Published on Tuesday, 19 April 2022
On 22 March 2022, 20 promising doctoral students from the DTU DRIVEN presented their research in the field of computational sciences and...
Fruitful collaboration with the University of Namur
Published on Thursday, 21 April 2022
Over two meetings, the University of Luxembourg and the University of Namur have intensified their collaboration, especially in the area of medical education.
FNR PRIDE grants awarded to Cancer and Immunology research projects
Published on Monday, 25 April 2022
Following the 2021 PRIDE call, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has retained for funding two Doctoral Training Units (DTUs) working on cancer and immunology research. Within the D...
ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials for Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko
Alexandre Tkatchenko
Published on Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and professor of theoretical chemical physics at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an Advanced G...
Virtual Reality Workshop for Bachelor in Engineering students
Published on Thursday, 28 April 2022
In order for students to not only learn specific knowledge related to one area but to be able to identify more interrelated problems, the value stream management (VSM) topic is an integral part of...
The Sound of Data – Science meets Music
Event date: Sunday, 01 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 19:30
Place:  Rockhal, Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette
PhD Defense: Digital Twin framework for Human-Robot Interaction by means of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies
Event date: Monday, 02 May 2022
Hour:  10:30 12:30
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Bloc G - Room D 17, Salle des Professeurs
Speaker: GALLALA Abir
Dept. of Physics & Materials Science and LIST/MRT cohost PhD gathering
Published on Tuesday, 03 May 2022
In the framework of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science (DPPM), the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) of the University of Luxembourg and the Department...
University researcher receives the first EIC grant in Luxembourg
Philip Dale
Published on Wednesday, 04 May 2022
A consortium including the University of Luxembourg has been awarded a prestigious PathFinder Open grant of the European Innovation Council (EIC) that supports innovative and disruptive t...
PhD Defense: Investigation in reusable composite flooring systems in steel and concrete based on composite behaviour by friction
Event date: Thursday, 05 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Room D 17
Speaker: FODOR Jovan
PhD Defense: Optical measurement under space conditions
Event date: Friday, 06 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus
Speaker: BREMER Mats Wilhelm
PhD Defense: Characterization of the surface properties of polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 using a combination of scanning probe microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Event date: Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus - Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BSC 0.03
Speaker: KAMENI BOUMENOU Christian
A day for high school students to discover medical studies
Published on Thursday, 12 May 2022
Contemplating a medical career requires an early immersion, to navigate numerous challenges ranging from admission processes to rigorous scientific background requirements.
Luxembourg Supercomputing Day 2022
Event date: Thursday, 12 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 18:00
Place:  Chamber of Commerce
A First Step to Space for High School Students
Published on Friday, 13 May 2022
On 23 April a select group of Luxembourgish high school students gathered at the Elsenborn Airbase in Belgium to experience the satisfaction of launching a satellite for themselves. The students we...
Art & AI: Meet Artist/Student - student workshop
Event date: Friday, 13 May 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Computational Creativity Hub
Art & AI: Meet Artist/Student - artist workshop
Event date: Saturday, 14 May 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Computational Creativity Hub
Science Workshops at the Nuit de la Culture 2022
Event date: Saturday, 14 May 2022
Hour:  18:30 21:30
Place:  Centre Omnisports Henri Schmitz Hall 2
PhD Defense: Lengths and intersections of curves on surfaces
Event date: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Nombre (MNO) - Room 1.050
Speaker: VO Thi Hanh
PhD Defense: INTERROGATING INTRA-TUMORAL HETEROGENEITY AND TREATMENT RESISTANCE IN GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENT-DERIVED XENOGRAFT MODELS USING SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING
Event date: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Place: Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir - Room MSA 3.370
Speaker: YABO Yahaya Abubakar
Girls Exploring Math: the fight for more women in STEM begins early
Published on Thursday, 19 May 2022
Girls are often victims of stereotypes and gendered behaviours which keep them from choosing mathematics and other scientific disciplines in their higher studies.
Exhibition opening and demos - Imaginary Landscapes
Event date: Thursday, 19 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 18:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Computational Creativity Hub
ISED 2022: Demystifying the Dark Web: Challenges & Threats
ISED 2022
Event date: Friday, 20 May 2022
Hour:  9:00 12:30
Place:  Belval campus Maison du Savoir, room 3.350 (3rd floor)
PhD Defense: Crack initiation and early growth in silica-filled Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SSBR)
Event date: Friday, 20 May 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Place: LIST - Belvaux site - Room F-011A
Speaker: PADMANATHAN Hiron Raja
PhD Defense: Fractal dimension and pointwise properties of trajectories of fractional processes
Event date: Friday, 20 May 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Place: Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir - Room MSA 3.520
Speaker: DAW Lara
FNR PRIDE grants to boost research in math and sustainable composites
Published on Monday, 23 May 2022
Two new doctoral training units (DTUs) at the University of Luxembourg (UL) receive the 2021 PRIDE grants awarded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). 

PRIDE is the FNR’s ma...

Exoplanets: observation, diversity and habitability
Event date: Monday, 23 May 2022
Hour:  10:00 13:00
Place:  Belval Campus, MSH Room 0.200
Speaker: Franck Selsis, LAB (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux)
Exoplanets: observation, diversity and habitability
Exoplanets
Event date: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Hour:  10:00 13:00
Place:  Belval Campus, MSA Room 3.370
Speaker: Franck Selsis, LAB (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux)
Department of Engineering digitizes extensive library
Published on Wednesday, 25 May 2022
As part of the Gilbert Trausch Project, carried out by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Institut d’Histoire (IHist) of the University of Luxembourg, the Geodesy and Ge...
