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Unravelling the Mysteries: Journey into the World of Forensic Science! Ready to embark on an extraordinary adventure into the captivating realm of forensic science and fingerprint analysis? Don't miss our latest podcast episode that delves into the secrets hidden within fingerprints! Join us as we explore the science, techniques, and challenges behind this remarkable field with the fingerprin...

We all know that the gut plays a way more important role in our health than we originally thought. But what if we could find a way to connect its health with the onset of for example Parkinson's disease? Our guest, Dr. Catherine Sedrani, tried to work with the LCSB's Gut-on-a-Chip model (the HuMiX) to check what the relationship between bacterial cells and enteric neurons was. But first...

Luxembourg is at the forefront of exploration and utilisation of space resources. This time we invited Lari Cujko, Start-up Support Lead at European Space Resources Innovations Centre (ESRIC) and Marek Wilgucki, the CEO of Four Point, the first incubated start-up, to tell us about the unique environment for start-ups in the field of space resources. There was also a chance to learn more about the...

Our guest Bruno Teheux knows that people are often scared of maths and he's found numerous ways to convince them that it can be real fun. Listen to the episode to find out for yourself! USEFUL LINKS Bruno's Webpage: http://math.uni.lu/teheux ReCreate project in Dubai: https://math.uni.lu/outreach/recreate/ The Simplicity of Complexity in Dubai: https://math.uni.lu/outreach/dubai/ The Sou...

Prof. Eugenio Peluso who leads the Department of Living Conditions at LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) started his research journey looking at inequality within a household. Then he expanded his horizon and this is exactly what he showed us in the episode - various projects looking at different types of inequality. Expect also a very peculiar pub quiz question involving Robi...

The elections are soon approaching so we decided to have a closer look at the research done in the field of political science. Our guest was Prof. Anna-Lena Hoegenauer from the University of Luxembourg who specialises in EU governance and looks at the role of national parliaments. Anna-Lena shared quite a few insights to the Luxembourgish politics and also some interesting overview of small state...

It's time to look at age-related differences in cancer outcomes, focusing especially on older adults. A complex topic that becomes a little less so thanks to our guest, Dr. Sophie Pilleron from Luxembourg Institute of Health. Sophie, who is the head of the ACADI (Ageing, Cancer and Disparities Research Unit) group, tells us about the challenges she hopes to face in the next 5 years of her wor...

It's not every day that you get a chance to go a little bit behind the scenes of a museum. This is what happened thanks to our discussion with Dr. Julian Wittische from the National Museum of Natural History. Julian, who is data analyst at the museum, told us about his specialisation - landscape ecology, but also focused a lot on biodiversity loss. Let us assure you that this is an episode no...

Artificial Intelligence is one of a few subjects discussed in our podcast that evolves at an extremely high pace. This in turn means that whenever you discuss it some of your points get quickly outdated. Nevertheless, the discussion we had with Dr. Alexandru-Adrian Tantar from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology is more than just scratching the surface and will remain valid for quite so...

You might say that 13 is an unlucky number, but for sure not for our episode - for the first time in the history of SciLux we got two guests at the same time - Stefano Pozzi Mucelli from Luxinnovation and Alberto Noronha from NIUM. Thanks to this special duo, we learnt both about Horizon Europe funding and starting a spin-off focusing on gut health. We even got especially thrilled to talk about se...

When we started the interview, we had no clue how much we'd learn ourselves! You can count on that if you listen to prof. Markus Ollert from Luxembourg Institute of Health talking about allergies and our immune system. The field of allergology is developing very fast and it's good to get a small glimpse at where we are now. Plus - you can count on a very relevant pub quiz question! Suppo...

If you visited the Researchers' Days, you might have had a chance to play it. If not, you definitely need to listen to this episode to get to know more about the Gender Game that our guest Carole Blond-Hanten from LISER is one of the creators of. Carole is a doer so expect a real kick of positive energy from this episode in which we also talked about social partners, trade unions and other im...

