Every year, the Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) awards grants to scientists from the universities of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, enabling them to devote themselves to their scientific research. Among the grants awarded this year, 119 went to ULiège scientists.
Congratulations to them!
The FRS-FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) is a non-profit foundation whose aim is to promote scientific research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation by granting subsidies to scientists to enable them to devote themselves to their research, and to institutions to enable them to equip or operate research units. For almost a century, the FNRS has contributed to the development of basic research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation through its policy of encouraging scientific excellence and supporting researchers at different stages of their careers.
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| CARRÉ Camille | Study of the MafB Transcription Factor in the Regulation of Stress-Induced Functional Adaptation of Resident Alveolar Macrophages. |
| CRONIN Lukas | Modulation neuroestrogénique du circuit de contrôle du comportement sexuel mâle – Analyse de la connexion BST-MPOA |
| DARCIS Jean-Christophe | ÉvolutioNeuroestrogenic Modulation of the Male Sexual Behavior Control Circuit – Analysis of the BST-MPOA Connection |
| DÁVILA LLAMAS Gerardo Oscar | An Oral History of Literary Reading in Spain During the Franco Dictatorship |
| DE LANÈVE Clément | Development of joint interpretation methods for time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography and continuous passive seismic monitoring to study groundwater dynamics |
| DETERME Marie | The Pisot Conjecture for Substitutions Derived from Alternating Real-Base Number Systems |
| DUMEZ Sacha | Improvement of oncolytic virotherapy targeting glioblastoma through targeted inhibition of immune checkpoints using an AAV. |
| GASPARELLO Aurora | Preclinical Manifestations of Parkinson's Disease: Locus coeruleus, Sleep, Genetics, and Cognition |
| GOETHALS Quinten | Grammaticus or agrammatos? A diachronic and sociolinguistic perspective on code-switching and lexical borrowing in Latin grammatical texts |
| GOREUX Théo | Unraveling the Dynamic Landscape of Splicing-Related RNA-Binding Proteins (RBPs) in Ewing Sarcoma at the Single-Molecule Level |
| HENRARD Amélie | Targeting ovarian cancer by combining endocrine therapies and immunotherapies. |
| HERBET Coralie | Study of the Influence of Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors on Energy Balance Regulation |
| HOFMANN Elisa | Reuse of Concrete Structural Elements: Socio-technical Challenges and Decision-Making Processes Toward Circular Construction |
| JOSSE Tyron | Reframing Lymph Nodes as Active Niches for Immune Biomarkers in Cervical Cancer |
| LEBOUTTE Quentin | When the Rule Is Law: An Analysis of the Interactions Between the Benedictine Rule and Public Institutions Within the Abbatial Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy (14th–16th Centuries) |
| LI Shu | Highlighting whitefly–virus interactions that enable viral replication using advanced sequencing and proximity labeling approaches |
| MAFFETTONE Francesca | An Inquiry into the Truth of Blind Judgments in Franz Brentano's Philosophy of Evidence. |
| MURAILLE Julien | Drawing in the Work of Gérard de Lairesse (1640–1711) and in His Studio: Forms and Practices, a Comparison with the Artist’s Theoretical Treatises and Their Reception |
| PANNEELS Gaëlle | Time and Cognition: Effects of Internal Attention Orientation on Duration Estimation. |
| PIETTE Endymion | Bivariate Multifractal Analysis and Self-Similarity Measures |
| REMACLE Emma | Targeted brain neuromodulation and advanced neurophysiological paradigms to improve the treatment and diagnosis of disorders of consciousness. |
| RENIER Eva | Navigating Between a Hearing and a Deaf World: An Anthropology of Childhood Based on Sound in French-Speaking Belgium. |
| ROCCHI Riccardo | Walking with the Iguanodons: Biomechanical Modeling of the Locomotor Behavior of a Large Herbivorous Dinosaur |
| SEKE David | Between Theory and Practice: A Study of Boundary Work and the Conditions Enabling Interdisciplinarity within One Health |
| SERRATI Francesco | Incense Burning in Egypt: Research on the Magical and Therapeutic Uses of Smoke from the Pharaonic Era to the Fatimid Period |
| TECCHIO Alessandro | Development of bispecific nanoprobes for the visualization of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) using non-invasive PET imaging |