New Strategic Advisor to the Dean appointed
Published on Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Berta Rato has been appointed Strategic Advisor to the Dean, a position that was created recently.
Information Security Education Day (ISED) - 2022 Edition
Published on Monday, 30 May 2022
The seventh edition of the ISED took place 20 May 2022 in Maison du Savoir on Belval campus and tackled the topic “Demystifying the Dark Web: Challenges & Threats". Around 50 p...
Engineering students design and manufacture personal wind turbines
Published on Wednesday, 01 June 2022
A group of 45 students from the Bachelor in Engineering program at the University of Luxembourg has developed personal wind turbines as part of a competitive project-based learning course. The obje...
PhD Defense: First-principles investigation of ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity in HfO2-based materials
Event date: Friday, 03 June 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Belvaux building - Conference room F0.11A
Speaker: DUTTA Sangita
Eco-Construction for Sustainable Development (ECON4SD) - closing workshop
Event date: Friday, 03 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 18:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Room 4.520
Art & AI: Automatic Mixed Painting - student workshop
Event date: Friday, 03 June 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Computational Creativity Hub
Art & AI: Automatic Mixed Painting - artist workshop
Event date: Saturday, 04 June 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Computational Creativity Hub
BSc Physics student publishes breakthrough article on quantum chaos
Published on Tuesday, 07 June 2022
The quest for the understanding of complex quantum systems and their properties occupies a central stage at the frontiers of physics, with applications ranging from material science to black holes....
International Team Identifies Neurotoxins generated by COVID-19
Detail of neurotoxins associated with COVID-19
Published on Monday, 13 June 2022
New results from an international research team composed of the La Trobe and Swinburne Universities in Melbourne, ETH Zurich, and the University of Luxembourg, published in the peer reviewed Nature...
EuADS Summer School on Data Science for Social Media
Event date: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Hour:  12:00 17-06 | 12:00
Place:  Where: Chambre de Commerce, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
PhD Defense: FABRICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL GRADIENTS FOR BIOSENSING
Event date: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Belvaux building - Conference room F0.11A
Speaker: MALEKZADSANI NOBAR Hediyeh
PhD Defense: Environmental performance assessment of an innovative modular construction concept composed of a permanent structure and flexible modular units
Event date: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Place: Kirchberg Campus - Salle D17 (Salle du conseil)
Speaker: RAKOTONJANAHARY Tahiana Roland Michael
Research on next-generation fitness tracker receives Lux-Quebec grant
Published on Thursday, 16 June 2022
NextStepEI (Next level step monitoring in health, sports and medicine by augmenting gait with meaningful environmental information), a new bilateral research project co-coordinated by teams at the...
PhD Defense: THE EUROPEAN LEGAL APPROACH TO OPEN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH DATA
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: PASERI Ludovica
PhD Defense: Methods and tools for analysis and management of Risks and Regulatory Compliance in the healthcare sector: the Hospital at Home
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Place: Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: AMANTEA Ilaria Angela
PhD Defense: Methods and tools for analysis and management of Risks and Regulatory Compliance in the healthcare sector: the Hospital at Home
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: AMANTEA Ilaria Angela
PhD Defense: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence to Extract Patterns and Rules from Argumentative and Legal Texts
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: LIGA Davide
PhD Defense: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence to Extract Patterns and Rules from Argumentative and Legal Texts
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: LIGA Davide
PhD Defense: Digital Forensics-AI: on Practicality, Optimality, and Interpretability of Digital Evidence Mining Techniques
Event date: Friday, 17 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Italy - University of Bologna
Speaker: SOLANKE Abiodun Abdullahi
Study shows microbiome-derived formate promotes colorectal cancer
Published on Monday, 20 June 2022
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and lethal malignancies in Western countries. It is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second most common cause of death from cancer...
PhD Defense: Design, Cryptanalysis and Protection of Symmetric Encryption Algorithms
Event date: Friday, 24 June 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO - Room 10.030
Speaker: CARDOSO DOS SANTOS Luan
PhD Defense: Design, Cryptanalysis and Protection of Symmetric Encryption Algorithms
Event date: Friday, 24 June 2022
Hour:  14:30 16:30
Place:  Place: Belval Campus – MNO - Room 10.030
Speaker: CARDOSO DOS SANTOS Luan
Belgian and Luxembourgish ambassadors visit the AI & Art Pavilion
Published on Monday, 27 June 2022
Within the framework of the Esch 2022 initiative, and as part of a joint event between the Business Club Belgium-Luxembourg (BCBL) and the Belgian Business Club Luxembourg (BBCL), a delegation comp...
