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!

USEFUL LINKS

What makes data science different by Prof. Christophe Ley and Prof. Stéphane Bordas: https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/30235/1/BL17_final.pdf
Science Meets Sports - When Statistics Are More Than Numbers by Prof. Christophe Ley: https://books.google.lu/books/about/Science_Meets_Sports.html?id=yzbczQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Christophe Ley's publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fYZTyFEAAAAJ&hl=en
Cellule scientifique in Luxembourg: https://www.chd.lu/en/cellule-scientifique
Powerchair hockey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzhyxcjKPx8

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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 voice during the interview and had to work harder than ever to make this episode work. Hope you'll enjoy nevertheless!

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USEFUL LINKS

Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History - https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/
More about Dr. Inna Ganschow - https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/people/inna-ganschow
LURN - https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/data/lurn-luxembourg-ukrainian-researcher-network

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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 looking closely at - formate overflow.

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USEFUL LINKS

Johannes's lab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohannesMeiser
What his FNR ATTRACT fellowship was about: https://www.fnr.lu/projects/understanding-and-targeting-the-function-of-formate-overflow-in-cancer/
Formate overflow in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03777-w
Johannes in the FNR video series about FNR ATTRACT fellows: https://www.fnr.lu/research-with-impact-fnr-highlight/fnr-attract-fellows-johannes-meiser/

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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 overview of the current discussions revolving around green hydrogen and hydrogen economy in general.

USEFUL LINKS

Hydrogen at LIST TechDay 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfAKJCcioU
Harber-Bosch process - https://www.britannica.com/technology/Haber-Bosch-process
More about deuterium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium
More about tritium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

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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://cucolab.uni.lu/
Lingscape - Citizen Science: Take pictures of signs and share them with researchers - https://lingscape.uni.lu/
Schnëssen - Documenting Luxembourgish speech -  https://infolux.uni.lu/schnessen/

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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 Scientific Achievement - Rejko Krüger and Ibrahim Boussaad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Fpb9HyB4U
National Centre for Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD): https://www.parkinson.lu/

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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-perchoux/
The METHOOD project - https://liser.elsevierpure.com/en/projects/time-varying-residential-neighborhood-effects-on-cardiometabolic-
Marion Tharrey and her research - https://www.researchluxembourg.org/en/in-conversation-with-our-young-researchers-marion-tharrey/
15 minute city - https://www.15minutecity.com

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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 presented - we wonder how many of you actually knew the answer!

USEFUL LINKS

ESRIC - https://www.esric.lu/
ESRIC Start-up Support Programme - https://www.esric.lu/about-ssp
ESA / ESRIC Space Resources Challenge - https://www.researchluxembourg.org/en/space-resources-challenge-holds-in-luxembourg/
MOXIE experiment - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/moxie/
DART mission - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBuVbGkmBY
Artemis I mission - https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

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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 3D

Space Campus in Luxembourg

ESRIC call for start-ups

Thomas Cauvin's Textbook about Public History

C2DH celebrated 5 years of existence: Video

New brittle stars

Forum Z event: 7th September 2022

LISER survey on working and commuting in Luxembourg

D'Lëtzebuerger Land article by Jeff Simon 'All You Can Speak' featuring our host, Hanna Siemaszko

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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's work
Mäin Element podcast with Djamila
Djamila in the Women in Science FNR series

Computer vision explained

Spoiler alert - more about the answer to the pub quiz question

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