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Nr. 16 - December 18, 2025 - What made 2025 so colorful
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Picture : A garland? Not really - Just metal shavings left over from a machining process on the MOUV platform - ©Yvan Flamant
While 2025 will undoubtedly be remembered for the celebrations marking UCLouvain’s 600th anniversary, the year has also been marked by:
- the creation of 4 new structures, bringing to 49 the total number of technology platforms within the University;
- the arrival of several new pieces of equipment acquired as part of the Plan de Relance, paving the way for new research initiatives and services for society;
- the rollout of a management, inventory and booking tool across 20 platforms and 6 research groups or institutes, spanning UCLouvain’s 3 sectors.
But let’s leave the numbers aside and look at what comes next : new equipment, research projects, training opportunities and events — plenty of exciting developments to end the year on a highly positive note!
Happy holiday season!
The Platforms Community
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Two new platforms in the field of prototyping...
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The Neuroscience Techniques and Methods Developments (NTMD) platform, part of the Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS) within the Health Sciences sector, provides technological and logistical support to users seeking to design, develop, or implement research devices and equipment for conducting experiments in the field of human neuroscience.
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Bringing ideas to life, the OpenHub turns projects into reality through rapid prototyping, leveraging innovative solutions in mechanical manufacturing, artificial intelligence, IoT, and immersive technologies, while integrating user feedback at every stage.
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... and a focus on the ScienceInfuse platform
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ScienceInfuse is a platform committed to promoting, disseminating, and making science and technology accessible to a broad audience.
Its three main priorities are to:
• spark scientific curiosity from an early age;
• promote science and technology among secondary school students by connecting them with the university environment;
• showcase university research to the general public by making current scientific approaches, methods, and challenges accessible.
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ScienceInfuse
Promotion, dissemination, and outreach in science and technology
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The BIOINFO platform is now responsible for managing the “Cluster-SSS” system
It is an infrastructure designed for large-scale data storage, high-performance computing (HPC), and virtualization, dedicated to the research groups and technology platforms of UCLouvain’s Health Sciences Sector.
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Bioinformatics
• Methodological and technical support in bioinformatics
• Consultancy and training
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Motion capture at LEMSC: from iron man to structural engineering
With a new eight-camera motion capture system from Vicon, the platform can track and analyze the 3D movement of civil engineering structures.
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Mechanical testing, structures, and civil engineering laboratory
• Mechanical control tests on materials
• Special tests on railway equipment
• Design of special tests on the 200 m² test floor
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WELCOME is now equipped with an ultra-precise thermoreflectance system
As part of a partnership with Microsanj, the Welcome technology platform now hosts a state-of-the-art thermoreflectance tool, integrated into a probe-based measurement system.
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Wallonia ELectronics & COmmunications MEasurements
• Service and expertise in electromagnetic characterisation of materials, devices, sensors, circuits, systems
• Access to characterisation infrastructure
• Equipment rental
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When the lasers and mirrors of the LAS&O platform are used to confine hydrogen molecules in space
In a study published in Physical review Letter, an international team of physicists involving the University of Amsterdam, the University of Toruń (Poland) and UCLouvain managed to confine molecular hydrogen in an optical cavity - two mirrors facing each other with a laser beam injected between them.
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Lasers & Optics
• Imaging
• Interferometry
• Time / frequency metrology
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Virtual reality for a renewed and ecological city: a new project for the MiiL
This project explores the potential of immersive technologies as tools for decision-making support and dialogue around urban transformations related to climate, environmental, and societal challenges.
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Media Innovation & Intelligibility Lab
Audiovisual production, new visual communication, digital device design and evaluation
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UniMusea: a new scientific journal edited by Musée L
The Musée L is announcing the opening of the call for contributions for the inaugural issue of its new scientific journal, UniMusea – Research and Practices on University Collections, devoted to the study, interpretation and critical analysis of university collections.
The inaugural issue will focus on debates and critical reflections on the decolonization of university collections.
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Musée L
To enhance the university’s collections from
• a museographical point of view
• a scientific point of view
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Making statistics clear and simple : that’s also the aim of the SMCS!
The platform is thus launching into the creation of short, targeted videos aimed at researchers.
The first of these reminds us why it is necessary to ask the right questions before beginning to collect data.
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SMCS winter school: artificial intelligence and machine learning in Python
From January 26 to 30, 2026, master the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and boost your programming skills!
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Statistical Methodology and Computing Service
• Data analysis training courses and consultancy services
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Interest in the equipment management, inventory, and reservation system is growing!
Through the encoding carried out, an inventory of the main equipment is gradually being compiled at UCLouvain level.
The advantage? Knowing that cutting-edge equipment exists within the University and who to contact!
For technical and scientific staff, this can be very useful for a one-off experiment or in the event of a breakdown.
And for academic members involved in setting up a research project, it avoids having to ask funders for equipment that already exists!
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Organized in collaboration between OpenHub and The POD, with the support of AILouvain and Agoria, this event is aimed at companies wishing to collaborate with high-level students on concrete innovation projects as part of the next edition of the StudentLabs program.
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With over fifteen years of experience in secretarial work, Juliette Dupret has joined the LEMSC platform team to fill the part-time position of administrative and logistics manager.
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After more than 20 years at Solvay and then its subsidiary Syensqo, Pascal Hierckens joined the CREDEM platform team in November 2025.
Specializing in industrial IT, he is responsible for the automation of prototypes and experimental pilots.
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Marco Angele began working at the LACAMI platform in early December.
As a materials processing and sample preparation technician, he will be responsible for technical support for sample cutting methods and heat treatments (encapsulation, muffle furnaces, etc.).
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Arnaud Wautier joined the LACAMI team in early November.
An engineer specializing in the design, implementation, and validation of multiphysical experimental devices, he will bring technical and applied engineering expertise to projects involving the development of experimental devices for materials and/or physicochemical transformation processes, coupled with cutting-edge characterization techniques (in situ setups).
In the short term, he will focus on the Cryostress project (mechanical testing < 20 K).
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