FNRS 2025 results: projects and grants awarded to the University of Liège

A total of 155 grants have been awarded to ULiège researchers, covering the entire research continuum: doctoral grants (FRIA, FRESH), projects (PDR, CDR, MIS) and scientific equipment (EQP). This support will make it possible to launch or consolidate work in a variety of fields, strengthen teams and infrastructures, and contribute to major scientific and societal advances.

Consult the 2025 results of FRESH and FRIA grants

Equipment (EQP)

• Simon LHOEST - Human-Wildlife Interactions at the Periphery of Niokolo-Koba National Park: An Innovative Socio-Ecological Investigation
• Renaud LOUIS - Evaluation of the use of rheological properties of induced sputum in asthma as a biomarker to improve disease management.
• Gabriel MAZZUCCHELLI - Spatial and Single Cell Proteomics Platform for Advanced Research and Exploration
• David STRIVAY - Chemistry of the Pharaohs

Research projects (PDR)

• Julie BAKKER - Neuroendocrine control of memory: kisspeptin-GnRH circuits in the brains of adult and aging mice
• Rudi CLOOTS - Multispectral electrochromic materials active in the visible and infrared for adaptive camouflage
• Pierre DELVENNE - Rethinking infrastructure ageing policies in the face of reinforced concrete degradation on dams and bridges in Belgium
• Vincent DENOËL - HAMMMER: Hidden Markov chains and mixing processes for the evaluation of extreme wind pressures on building facades and roofs.
• Tom DRUET - Use of pangenomes and advanced imputation and association methods to study the effect of sex chromosome structural variants on reproduction and meiosis in cattle
• Nathalie FAGEL - Hydroclimatic trends during the late Holocene based on lake sediment archives in central Chile
• Anaïs-Pasiphae GOREL - Unveiling Cryptic Timber Species in Central Africa: An Integrative Taxonomic Approach for Sustainable Forest Management
• François JOURET - Diagnostic performance of a non-invasive multi-omics approach to acute renal transplant rejection
• Cécile MATHYS - GO STRENGTHS! Dialogues between clinical practice and scientific knowledge around the Good Lives Model and young people in conflict with the law
• Frédéric OOMS - Entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty, from the perspective of effectuation theory and neuroscience
• Anne-Simone PARENT - Developmental vulnerability to endocrine disruptors: the influence of gender and critical windows of exposure
• Céline PAROTTE - Visions of advanced nuclear power in Europe: Investigating the (re)articulation of promises around small modular reactors in Finland, Belgium and the Czech Republic
• Veerle ROTS - The functional study of Middle Paleolithic lake sites and the impact of post-depositional processes. The case of Neumark-Nord 2
• Serge SCHMITZ - Prospective and transdisciplinary investigation of the slopes of European medium-sized towns
• Hans-Balder HAVENITH - Analysis and modeling of geological hazard succession involving massive landslide dams in seismically active mountain areas ("Geocascade")

Research credits (CDR)