PhD Defense: Grain boundaries and potassium post-deposition treatments in chalcopyrite solar cells
Event date: Monday, 27 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences – BSC-003
Speaker: MARTIN LANZONI Evandro
PhD Defense: Grain boundaries and potassium post-deposition treatments in chalcopyrite solar cells
Event date: Monday, 27 June 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Place: Limpertsberg Campus – Bâtiment des Sciences – BSC-003
Speaker: MARTIN LANZONI Evandro
STLE Edmond E. Bisson Best Paper Award
Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Scientists from University of Luxembourg and HYDAC win STLE Edmond E. Bisson Best Paper Award
Workshop “Space & Technical Standardization”
Event date: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Hour:  9:30 14:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg (Belval Campus) Biotech II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux
Remix Culture: Interface Cultures @ the AI&Art Pavilion for Esch2022
Event date: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Hour:  18:00 22-07 | 12:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir Administration Building - Computational Creativity Hub (ground floor)
Super-resolution microscopy of living cells: Challenges and potentials
Event date: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Hour:  11:00 12:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir, Room 4.510
Speaker: Prof. Christian Eggeling
FSTM General Assembly 2022
Event date: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Hour:  16:00 22:00
Place:  Belval campus
University scientists receive top awards at Science Image Competition
Published on Monday, 04 July 2022

A “sunspot”, an Antarctica mission and liquid crystals – these are the topics of three award winning images at this year’s FNR (Luxembourg National Research Fund) Science Imag...

Professor Stéphane Bordas elected to the Learned Society of Wales
Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Stéphane Bordas, Professor of Computational Mechanics at the University of Luxembourg’s Department of Engineering, has been named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Médecine et fin de vie – expériences et réflexions
Event date: Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Hour:  16:00 17:30
Place:  Maison des Arts et des Etudiants 4, Place de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
Médecine et fin de vie – expériences et réflexions
Das Warschauer Konzert
Event date: Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Hour:  16:00 17:30
Place:  Maison des Arts et des Etudiants 4, Place de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
ILNAS publishes its Aerospace Sector Standards Analysis
Published on Wednesday, 06 July 2022
In the framework of the National Standard...
Medicine and the end of life - experiences and insights
Published on Monday, 11 July 2022
To mark the publication of the book Das Warschauer Konzert - oder der letzte Gang (loosely translated as “The Warsaw Concerto – or the final curtain”) by Dr. Bernard Thill, the medical education te...
The release of a new book in Mathematics
Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Jean-Luc Marichal and Naïm Zenaïdi recently published "A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions", a distinguished book on the developments in Mat...
Dr Martin Stöhr wins Rolf Tarrach Prize 2022
Martin Stoehr
Published on Wednesday, 13 July 2022
The 2022 award for the best PhD thesis of the University of Luxembourg was conferred to Dr Martin Stöhr, PhD in Physics, for his work “Van der Waals Dispersion Interactions in Biomolecular Systems:...
Energy Innovations and Issues on Ramping-Up European H2-Economy
Event date: Friday, 15 July 2022
Hour:  13:00 19:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus
Speaker: Prof. Stefan Maas, University of Luxembourg
3-Day Meeting of statisticians in Paris
Event date: Monday, 18 July 2022
Hour:  8:00 20-07 | 18:00
Place:  Institut Poincaré
Active Time Management: Strategies from the bacterial world
Published on Friday, 22 July 2022
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how living systems - despite large differences at the level of individual properties - execute key biological processes in a timely manner.
A new research program established with the SnT
Published on Monday, 01 August 2022
Since 2017, ILNAS and the University of Luxembourg, via its Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), have established a partnership to bring technical standardization an...
The University proposes a visual math dictionary in 20+ language
Published on Friday, 05 August 2022
The Visual Mathematical Dictionary is an ongoing collaborative and didactical project aimed at breaking language barriers.
A summer school and conference about statistics
Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2022
From the 18 to the 20 July, around 40 people participated in the 3-Day meeting of Statisticians in Paris hosted by Institut Henri Poincaré. Participants had the chance to listen to leading research...
ECOSS 35: The 35th European Conference on Surface Science
Event date: Monday, 29 August 2022
Hour:  8:00 02-09 | 18:00
Place:  Belval campus
Seeds for the Future program
Event date: Monday, 29 August 2022
Hour:  9:00 05-09 | 18:00
How to write a successful FNR BRIDGES/Industrial Fellowship proposal
Event date: Thursday, 01 September 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Bertrand Dessart
First professors appointed in nursing sciences
Published on Monday, 05 September 2022
The Board of Governors of the University of Luxembourg has appointed Laurence Bernard and Marie Friedel Full professors in Nursing Sciences who will jointly develop a comprehensive study offer in N...
University of Luxembourg to use AWS Processors in HPC Research
Published on Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Today, the University of Luxembourg announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud computing infrastructure in order to accelerat...
Re-make, Re-do, Re-imagine: Forum Z on Experimental Media Archaeology
Event date: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
Hour:  18:00 20:00
Place:  Large Hall + Small Hall Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette
Spresso: Historical newspaper photography goes supercomputing
Published on Monday, 12 September 2022
While supercomputers are traditionally being used in physics, material science and advanced chemistry, the Spresso project entails the very first formal cooperation between the Luxembourgish superc...
Computer Science Workshop - Art & AI
Event date: Monday, 12 September 2022
Hour:  14:00 17:00
Place:  Campus Belval - Scienteens Lab - BioTech I (BT1) 7 avenue des Hauts Fourneaux L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette
Partnership with Daiwa Pharmaceutical on dietary guidelines in cancer
Published on Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The University of Luxembourg and Daiwa Pharmaceutical, a Japanese leading supplier of functional foods, have entered a strategic partnership, along with the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch and th...
“Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”: Visit University Labs
Published on Thursday, 15 September 2022
The University of Luxembourg will participate in the 16th edition of the “Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”.