We've got a special treat for you this time - a researcher that is a specialist in nanotechnologies and studies a fascinating group of materials called perovskites, focusing on the piezo- and pyroelectric ones. It was a real pleasure to talk to Dr. Emmanuel Defay (LIST) and discover this world which was completely unknown to us. USEFUL LINKS What is a perovskite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

This episode was supposed to be "just" a discussion about blockchain, but became way more. Prof. Gilbert Fridgen from SnT (University of Luxembourg) took us on a journey through blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs, but also talked about research itself. A very relevant discussion! USEFUL LINKS SnT - https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt I Can't Sleep Podcast that I mention in the beginning - h...

For the second episode of this year and eighth episode of this season we had a pleasure to talk to prof. Christophe Ley from the University of Luxembourg. Christoph told us a lot about statistics and how important it is in our lives - sport lives included. We also looked how closely related statistics and data science are. Could it be that data science is just statistics 2.0? Listen to find out! U...

The seventh episode of this season was a chance to talk to Dr. Inna Ganschow from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at the University of Luxembourg. Inna told us how the Luxembourg Ukrainian Researcher Network came to be, as well as familiarised us with her latest research regarding Soviet forced labourers and prisoners of war. Last but not least, your host lost her...

How to figure out what nutrients to limit and which ones to increase when it comes to tumour cells? If you ever wondered that, you should definitely listen to the latest episode of SciLux where we talk about cancer cell metabolism with Dr. Johannes Meiser from LIH ( Luxembourg Institute of Health ). Johannes updates us about latest research in his field together with an explanation of what he is l...

In the latest episode of our podcast we had a chance to (finally) talk to Dr. Robin White about hydrogen research. Robin is Core Technologies Leader H2 & CO2 in the Materials Research and Technology (MRT) Department at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and in the podcast he explained all the current challenges of producing and storing hydrogen. You can also count on an interesting...

Did you know we are witnessing the emergence of a new written standard language right in the middle of Europe? Yes, we obviously mean Luxembourgish! Listen to the latest episode of SciLux where we talk to Christoph Purschke from the University of Luxembourg about computational linguistics and Luxembourgish. USEFUL LINKS CuCo Lab - A transversal research lab for Cultural Data Science - https://cuco...

This time we had a closer look at the current research in the field of Parkinson's disease and the daily work of a cellular biologist - Ibrahim Boussaad from the Luxembourg Centre of Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg. We found time to notice the beauty of nature, have a good laugh and get amazed by neurons. What an episode! USEFUL LINKS FNR Awards 2022 - Outstanding Scientif...

This time we talked to Dr. Camille Perchoux from Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) about her work regarding urban health and stress. Camille also surprised us with her pub quiz question! USEFUL LINKS LISER - https://www.liser.lu Dr. Camille Perchoux talks to Research Luxembourg - https://www.researchluxembourg.org/en/in-conversation-with-our-young-researchers-dr-camille-perch...

In this new season of our podcast we sat down with Dr. Kathryn Hadler, the Director of the European Space Resources Innovation Center (ESRIC). Kathryn told us obviously a lot about space resources and getting them on the Moon, but we also shortly discussed the possibilities of the asteroids, the Mars and even space debris. We did not forget to ask Kathryn for a pub quiz question which she gladly p...

We're on a short holiday, but before we left, we recorded an episode with the latest developments in science and technology in Luxembourg. This means we did not talk to any new researcher, just reminded you of what had been happening in our country and what were the events you should keep in mind in the next weeks. USEFUL LINKS Eurostat: government budget allocations for R&D Luxembourg in...

In this episode we had a chance to finally catch up with Assisstant Professor Djamila Aouada who heads the Computer Vision team at SnT (University of Luxembourg). We talked about her specialisation, about deep learning and deep fakes, different applications of computer vision and Djamila also prepared a very surprising pub quiz question for our listeners. USEFUL LINKS FNR article about Djamila&apo...

This time SciLux focused on sport science in a discussion with Dr. Thorben Hülsdünker from LUNEX University . Thorben researches the influence of brain on the performance of top-level athletes, focusing on visuomotor performance and stroboscopic training. USEFUL LINKS About Dr. Thorben Hülsdünker Better sport performance through visual training - video Mr Science Video - How to improve reaction ti...