In conversation with our young researchers
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“In Conversation With Our Young Researchers” brings you stories from our national and international researchers.
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09.06.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Gilles Evrard Essuman
Gilles Evrard Essuman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Luxembourg…. -
23.05.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Julio Garbers
Julio Garbers is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the University of Luxembourg. As part of the Doctoral… -
21.04.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Alessandro Tugnetti
Richa Maheshwari is conducting her PhD at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), jointly with Ghent University, Belgium. Her… -
07.04.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Nina Buntić
Nina Buntić is a first-year PhD student at the University of Luxembourg. Her PhD project deals with shared underlying mechanisms… -
24.03.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Stanislav Gubenko
Stanislav Gubenko is a PhD candidate at the the Department of Law of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance… -
10.03.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Richa Maheshwari
Richa Maheshwari is conducting her PhD at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), jointly with Ghent University, Belgium. Her… -
03.03.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Karan Singhal
How to understand the lack of diversity in the academic field of Economics? How can we better comprehend the underrepresentation… -
24.02.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Aida Horaniet Ibañez
Aida Horaniet Ibañez is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) of the University of… -
17.02.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Ann Kiefer
Ann Kiefer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre of Educational Testing (LUCET) of the University of Luxembourg. Her projects… -
10.02.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Marko Sikirić
How can space resources help sustain life for longer periods of time outside of Earth? Marko Sikirić is a PhD candidate at… -
03.02.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Morgan Raux
Morgan Raux is a research scientist at the department of Economics and Management at the University of Luxembourg. His research… -
27.01.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Ariane Gordan
Ariane Gordan is a PhD candidate at the University of Luxembourg and affiliated to the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research… -
20.01.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Neera Chakrapani
How can we better understand red meat allergy and the mechanism behind the delayed appearance of allergic symptoms? Neera Chakrapani… -
06.01.2023
In conversation with our young researchers: Valentin Emslander
What are successful Luxembourg primary schools doing to support their pupils? What can other schools learn from them? Valentin Emslander… -
16.12.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Bikey Seranilla
Is there any way to improve the quality of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty? Bonn Kleiford ‘Bikey’ Seranilla is a PhD… -
09.12.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Vishnu Pullangatil
Why decarbonising power and producing hydrogen can help deliver a more sustainable future? Vishnu Pullangatil is a PhD candidate at… -
02.12.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Agnieszka Demczuk
How can we improve allergen-specific immunotherapy to better respond to allergic diseases? Agnieszka Demczuk is a PhD candidate in the… -
18.11.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Alexandre Mortelette
How does civil society shape the framework for the promotion and protection of human rights? Alexandre Mortelette is a PhD… -
11.11.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Thang Xuan Vu
How can we design greener telecommunications systems while ensuring greater efficiency? Thang Xuan Vu is a research scientist at the… -
04.11.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Charlotte Stoffels
How can we better understand potential negative impacts of PFAS on our health? Charlotte Stoffels is a PhD candidate in… -
28.10.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Luca Cressa
How much energy batteries can store and output, how much power they can provide or the number of times they… -
21.10.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Magretta Adiamah
How RNA modifications are involved in cancer-related processes and how they affect tumour behaviour? Magretta Adiamah is a postdoctoral fellow… -
14.10.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Marion Tharrey
How does one utilize methods from epidemiology, public health intervention research and health geography to study the economic, social, environmental… -
30.09.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Johannes Laur
How can we mitigate or prevent the loss of radio communication during spacecrafts atmospheric re-entries? Joannes Sebastian Laur is a… -
23.09.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Giulia D’Uonnolo
How is the chemokine receptor CXCR3 involved in cancer development and what are the molecular mechanisms underlying its activity? Giulia… -
15.09.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Koku Gnatuloma Nonoa
How to bridge the gap between theory and practice in theatre and performing arts? Dr. Koku Gnatuloma Nonoa is a… -
09.09.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Bianca Brandus
How to develop novel therapeutics fighting a very dangerous respiratory bacterium, resistant to antibiotics so sometimes impossible to treat? It… -
22.07.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Max Bondarchenko
How DNA repair can contribute to the fight against cancer? Max Bondarchenko, a PhD researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of… -
15.07.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Marija Marić
How do political and economic conditions shape the material world we live in? Marija Marić is an architect and researcher,… -
08.07.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Narcisse Cha’ngom
How skill-biased emigration affects the development of sending countries? And how does it affect neighbouring regions? Narcisse Cha’ngom is a… -
27.06.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Anđela Mićanović
How and why has the European Union (un)intentionally contributed to the collapse of Europeanisation and to the democratic backsliding in… -
17.06.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Jordanne Edwards
How do society, politics, and history contribute to the creation and continuation of individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma? How do NGOs… -
10.06.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Aldo Arranz-Lopez
How vulnerable population groups use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for their mobility habits? And how does it affect their… -
03.06.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Giuseppe Montalbano
Is the housing market an inequality generator? How housing policies and housing markets interact with employment and pension policies to… -
27.05.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Helena Korjonen
What does sustainability mean when it comes to food? What is needed for a more sustainable and resilient food system?… -
20.05.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Katarzyna Bobrowicz
How do children solve important problems? How do they select relevant information? Katarzyna Bobrowicz is a post-doctoral researcher at the… -