| VAN DER HEYDE Simon | Mapping Thermal Susceptibility Using Low-Temperature Scanning Laser Microscopy |
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| ARAGÓN DAUD Agustina | Was My Mind Empty? Decoding Mental Emptiness Through Brain Imaging and Machine Learning |
| BALTHASART Elisa | No Images, but Memories: Exploring the Nature of Representations in Episodic Memory Among Aphantasic Subjects |
| BOURDOUX Jessica | The Inherited Nature of the Combination of Singing and Recitation in the Agni??oma: A Comparison of the Vedic Ritual System with the Avestan Long Liturgy |
| BUSTO Théophile | Managing Wildlife Between Autonomy and Control: An Ethnography of Forest Stakeholders in the Semois Valley National Park. |
| CHISTIAKOVA Daria | Split Intransitivity in the Pamir-Hindu Kush Languages: A Typological and Areal Study |
| DELAIVE Célia | Creating NOON states with ultracold atoms using time crystals |
| EVRARD Florence | The Role of Hypothalamic Neurons Expressing Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in Sexual and Aggressive Behaviors in Rodents of Both Sexes |
| FAVARO Alexia | Mapping Microclimates in Temperate Forests Through Regular Acquisition of Remote Sensing Data Using Drones Equipped with LiDAR Sensors |
| FLAS Camille | Prevention of resistance to hormone therapy through pulsed estrogen therapy, which increases the sensitivity of breast cancers to hormone therapy. |
| FRENAY Sacha | Decarbonization: Bridging the Gap Between the Old and the New—Realigning Heavy Industry with Carbon Capture and Storage |
| HEAL Tobias | Acies Ferri: An Archaeological and Archaeometric Study of Swords and Scramasaxes from the 5th to the 7th Centuries Between the Seine and the Rhine |
| JAGER Manon Marie | An Analysis of the Role of Monocytes in the Relationship Between Gammaherpesviruses and Multiple Sclerosis |
| KATIKAKIS Félix | The “Liège Group” in the French-speaking Belgian poetry scene of the 1970s: A socio-aesthetic overview |
| LAMBERT Thelma | Regularity of Random Wavelet Series and the p-Exposantts |
| LATOUR Justin | Imaging and Characterization of Forming Exoplanets in Their Native Environments |
| LEPARC Louise | Targeted activation of the cGAS-STING pathway and modulation of autophagy to optimize the efficacy of therapies for the treatment of glioblastoma. |
| LEWIN Sacha | Deep Generative Models in Infinite Dimensions for Spatiotemporal Data |
| LIEGEOIS-PILLET D'AMERVAL Liselotte | A Study of the Concept of “religio” in Late Republican Public Political Discourse (63–56 BCE) |
| LOURAS Mélanie | An Integrated Neurobiological Model of Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms: A Multilevel Analysis Combining Functional Imaging, Neurochemical Markers, and Neuromodulation |
| MIRA TORRES Lionel | The Unsung Heroes of Evangelization: Material Exchanges Between Paraguay and Europe (17th–18th Centuries) |
| MORENO-MENDEZ Lisa | Matilde Muñoz (1895-1954) : point de tension, point d’observation |
| OSKERA Léa | To determine the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on the development of the somatosensory cortex |
| PERRIN Loïc | Urban Governance Through Art? Local Sociocultural and Culturo-Social Policies Aimed at Working-Class Communities in the French Community |
| PHILIPPART Julien | Modeling the Effect of Pasture Management Techniques on Grassland Stability in the Context of Climate Change. |
| PINTO COELHO Tiago | Impact of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Infusion on Renal Ischemic Preconditioning in Two Murine Models of Kidney Transplantation |
| REYSKENS Coralie | Study of the role of EIF2S3 in the development of the cerebral cortex under physiological and pathological conditions. |
| ROMPEN Margaux | The Influence of Psychological Stress on Influenza-Induced Morbidity and Pulmonary Repair Responses |
| ROSA Arianna | The Consolation Letters of Saint Jerome, Heirs to Classical Latin Epistolary Tradition: A Textometric and Linguistic Study |
| SPITS Alexandre | Experimental Continuation for Nonlinear Structures Using Control Techniques |
| TERPINI Marianthi | Understanding the Structure and Characteristics of Future Self-Concepts |
| THEUNISSEN Kelly | Hide, move, or both to survive? Micro-refuges and plant dispersal during climate change in an alpine environment. |
| TIMMERMANS Guillaume | Current and Future Impacts of Supraglacial Hydrology on the Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet Using the Regional Atmospheric Model (MAR) |