Sorption and Concentration-Dependent Diffusivity of High-Pressure CO2 in Engineering Polymers
Event date: Thursday, 15 September 2022
Hour:  9:00 10:00
Place:  Campus Kirchberg, Room D10D
Speaker: Dr Chris Tighe
EIC Pathfinder grant for research in AI-driven data visualisation
Published on Friday, 16 September 2022
A team of researchers from the University of Luxembourg, AEGIS IT Research GmbH (Germany), Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and Telefónica I+D (Spain) has received an EIC Pathfinder Chal...
Welcome Day 2022
Welcome Day 2022
Event date: Friday, 16 September 2022
Hour:  9:00 17:00
Place:  Belval Campus
Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2022 - Open Lab Day
Event date: Sunday, 18 September 2022
Hour:  10:00 18:00
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus and Kirchberg Campus
Uni opens physics and engineering labs for 16th Portes Ouvertes
Published on Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Following in previous years’ footsteps, the University of Luxembourg once again opened its physics and engineering laboratories to the public this year.
ECOSS 2022: University hosts successful surface science conference
Published on Thursday, 22 September 2022
The 35th edition of the European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS) was held in the week of the 29 August - 02 September 2022 in the Maison du Savoir, the main building of the University of Luxe...
Agreement with Ministry of Economy for teaching and research in HPC
Master européen en High-Performance Computing
Published on Friday, 23 September 2022
The Ministry of the Economy and the University of Luxembourg have signed an agreement that provides a framework for higher education and research activities focused on High-Performance Computing, i...
Promoting research and teaching in German speaking universities
Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2022
From 8 to 10 September, the annual conference of the WGAB (wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Arbeits- und betriebsorganisation - Scientific Society for Work and Business Organization) took place i...
Science Slam 2022
Luxembourg Science Slam 2022
Event date: Friday, 30 September 2022
Hour:  19:00 22:00
Place:  Neumünster Abbey 28, Rue Münster 2160 Luxembourg
39th Conference on Continuing Administrative Studies and Training
Event date: Thursday, 06 October 2022
Hour:  9:00 08-10 | 18:00
Place:  Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines
PhD Defense: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR AIR-GAP MEMBRANE DISTILLATION ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION
Event date: Friday, 07 October 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Place: Kirchberg Campus – Bloc C - Room E00-D17
Speaker: DALLE Marie-Alix
Mathematical Careers Day 2022
Event date: Friday, 07 October 2022
Hour:  17:00 20:00
Place:  Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, room 3.530
The PACE Young Scientists Conference 2022
Event date: Monday, 10 October 2022
Hour:  9:30 12-10 | 16:00
Place:  Sport Hotel Leweck Lepschter-Dellt L-9378 Lipperscheid Luxembourg
Colour-changing fibres for smart clothes
Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2022
When we think about clothing, we usually think of it as something we wear to cover our body, convey our style and protect us from the environment. What if the cloth changes its visual appearance wh...
Rentrée Académique : l’Université s’engage pour la paix et l’avenir
Published on Thursday, 13 October 2022
L’Université du Luxembourg a accueilli des étudiants, professeurs et personnel lors de la Rentrée Académique, ce mercredi 12 octobre 2022 sur le Campus de Belval.
PhD Defense: Evolutionary Algorithm Based Adversarial Attacks Against Image Classification Convolutional Neural Networks
Event date: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Place: Belval Campus – Maison du Nombre – Room MNO 0.010
Speaker: CHITIC Ioana Raluca
PhD Defense: Induced superconductivity in a quantum Hall edge state
Event date: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Place: United Kingdom - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews
Speaker: MICHELSEN Andreas Nicolai Bock
If only Data could talk ...
Event date: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Hour:  15:30 18:30
Place:  Technoport 9 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette
University welcomes more than a hundred students for its 3rd Math Camp
Published on Friday, 14 October 2022
The Math Camp is organised annually at the beginning of the academic year. It offers a mathematical warm up to all first-year students to ease the transition between high school and university, and...
World Restart a Heart Day
Event date: Friday, 14 October 2022
Hour:  9:00 12:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir - entrance hall
World Standards Day
Event date: Friday, 14 October 2022
Hour:  13:30 13-10 | 21:00
Place:  Université du Luxembourg (Campus de Belval) Biotech II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux
Conference on Continuing Administrative Studies and Training a success
Published on Monday, 17 October 2022
On 6, 7 and 8 October, the University's Medicine Department hosted the 39th Conference on Continuing Administrative Studies and Training, organised by the AUFEMO (Association of French-Speaking and...
PhD Defense: Post-quantum Remote Device Authentication and Data Analysis Protocols for IoT
Event date: Monday, 17 October 2022
Hour:  13:30 15:30
Place:  Place: LIST – Maison de l’Innovation - Room 345
Speaker: LIU Bowen
Launch of 2nd year programme for doctors undergoing specialty training
Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2022
During the week of 26 to 30 September 2022, the University of Luxembourg welcomed young doctors who have started their specialisation studies in general medicine, neurology and medical oncology on...
Conference on smart grids first in a series on AI and its application
Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Organised by the Department of Engineering (DoE), the conference “Smart Grids: A New Energy Paradigm” was held on 14 October 2022.
4th Mathematical Careers Day offers insights into varied job options
Published on Tuesday, 25 October 2022
If you thought a Bachelor or a Master or even a PhD in Mathematics can only lead to a career in academia or teaching, think again.
