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 Robin Hood!

USEFUL LINKS

LISER - https://www.liser.lu/
Eugenio Peluso's work - https://liser.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/eugenio-peluso
More about Jeremy Bentham - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bentham/

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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 governance. We did not forget about our usual pub quiz question!

USEFUL LINKS

University of Luxembourg - https://wwwen.uni.lu/
Anna-Lena's profile - https://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fhse/dsoc/people/anna_lena_hoegenauer
Luxembourgish Chamber of Deputies - https://www.chd.lu/en

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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 work at LIH. A lot more to come!

USEFUL LINKS

Dr. Sophie Pilleron on Twitter: @SPilleron
Luxembourg Institute of Health: https://www.lih.lu/en/

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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 not to be missed - Julian is a skilled science communicator so you can learn a lot of facts and listen to very interesting stories.

USEFUL LINKS

National Museum of Natural History (natur musée) - https://www.mnhn.lu/
Julian on Twitter: @JulianWittische
More about caribou in Canada: https://www.wcscanada.org/Wildlife/Caribou.aspx

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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 some time. If you are still unsure what large language models like ChatGPT are or simply want to think more of what the future of AI might hold, tune in to this journey with us!

USEFUL LINKS

Luxembourgish experts answer questions about AI - https://www.science.lu/fr/kunstliche-intelligenz/chatgpt-hype-oder-revolution-der-ki-fragen-experten
Trustworthy AI group at LIST - https://www.list.lu/en/environment/research-groups/group/trustworthy-ai/
The EU AI Act - https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/

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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 sexy bacteria. All in one episode!

USEFUL LINKS

Luxinnovation - https://www.luxinnovation.lu/
NIUM - https://www.nium.io/
Horizon Europe - https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe_en
Iban Ben-Barak - Do Not Lick This Book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34448625-do-not-lick-this-book

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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!

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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 important social actors. Pub quiz question is taken straight from the game!

USEFUL LINKS

LISER, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research -  https://www.liser.lu/
Carole Blond-Hanten's account on Twitter - https://twitter.com/CaroleB_H
Gender Game - http://www.gender-game.lu/
Women in the trade union - http://www.ogbl.lu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BrochureFemmes_EN.pdf

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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/Perovskite
Meet the scientist - Emmanuel Defay who also plays the bass! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4R-19n8H8s
FNR Outstanding Scientific Achievement Prize - cooling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFVjzMBhelc
Emmanuel demonstrating the nanofilm printed on glass (mobile phone screen use to make it possible to touch) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8VBNfIG4k

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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 - https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/podcast/blockchain
Narrative style CVs at FNR - https://www.fnr.lu/research-with-impact-fnr-highlight/taking-science-to-the-next-level-research-culture/

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