| VRIELYNCK Ann-Sophie | The Case of the “be-” Prefix in Dutch: A Synchronic and Diachronic, Multi-methodological Approach to Identifying Alternation Patterns |
| ZIMBILE Célia | The Legal Upheavals Caused by Multiparty Labor Relations in the Context of Bipartite Employment Contracts |
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| BENYEKHLEF Hassan | Aspirations, Inequalities, and Ambivalent Attitudes Toward School: The Educational Paths of Descendants of Moroccan Immigrants in French-Speaking Belgium |
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| CLOSE Romann | The Role of RHOBTB2 in the Normal and Pathological Development of the Cerebral Cortex. |
| GERON Chloé | The Role of Quantitative MRI in the Preclinical Detection of Degenerative Lesions Associated with Frontotemporal Dementia in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. |
| LENOM Margot | Reprogramming the stromal microenvironment through radionuclide therapy targeting FAP to induce sensitivity to immunotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. |
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Title |
| SEPULCHRE Edith | Résoudre les syndromes de prédisposition au cancer non élucidés chez l’enfant et le jeune adulte grâce au séquençage à lecture longue |
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| 1st renewal | |
| DANDOY Pierre | Modulating translational fidelity to reprogram tumor immunogenicity and sensitize pancreatic adenocarcinoma to immunotherapy |
| HOUBIERS Margaux | A Detailed Assessment of Long-Term Survivors of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation |
| WAGNER Lea | Interactions Between Circadian Rhythms, Sleep Homeostasis, and Energy Metabolism: A Genetic Association Study |
| 2nd renewal | |
| PLUMACKER Florence | Early tau protein aggregation depends on age-related changes in the density of coeruleo-cortical synapses. |
| VERVIER Julie | An Experimental Approach to the Pathophysiology of Adenomyosis |
| 3rd renewal | |
| VRANCKEN Louise | A Study of the Impact of MYC Oncogene Inhibition in Multiple Myeloma. |
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| 1st renewal | |
| LOMMERS Emilie | The Contribution of 7-Tesla Quantitative MRI to the Study of Cortical Pathology in Multiple Sclerosis: Validation with Histology. |
| 2nd renewal | |
| ESSER Nathalie | Exploring Inflammatory and Fibrinolytic Pathways in Type 2 Diabetes |
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Title |
| ABAD JORDA Laia | A New Mitochondria–Sphingolipid Pathway Regulating the Antitumor Activity of Extracellular Vesicles |
| BAKEBEK Ludovic | Developing the Urban Periphery Along Cameroon's Coast: The Case of the Municipality of Dibamba |
| CHAMPETIER Pierre | Dynamics of Sleep Spindles and Imaging of the Locus Coeruleus Across the Lifespan and in Parkinson's Disease |
| CHEVALIER Séverine | Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity and the Functioning of the Benthic Ecosystem |
| DE WEERDT Joëlle | Assessing the Resilience of Humpback Whales to Climate Change Through Supplemental Feeding and Monitoring of Their Body Condition |
| DEVILLERS Alisee | Toward a Social History of Art: The Appropriation of the Elite’s Visual Culture by the Theban Sub-Elite in Ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1077 BCE). |
| DUPUIS Chloé | Regional Assessment of Forest Disturbances and Regeneration Following Industrial and Artisanal Timber Harvesting in Central Africa |
| GODERNIAUX Alexandre | Polemography: Discourses on War and Peace in the Age of Civil Conflict (France, 1530–1630) |
| GOOSSENS Elias | Soil compaction resulting from nature management as a threat to biodiversity in highly diverse semi-natural grasslands. |
| JOUBERT Emil | Reading the Coffins, Commemorating the Papyri: Unity and Interactions in Egyptian Funerary Ensembles (11th–9th centuries BCE) |
| KONIG Lorenzo | Vortex masks made of metasurfaces for high-contrast imaging with ELT/PCS |
| LACOUE-LABARTHE Alice | Relational Urban Poetics: New Cartographies of European Memory by Jewish Women Writers |
| LANDOLFI Martina | The Ancient Prose Book: A Study of the Physical Characteristics and Virtual Reconstruction of Greek Prose Scrolls from the 1st to the 2nd Century A.D. |
| MERLINI Anita | Reflecting on the Transition from Iconology to Bildwissenschaft: Image Theory in the German-Speaking World (1933–1983) |
| MERTENS Audrey | From Design to Use: User Decisions and the Long-Term Sustainability of Housing |