PhD Defense: New Security Primitives and Better Performance through Parameter Trade-Offs
Event date: Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Place: Belval Campus – MNO - Room 1.0303
Speaker: EL ORCHE Fatima Ezzahra
Focus on medical education (Focus sur l’enseignement médical)
Event date: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Hour:  15:15 18:30
Place:  Simulation unit Maison du Savoir, Belval Campus | Auditorium entrance | 2nd floor | room 2.070
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gilbert Massard
Student Fair 2022
Event date: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Hour:  9:00 28-10 | 17:00
Place:  Campus de Belval 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
Student Fair 2022
Student Fair
Event date: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Hour:  9:00 28-10 | 17:00
Place:  Campus de Belval 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
Professor Jorge Iñiguez named 2022 American Physical Society Fellow
Published on Friday, 04 November 2022
Jorge Iñiguez, an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Luxembourg and a leading physicist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), has been elected fellow of the...
Active lipids enable intelligent swimming under nutrient limitation
Published on Monday, 07 November 2022
Biophysicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how microplankton – key photosynthetic organisms which produce nearly 50% of the oxygen we breathe – adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nu...
PhD Defense: Optoelectronic properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 single crystals with alkali postdeposition treatments
Event date: Monday, 07 November 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison du Savoir – MSA 3.220
Speaker: RAMIREZ SANCHEZ Omar
PhD Defense: Site-selective atmospheric pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition process for micrometric deposition - Simulation and experimental study
Event date: Tuesday, 08 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison du Savoir – F0.01A
Speaker: ACHARYA Kishor
PhD Defense: Modeling, simulation, and electrode optimization of flow-driven piezoelectric energy harvesters
Event date: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison des Sciences Humaines - Room MSH-E00-200
Speaker: SHANG Lan
INSIDE COLON event – Boosting cancer prevention
Published on Thursday, 10 November 2022

From 10 to 12 November (10.00-16.00)
at the Cactus Belle Etoile shopping mall

Inside Colon
Event date: Thursday, 10 November 2022
Hour:  8:00 12-11 | 18:00
Place:  La Belle Etoile Route d'Arlon 8050 Bertrange
Open Lecture on 3D metal printing
Event date: Friday, 11 November 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Campus Kirchberg - Room CK-BC-E01-A16
Speaker: Prof. Slawomir Kedziora
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its application in engineering
Event date: Friday, 18 November 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Campus Kirchberg, room D10E
Speaker: Guest speakers from King’s College London and Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
PhD Defense: Pyruvate dehydrogenase fuels a critical citrate pool that is essential for Th17 cell effector function
Event date: Monday, 21 November 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Luxembourg Institute of Health - House of BioHealth - Room Big conference room (ground floor, Rue Cloud)
Speaker: SORIANO BAGUET Leticia
ReShape: A cultural exploration of many dimensions
Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Abstract art baffles some, enchants others, but for over 100 years has been at the heart of modern culture and design. Paintings are full of shapes, curves and colours but what makes a piece of art...
Math conference highlights need to strengthen cross-area cooperation
Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Homotopy is used in many fields of science and the term stands, roughly speaking, for increased flexibility. The aim of the conference on "Interactions and Applications of Homotopical Algebra...
First AI&Art workshop hosts 24 students from lycée Hubert Clément
Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The first Esch2022 AI & Art ​​Workshop took place at the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg on November 8, 2022, from 2 pm to 4pm. The high school workshops are interactive programme...
PACE Young Scientist conference 2022
Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022
On 10-12 October 2022, the PACE Young Scientist conference 2022 organised by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered more than 60 researc...
Guided visit to the Vertigo Clinic at CHEM
Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Since October 1, our young medical specialists in training have started their clinical internships in the various hospitals and offices of general practitioners of the country. We currently ha...
Machine Learning Seminar meeting: A time-evolving digital twin tool for engineering dynamics applications
Event date: Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: David Wagg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield
Why would anyone listen to the sound of traffic (data)?
Published on Thursday, 24 November 2022
Most of the people that work or live in Belval will have no trouble coming up with a personal story related to traffic in or around the site from their day-to-day life – and many of these stories w...
PhD Defense: Multi-omics analysis of differentiating dopaminergic neurons identifies novel factors necessary for lineage specification
Event date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir - Room MSA 3.160
Speaker: GÓMEZ RAMOS Borja
1st Research Day - Doctoral programme in Engineering Sciences
Event date: Friday, 25 November 2022
Hour:  9:00 16:00
Place:  Kirchberg campus Salle Paul Feidert
PhD Defense: S100A8/A9 and miR-132-5p: two key players in the regulation of Ca2+ -dependent cytokine secretion in neutrophils
Event date: Friday, 25 November 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir - Room MSA 3.330
Speaker: ZHOU Yang
AIFA 2022 - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art
Event date: Monday, 28 November 2022
Hour:  9:00 30-11 | 18:00
PhD Defense: Development of residual stress during part build in metal additive manufacturing
Event date: Monday, 28 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Nombre – Room TBC
Speaker: MASHHOOD Muhammad
Department of Engineering celebrates its first Research Day
Published on Wednesday, 30 November 2022
On Friday 25 November 2022 the Department of Engineering celebrated its first Research Day of its Doctoral Programme in Engineering Sciences (DPES) on Campus Kirchberg. 
