On 14 October 2016, the FNR (National Research Fund) presented the scientific community in Luxembourg with four prizes.
During this year’s FNR Awards ceremony last Friday, the sectors of scientific research and mediation received four separate awards of €5,000 in the categories of “Outstanding scientific publication”, “Outstanding doctoral thesis”, and “Outstanding promotion of science to the general public”.
The FNR Awards aim to give recognition to excellence in the scientific sector and reward both scientific researchers/mediators and institutions. Minister Marc Hansen, who contributed to the awards, highlighted the importance of making both the Luxembourgish and international public aware of research.
In the category of “Outstanding scientific publication”, FNR awarded two prizes. The first was given to Jérôme Paggetti and Etienne Moussay, two researchers at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) for their publication “Exosomes released by chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells induce the transition of stromal cells into cancer-associated fibroblasts” in the journal ‘Blood’. The second award was given to Matteo Polettini, a physicist at the University of Luxembourg, for his publication “Efficiency Statistics at All Times: Carnot Limit at Finite Power” in ‘Physical Review Letters’.
In the category of “Outstanding doctoral thesis”, Zhe Liu, a researcher at the University of Luxembourg, won for his thesis “Lightweight Public-Key Cryptology for Wireless Sensor Nodes.”
Finally, in the category “Outstanding promotion of science to the general public”, the award was given to a play called “Die Alchemisten von Dellhéicht”, which incorporates scientific experiments, by Astrid Maischak from “Déi kleng Fuerscher”, Gérard Wagener from the Lycée de garçons and Maryse Lallemand fromDellhéicht Primary School in Esch-sur-Alzette.