| MOGHIMYFIROOZABAD Shayan | The interaction during the embryonic stage between migrating cortical interneurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells shapes their future identity and fate in the adult brain. |
| NAHER Sharmin | Ubiquitin-Dependent Regulation of Cortical Interneuron Migration by NEDD4-2 |
| NOEL Gregoire | SyrphidAI - Leveraging artificial intelligence, citizen science, and entomological collections to monitor hoverflies |
| PRATALI MAFFEI Dalia | Modeling Dialectal Mixing in Ancient Greek: Between Spoken Language and Poetry |
| PRIYADARSHINI Priyanka | Structure–function analysis of ribosome biogenesis in trypanosomatid parasites |
| RASETTO Natali | Evolutionary adaptation of mechanotransduction programs controlling the migration of cortical interneurons across species |
| ROTHEUDT Nicolas | Strategies for Maximizing the Spatial Extent and High-Field Performance of Multicomponent Superconducting Magnetic Screens for Next-Generation Rotating Machines |
| VANDEGHEN Renaud | Improvements to Video-Text Model Pre-training. |
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Title |
| LEJEUNE Nicolas | Latent cognitive abilities associated with recovery and early prognosis in coma and acute disorders of consciousness |
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| BULDGEN Gaël | Stellar evolution models based on data from inverse asteroseismology |
| CARLIG Nathan | “Ex libris meis”: A Study of the Development, Content, and Functions of Libraries in Byzantine Egypt and the Early Arab Period (3rd/4th–8th Centuries) |
| CORNET Luc | Exploring the origins of thylakoid membranes: combining targeted cyanobacterial culture, transcriptomics, ancestral genome inference, and flux balance analysis under peri-GOE conditions. |
| KOLEY Soumen | Quantification and Cancellation of Uncertainty Associated with Geophysical Newtonian Noise in Realistic Geological Environments for Gravitational Wave Detectors. |
| KÜHN Norma | From Vision to Action: Dendritic Computations in the Superior Colliculus and Their Behavioral Implications |
| LEBOEUF Luc | Who Is the Expert? The Role of Expertise in the Development of International Agreements on Migration Between the EU and Third Countries |
| MACQ Hadrien * | Sister Cities: Urban Governance Through Digital Twin Cities |
| SABATEL Catherine | Functional characterization of pulmonary regulatory macrophages in acute and chronic inflammatory lung diseases for therapeutic purposes. |
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| DELILLE Bruno | Greenhouse Gases in the Polar Oceans |
| DEMERTZI Athina | Le blaX-ray and Neutron Scattering by Nanoscale Structures: Theoretical Issues and Stochastic Models for Data Analysis |
| GOMMES Cédric | X-ray and Neutron Scattering by Nanoscale Structures: Theoretical Issues and Stochastic Models for Data Analysis |
| HERFS Michael | Shedding Light on the Uncharted Areas of Viral Carcinogenesis |
| TERRAK Mohammed | Molecular Mechanisms of Peptidoglycan Synthesis and Division |
| VAN GROOTEL Valérie | Stellar Physics in the Service of Astrophysics: Constraining the Internal Physics and Evolution of Stars, and Applications to Exoplanetology |
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| DAS Krishna | From Exposure to Vulnerability: Rethinking Marine Wildlife Toxicology in the Face of Global Change |
| DEBUIGNE Antoine | Development of Polymerization Methods for Innovative Healthcare Materials |
| DELEU Magali | Membrane Lipids as Drivers of the Bioactivity of Amphiphilic Molecules in Plant Protection and Human Health |
| DELVENNE Pierre | The Materials Policy of (Post-)Industrial Europe |
| DESMET Christophe | Study of the central effects of type 2 cytokines and precision therapies targeting them |
| POLIS Stéphane | Grapholinguistic Variations in Ancient Egypt |
| SOUNNI Nor Eddine | Mapping lipid metabolism and non-genetic mechanisms of resistance and metastasis in cancer |
Five years on from the July 2021 floods, four studies carried out by engineers at the Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE) laboratory at the University of Liège shed new light on these extreme floods.
L'édition 2026 de la Nuit des Chercheur·es se tiendra le vendredi 25 septembre 2026. Impliquée dans la Nuit des Chercheur·es depuis sa création, l'ULiège vous invite à participer à cette manifestation de culture scientifique.
Balancing studies, career, and parenting is a major challenge for many families. Recognizing this issue, ULiège has established a partnership with and the nonprofit organization Seconde Peau , which will enable the opening of a new daycare center.