13.05.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Mike Zapp
How does university knowledge shape globalisation by producing various sociopolitical conceptions beyond the nation-state? Mike Zapp is part of the… -
06.05.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Angelica Fernandez
What are the challenges faced by society in a digitalized environment? And how that potentially impacts our rights? Angelica Fernandez,… -
29.04.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Ramin Forghani
The continuing spread of countries and companies having access to low Earth orbit makes it necessary for diplomacy to cover… -
22.04.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Giorgia Menta
How can parental circumstances shape children’s cognitive and non-cognitive abilities? What drives gender differences in labour market outcomes and time… -
15.04.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Bowen Liu
How to ensure secure channels and services for Internet of things (IoT)? And how to protect and use data created… -
25.03.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Cyrielle Holuka
How does socio-economic status shape the overall metabolic health status of an individual? Cyrielle Holuka is a PhD student in… -
18.03.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Takumi Kobayashi
How the three immune effectors involved in the tumor’s killing process are working? Takumi Kobayashi, a postdoctoral researcher at the… -
11.03.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Abir Elbéji
How to better follow COVID-19-related symptoms thanks to new digital biomarkers and tools and how to improve Long Covid patients’… -
04.03.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Arianna Rossi
How pervasive are manipulative designs in online services? What harms do they cause? How might we recognize and fight them?… -
20.01.2022
In conversation with our young researchers: Natalia Zdanowska
How do spatial inequalities persist through time? How does history reproduce divisions in space in Europe? Natalia Zdanowska is a… -
17.12.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Adnan Imeri
How can blockchain technology be used to improve trust in logistics and transport processes? Adnan Imeri completed his PhD in… -
26.11.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Erica Grant
How does dietary fibre intake affect the human gut microbiome? How can diet modulation be used as a translational approach… -
19.11.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Rafieh Mosaheb
The Covid-19 pandemic has made electronic voting options a reality. It seems like a logical step considering the many other… -
15.11.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Shuai Chen
How to maintain high social cohesion and trust in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society? Shuai Chen, a Researcher in Economics… -
08.11.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Youri Nouchokgwe
The search for an appropriate option to the almost exclusively used vapour compression system is a crucial technological challenge in… -
29.10.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Théo Antunes
The rise of artificial intelligence in our societies has gained momentum in recent years, to the extent that its use… -
22.10.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Takouhie Mgrditchian
Unfortunately, metastatic breast cancer cannot be cured but can only be treated to extend patient’s life. Therefore, a better understanding… -
15.10.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Matthew Flood
How can technological solutions provide clinicians and patients with effective treatment outcomes for orthopaedic injuries and diseases? What role can… -
08.10.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Pilar Maria Moreno Sanchez
How studying the interactions of tumor cells with tumor microenvironment can help immunotherapy in glioblastoma patients? Pilar Maria Moreno Sanchez… -
27.09.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Huizhu Sun
How can research help Luxembourg to maintain its international competitive position as a financial marketplace? Huizhu Sun is a Junior Research &… -
17.09.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Christopher Morse
In an age when the museum experience is no longer tethered to physical spaces, how might we design for memorable… -
10.09.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Chiara Amorino
Why do we need stochastic differential equations? Where are they used? Dr Chiara Amorino is a PostDoc researcher in the… -
03.09.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Daniele Proverbio
Why do certain systems suddenly start functioning in unpredictable and drastically different ways? Daniele Proverbio is a doctoral researcher at… -
27.08.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr. Adrian Nieto Castro
How can causal evidence help close existing societal inequalities and address current socio-demographic problems? Dr. Adrian Nieto Castro is a postdoc… -
20.08.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr. Camille Perchoux
How much do urban environments have an impact on our active and healthy behaviours, chronic diseases and healthy ageing? Dr…. -
13.08.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr. Soumyabrata Ghosh
Biomedical research is rapidly transforming into a data driven field of study. As a consequence, proper data infrastructure, management, and… -
30.07.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Damien Negre
One of the main problems when it comes to European Consumer Law is its scope of application. To know whether… -
23.07.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Sofie Waltl
How much does the housing market affect the economy? How to measure aggregate house price movements? Are measurement tools fit… -
16.07.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Susheel Bhanu Busi
How does microbial life survive in harsh ecosystems like glacier-fed streams? What functions do biodiversity and ecosystem provided by these… -
09.07.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Martín Fernández Sánchez
What are the long-term consequences of migration for the hosting and sending communities? How cultural norms are conveyed though migration?… -
02.07.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Sunday Ojochegbe Okutachi
In 2020, cancer was the second leading cause of death in the world. We expect the global cancer burden to… -
18.06.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Adelene Lai
PhD candidate Adelene Lai at Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is an environmental cheminformatician who develops workflows, algorithms, and… -
04.06.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Rutuja Bhusari
Gas sensors are an important part of our everyday lives to identify potentially dangerous gases emitted by all kinds of common furniture… -
28.05.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Lorella Viola
The impact of digital on humanities research is far-reaching. On top of changing the way many researchers conduct their work,… -
21.05.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Pauline Mencke
Neurodegenerative diseases and cancer affect millions of people worldwide. Translational neuroscientist Pauline Mencke has chosen Luxembourg to study a gene that is involved… -
14.05.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Alexander Steen
The ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the fact that no scientist can be an expert in every field means AI… -
06.05.2021
In conversation with our young researchers: Dr Jennifer Dusdal
Home to nearly 2,000 public researchers, Luxembourg has created a thriving research and innovation scene, fostering collaboration. When starting a…