Luxembourg’s National Research Fund (FNR) has presented the 2019 FNR Awards, conferring four awards to researchers of the University of Luxembourg on 25 October 2019.

University researchers won awards in two categories: Outstanding Scientific Publication and Outstanding PhD Thesis. Each award is endowed with €5,000.

Outstanding Scientific Publications

In this category, the FNR recognised articles in peer-reviewed journals:

• Antonio Del Sol Mesa (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine) for the publication “Transcriptional synergy as an emergent property defining cell subpopulation identity enables population shift” in Nature Communications;
• Eva Lagunas, Shree Krishna Sharma, Sina Maleki, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust) for the publication „Resource Allocation for Cognitive Satellite Communications with Incumbent Terrestrial Networks“ in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Network.

 Outstanding PhD Thesis

 The FNR also honoured two researchers of the University of Luxembourg for distinguished PhD work of exceptional scientific quality and originality:

• Linda Wampach (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine) for “Colonization and succession of the human gastrointestinal microbiome in neonates and infants at high risk of metabolic disease in adulthood”;
• Riccardo Rao (Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication) for “Conservation Laws in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Stochastic Processes, Chemical Reaction Networks and Information Processing.”

The FNR awards aim to encourage communication between researchers, and to promote science-related activities aimed at the general public and the young. The University of Luxembourg is proud to be represented prominently among this year’s awardees.