Machine Learning Seminar meeting: Concept-based explanations for convolutional neural networks
Event date: Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Andres Posada Moreno (Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University)
PhD Defense: Understanding the role of diet and microbiome in colorectal cancer
Event date: Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Hour:  15:00 17:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Savoir - Room MSA 3.410
Speaker: TSENKOVA Mina
I Have a Dream (IHAD) Conference 2022
Event date: Thursday, 01 December 2022
Hour:  9:00 02-12 | 18:00
Place:  Computational Creativity Hub, Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir (Admin entrance ground floor)
PhD Defense: Tree water use across landscape and time
Event date: Thursday, 01 December 2022
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belvaux - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Room F011B
Speaker: Ginevra FABIANI
The Sound of Data Feat. Max Cooper - Closing Event (Esch2022)
Event date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Hour:  20:00 0:00
Place:  Rockhal Club - Standing
Postmodern Thermodynamics School and Workshop
Event date: Monday, 05 December 2022
Hour:  8:00 09-12 | 17:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg - Limperstberg campus
Conference of Laurent Lafforgue (Fields Medal 2022)
Event date: Monday, 05 December 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir - Room 3.540
PhD Defense: Investigation of surface sputtering and ionization processes under non-reactive light ion irradiation: towards 4D SIMS imaging
Event date: Wednesday, 07 December 2022
Hour:  9:00 11:00
Place:  Belvaux - - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Room F001
Speaker: Alexander Dimitri OST
Les laissés-pour-compte du système de santé au Luxembourg
Event date: Friday, 09 December 2022
Hour:  18:30 20:30
Place:  Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, 3ème étage – salle 3.500
PhD Defense: Gut microbiota-mediated impacts of dietary fiber deprivation in gnotobiotic mice and healthy humans
Event date: Monday, 12 December 2022
Hour:  16:30 18:30
Place:  Esch-sur-Alzette - Luxembourg Institute of Health - House of BioHealth - Room Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Speaker: Erica GRANT
CO2REDRES Conference
Event date: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Hour:  9:00 16:00
Place:  Campus Limperstberg - Room BSC 003
The Pelican Grant awarded to six doctoral students
Published on Thursday, 15 December 2022
On the 21st November 2022, Marianne Meyers, Cristian Angeli, Mahsa Rezaeipour, Alexandros Pailas, Cyrielle Holuka and Pilar Maria Moreno Sanchez have been awarded the Pelican Grant from...
PhD Defense: Design of a three-stage process, photoluminescence and defect spectroscopy of Cu(InGa)S2
Event date: Thursday, 15 December 2022
Hour:  14:00 14:00
Place:  Belval Campus – Maison du Savoir - MSA - Room 3.010
Speaker: Damilola ADELEYE
PhD Defense: Energy Efficiency Optimization of Low-Grade Waste Heat Recovery Via Carbon Dioxide Rankine Cycle
Event date: Friday, 16 December 2022
Hour:  8:00 10:00
Place:  Kirchberg Campus - Block D - Room D 17
Speaker: Veronika WOLF
Singularity 42 - an afternoon with the artists
Event date: Friday, 16 December 2022
Hour:  12:00 19:00
Place:  AI&Art Pavilion @CCH - MSA Administration Building (ground floor)
PhD Defense: Elucidating the role of formate on cancer cell invasion
Event date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Hour:  14:00 16:00
Place:  Luxembourg Institute of Health - Edison - Room Pasteur
Speaker: Catherine DELBROUCK
PhD Defense: On the relation between stochastic thermodynamics and linear irreversible thermodynamics
Event date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Hour:  16:30 18:30
Place:  Limpertsberg Campus - Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BSC 3.04
Speaker: Danilo FORASTIERE
Study shows efficiency of solar cells directly linked to R&D efforts
Published on Tuesday, 03 January 2023
Professor Phillip Dale of the University of Luxembourg and Professor Mike Scarpulla of the University of Utah have discovered that researchers improve the efficiency of solar cells, the constituent...
Uni hosts final conference of EU project on sustainable construction
Published on Tuesday, 10 January 2023
After a long period of lockdown era meetings, the University of Luxembourg was happily able to host for the first time the guests of the CO2REDRES project (which aims to propose novel and sustainab...
Machine Learning Seminar meeting: How can we make tumour predictions when we do not understand everything?
Event date: Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Prof. Haralampos Hatzikirou (Faculty of Mathematics, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Faculty professors among winners at the FNR Awards 2022
Published on Thursday, 27 October 2022
Continuing the tradition of honouring researchers, professors, and scientific mediators from diverse disciplines, the 14th edition of the FNR Awards took place on the Belval campus of the Universit...
Prestigious Horizon Europe grant for Prof. Francesco Viti
Published on Tuesday, 17 January 2023
ACUMEN (Ai-aided deCision tool for seamless mUltiModal nEtwork and traffic managemeNt), a project Associate Prof. Francesco Viti of the Department of Engin...
Students at the service of other students
Published on Wednesday, 18 January 2023
The tutoring system set up between October and November 2022 by the BMED (Bachelor of Medicine) 2nd and 3rd year students is already a resounding success with the first-year students, who are thus...