• Frédéric BARON - NIK inhibitor as a treatment for graft-versus-host disease: preclinical research in a humanized mouse model
• Akeila BELLAHCÈNE - Resistance of colorectal cancer stem cells to chemotherapy: role of glycation stress
• Didier CATALDO - Targeting tumor-associated macrophages to overcome chemoresistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
• Etienne CAVALIER - Skeletal resistance to parathyroid hormone in chronic renal failure: role of circulating metabolites
• Bernard CHARLIER - Magmatic processes on Mercury and the BepiColombo space mission
• Benjamin G. DEWALS - Study of CD22+ virtual memory T lymphocytes in helminthic intestinal infections and bacterial coinfections.
• Dominique ENGEL - GABA release by parvalbumin interneurons in the absence of cytosolic deglutamylase carboxypeptidase 1
• Céline ESSER - Multifractal analysis of Gaussian and lacunar wavelet series
• Julie Christiane Alain Gh GERARD - Ruptures professionnelles, post-covid et reclassement: quels effets sur les trajectoires professionnelles et la rapport au travail des personnes licenciées en Belgique?
• Michael HERFS - Study of critical interactions between host DNA repair proteins and beta papillomaviruses in the initiation of UV-related non-melanocytic skin cancers
• Stéphanie HERKENNE - Analysis of the role of ceramide depletion in the antitumor activity of extracellular vesicles
• Aurélia HUBERT - Environmental evolution from the Tardiglacial to the Holocene and seismic hazard in the Gulf of Patras (Greece)
• Siamak KHAYYATI - Time-dependent queuing network analysis based on machine learning
• Caroline LE GOFF - Lipidomics for the assessment of exercise-induced inflammation: towards personalized medicine
• Allison LEDOUX - Valorization of Poupartia borbonica chemistry: novel alkylcyclohexenones against metastatic melanoma
• Laurent LOOSVELDT - Non-Gaussian observations and inference in stochastic environments
• Johan MICHAUX - Study of the impact of global changes on the bacterial microbiome of wild boar (Sus Scrofa) involving the emergence of health risks: innovative approach using JSDM modeling and metabarcoding.
• Jean-Christophe MONBALIU - Exploring the chemical space of electrophilic aminations with a priori computational intelligence
• Agnès NOËL - Role of a lipid transporter in lymphedema
• Bernard PEERS - Functional validation in zebrafish of genetic variants suspected of causing kidney disease in humans
• Olivier PEULEN - Myoferlin-mediated desmoplasia of pancreatic cancer: avenues for immune enhancement
• Géraldine PIEL - Lipid-polymer composition: impact on LNP protein corona and tumor biodistribution in MMTV-PyMT mouse models.
• Giorgia PURCARO - Rapid, simple and validated analytical method for the determination of mineral oil hydrocarbons
• Coraline RADERMECKER - Study of the function of pulmonary marginal neutrophils in the physiology of the pulmonary endothelium and their involvement in the propagation of pulmonary metastases
• Motiar RAHAMAN - Development of intercatalytic cascade assemblies for sustainable chemical synthesis
• Ghislain RAZE - Fast nonlinear oscillators: characterization of micro-electro-mechanical systems by experimental continuation
• Claire REMACLE - Characterization of transfer proteins involved in the maturation of proteins with [4Fe-4S] centers in the chloroplast of the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Clio RIBBENS - Deciphering the role of CEMIP (KIAA1199) in the three key pathophysiological processes of systemic scleroderma: vasculopathy, inflammation and fibrosis.
• Bernard ROGISTER - Targeting the subventricular zone and the stem-like tumor cells nested there to prevent glioblastoma recurrence.
• Davide RUFFONI - Relationships between the composition, structure and mechanical properties of mineralized cartilage in healthy, aged and injured conditions.
• Catherine SADZOT - Improvement of oncolytic virotherapy targeting glioblastoma through targeted inhibition of immune checkpoints via AAV.
• Ingrid STRUMAN - Understanding the mechanism governing PVR export to tumor exosomes in lung cancer
• Aurore THIBAUT - Unlocking consciousness: studying the synergistic effects of music and neuromodulation in the rehabilitation of patients with consciousness disorders
• Line VAN WERSCH - Glassmakers' crucibles in the early Middle Ages. An experimental and archaeometric approach to a craft transition
• Jacqueline VANDER AUWERA - What is the exact nature of ambient mantle wedge heterogeneity and its role in the composition of continental arc magmas?
• Benoît VANDERHEYDEN - Design and miniaturization of magnetic metamaterial devices with induced uniaxial anisotropy
• Alain VANDERPLASSCHEN - Study of neuroinvasion of the carp central nervous system by Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 and investigation of the effect of infection on carp behavior

Scientific impulse mandates (MIS)

• Grégory EHX - Deciphering the role of type I interferon signaling in persistent cells tolerant to acute myeloid leukemia treatments
• Anneline PINSON - Involvement of GnRH in alterations of neocortex development induced by exposure to endocrine disruptors
• Damien SLUYSMANS - Determination of forces generated by artificial molecular muscles at single-molecule scale