Machine Learning Seminar meeting: Statistical methods in observational Cosmology
Event date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Dr. Philippe Baratta (Aix-Marseille University and CPPM, Marseille, France)
PhD Defense: Robust estimation in exponential families: from theory to practice
Event date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Hour:  10:00 12:00
Place:  Belval Campus – MNO – Room 1.040
Speaker: Juntong CHEN
Research project on circular economy receives FNR grant
Published on Thursday, 19 January 2023
CircuRement (promote resource recoverability by aligning product designs with end-of-life process chains), a project carried out within the Department of Engineering, has received the FNR JUMP g...
Workshops to improve doctor-patient communication
Published on Monday, 23 January 2023
Over semester 5 last year, the year 3 medical students at the University of Luxembourg had the opportunity to develop their doctor-patient communication skills, and to train on various profiles of...
A new approach for solving the dark energy mystery
Cosmic microwave background seen by Planck - European Space Agency
Published on Thursday, 26 January 2023
What is behind dark energy - and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg point the way to answering these open...
New Master programme in cybersecurity
Cyberus
Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2023
The University of Luxembourg together with the Université Bretagne Sud and Université Libre de Bruxelles have recently launched the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in cybersecurity (CYBERUS). This new...
Physics department workshop: community building & synergy development
Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2023
The annual workshop of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) was held on December 5th , 2022, at the Maison des Arts et des Etudiants on the Belval Campus. This event...
Experimental Mathematics Lab: A research experience for students
Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Giving students a real research experience and a very different learning environment from very early on in their studies -- that is the aim of the Experimental Mathematics Lab in the Departm...
New algorithm enables simulation of complex quantum systems
Quantum
Published on Monday, 30 January 2023
An international team of scientists from the University of Luxembourg, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at TU Berlin and Google has now successfully developed a ma...
(post)Modern Thermodynamics School and Workshop
Published on Wednesday, 01 February 2023

Organized by members of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and co-funded by the FNR and by the University of Luxembourg, the event (post)Modern Thermodynamics...

PhD Defense: Estimating terrestrial water storage variations from GNSS vertical displacements in the Island of Haiti
Event date: Thursday, 09 February 2023
Hour:  15:00 16:00
Place:  Maison du Savoir - MSA - Université du Luxembourg
Speaker: SAUVEUR Renaldo
Computational Modeling of Handwriting Movements
Luis Leiva
Event date: Thursday, 09 February 2023
Hour:  17:30 19:00
Place:  Belval campus MSA - Room 3.530
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Luis Leiva
Computational Modeling of Handwriting Movements
Published on Monday, 13 February 2023
On February 9th in Maison du Savoir in Belval, around 40 participants gathered together to listen to the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Luis Leiva on “Computational Modeling of Handwriting Movements”.
Luxembourg and Japanese Universities exchange about data science
Waseda
Published on Monday, 13 February 2023
The Luxembourg-Waseda conference on Modelling and Inference for Complex Data took place from January 23-25 at the University of Luxembourg in hybrid mode. Around 100 participants registered online...
A strong-as-steel collaboration between University and ArcelorMittal
Published on Monday, 13 February 2023
Building upon foundations forged more than 10 years ago, the University of Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal Foundation Luxembourg have agreed to extend their collaboration until 2025, through the Arcel...
PhD Defense: Digital health to enhance adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence in breast cancer
Event date: Friday, 17 February 2023
Hour:  9:30 10:30
Place:  Belval Campus – MSH – Black Box (+ MSH 204)
Speaker: GOETZINGER Catherine
Significant advances in nonequilibrium physics
Published on Monday, 20 February 2023
Phase transitions are ubiquitous in Nature and manifest in the sudden changes in the state of matter when the external conditions are varied. Cooling a piece of iron can turn it into a ferromagnet...
Soins de santé en mouvement : journée d’échanges entre professionnels
Soins en santé
Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2023
L’Université du Luxembourg a accueilli le 26 janvier 2023 une centaine de personnes à l’occasion de la première journée d’échanges organisée par le Ministère de la Santé sur le thème « Le...
Prof. Siebentritt receives honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
Susanne
Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Prof. Susanne Siebentritt from the Department of Physics at the University of Luxembourg has recently been awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. This distinction marks...
University launches its own Master in High Performance Computing
HPC
Published on Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Starting September 2023, the University of Luxembourg will offer a new innovative Master in High Performance Computing. This Master will train the next generation of HPC experts in Luxembourg and E...
PhD Defense: Assessment of mechanism of brain metastasis formation
Event date: Thursday, 23 February 2023
Hour:  13:00 14:00
Place:  Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) Department of Cancer Research (DoCR) - Room Mc Clintock 6A, rue Nicolas-Ernest Barblé
Speaker: SLIMANI Rédouane
Development of new skin models for dermatological research
Netskinmodels
Published on Friday, 24 February 2023
On 15-17 February 2023, the European Network for Skin Engineering and Modeling NETSKINMODELS was officially launched during the kick-off meeting, which took place in Bratislava. Gathering around 70...
Two scholarships available to international Master students
Scholarships
Published on Friday, 24 February 2023
Applications are now open for the Guillaume Dupaix International Scholarship and the Guardian Glass Scholarship, which aim to attract talented and deserving international students willing to pursue...
Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2022 in science
Published on Friday, 24 February 2023
The Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded 13 doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. Their research covers a wide...
PhD Defense: The use of Linked Data and Information Models for the End-of-Life Cycle of Built Assets
Event date: Friday, 24 February 2023
Hour:  11:30 12:30
Place:  Bâtiment Central (Kirchberg Campus) - Room Salle des Conseils 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
Speaker: AKBARIEH Arghavan
Math Day
Event date: Saturday, 25 February 2023
Hour:  9:30 17:00
Place:  MSA-Room 3.500 Belval Campus 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
PhD Defense: Spaceborne GNSS Reflectometry for Land Applications
Event date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Hour:  13:30 14:30
Place:  Maison du Nombre - MNO (Belval Campus) - Room Salle informatique – 33 6, avenue de la Fonte
Speaker: SETTI JÚNIOR Paulo de Tarso
Presentation of Engineers Without Borders Luxembourg
Event date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Hour:  17:00 18:00
Place:  Campus Kirchberg, room B02
Book awards for best first semester BINFO students
Published on Wednesday, 01 March 2023
Continuing with an established tradition, Prof. Franck Leprévost donated free copies of his books “How Big is Big? How Fast is Fast?: A Hands-On Tutorial on Mathematics of Computation” and “Order M...
Machine Learning Seminar meeting: Deep Learning Technologies for Natural Language Understanding
Event date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Online
Speaker: Dr. Joshgun Sirajzade (Faculty of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg)
Math Day 2023: great success for the second edition
Students Math Day
Published on Thursday, 02 March 2023
On 25 February 2023, the University of Luxembourg organised the second edition of the Math Day, a mathematical competition followed by a workshop for high-school students. The event gathered around...
PhD Defense: Observing unseen flowlines and their contribution to near stream endmembers in forested headwater catchments
Event date: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
Hour:  9:00 10:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Nombre – MNO - 1.030
Speaker: VAN ZWEEL Karl Nicolaus
Introduction to Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Methods, Tools, and Trends
Event date: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
Hour:  10:00 10:30
Place:  Fully virtual (contact Dr. Jakub Lengiewicz to register)
Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi
Round table: Gender Biases in Medicine
Bias medicine
Event date: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
Hour:  17:00 19:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 4.500 (4th floor) 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
PhD Defense: Connection Technologies for fast erection of Steel Structures for Buildings - FEOSBUILD
Event date: Thursday, 09 March 2023
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Place: Kirchberg Campus - Batiment Central – D17
Speaker: YOLAÇAN Taygun Firat
L’éthique des lieux du soin
Alain Loute
Event date: Friday, 10 March 2023
Hour:  9:00 11:00
Place:  Université du Luxembourg Campus Belval Maison du Savoir – Salle 3.050
Speaker: Professeur Alain Loute, Université Catholique de Louvain
Experts exchange about gender biases in Medicine
Bias Medicine
Published on Tuesday, 14 March 2023
To celebrate the international women’s day, the University of Luxembourg organised a round table to discuss gender biases in medicine practice. The event gathered experts from education, research,...
LuxemBERT - A Language Model for the Luxembourgish Language
Event date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Fully virtual (Contact Dr. Jakub Lengiewicz to register) 30min presentation + 30min discussion
Speaker: Cedric Lothritz (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust)
Researchers investigate structural mechanism of tumour suppressor
Tumours
Published on Thursday, 16 March 2023
The Turku Bioscience Centre and the University of Luxembourg have recently published an article in the renowned multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications on the structural mechanism of how on...
Uni.lu presents four new Bachelors in specialised nursing sciences
Bachelors en Sciences Infirmières - Spécialités
Published on Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Nursing specialisations at bachelor level will begin this autumn at the University of Luxembourg. Starting in mid-September 2023, the University will welcome students in four new Bachelors of Scien...
Exploring the Potentials and Pitfalls of GPT Models in Scientific Research
Event date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Fully virtual (contact Dr. Jakub Lengiewicz, jakub.lengiewicz@uni.lu, to register)
Speaker: Raul Ian Sosa (Faculty of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg)
Chercheurs à l’école 2023: researchers went back to school
Chercheurs
Published on Thursday, 23 March 2023
From 13 to 17 March 2023, 24 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 8th edition of "Chercheurs à l’école" organised by the Luxembourg...
PhD Defense: INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CIRCULARITY OF CONCRETE AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
Event date: Friday, 24 March 2023
Hour:  14:00 15:00
Place:  Belval Campus - Maison du Nombre – MNO - 1.030
Speaker: BOGOVICU Lorenc
Adversarial Examples: bugs, features, or just categorical learning in a small world?
ML seminar 29 march
Event date: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Hour:  10:00 11:00
Place:  Virtual
Speaker: Sahar Niknam (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg)
Inaugural lecture: Statistical Modelling and Data Science
Event date: Thursday, 20 April 2023
Hour:  17:30 20:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.330 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christophe Ley
Information session: Master in Information Systems Security Management
Master MISSM
Event date: Thursday, 27 April 2023
Hour:  17:30 19:00
Place:  Université du Luxembourg Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, room 3.010
Inaugural lecture: Statistical Mechanics of Active Matter
Etienne Fodor
Event date: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
Hour:  17:30 20:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.330
Speaker: Prof. Etienne Fodor
The COVAMINF Workshop
Event date: Monday, 15 May 2023
Hour:  9:00 16-05 | 19:00
Place:  Belval campus
ISED 2023: Social Engineering and Online Deception
Event date: Friday, 02 June 2023
Hour:  8:00 14:00
Place:  Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, Room 3.010
Data Science Summer School 2023
Data Science
Event date: Monday, 17 July 2023
Hour:  9:00 19-07 | 17:00
Place:  University of Luxembourg Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir