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"Remember to use it as an instrument, not as your brain." Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, on AI, speaking to our students on Belval Campus during his state visit to Luxembourg. His fear: AI becoming "a replacement to your analytical skills". #uni_lu #AI

His example was the phone in your pocket: follow its directions long enough, and you stop knowing where you are going. His daily rule: one hour with a book, one hour of exercise, only one hour on the phone. "The third one I unfortunately fail on quite frequently."

Quantum sensors are built to pick up signals too faint for conventional instruments. In medicine, that could mean spotting a disease long before the first symptom. That was the focus of the latest #Quantum & #AI Breakfast by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg AI Factory.

🌿 Prof. Anupam Sengupta: quantum effects may play a role in how plants use sunlight so efficiently. 🤖 Rick Schneider, Helical: in work with Pfizer, AI identified significantly more patients at risk. 🔒 Shekoufeh Gorgi Zadeh: AI still makes mistakes, so regulation keeps science trustworthy.

The second edition of the Quantum & AI Breakfasts opened with logistics in June and sustainability in July. On Friday 18 September, the conversation moves to health. 🧵

Around the round table: → Jean-Philippe Arie (Luxinnovation) → Anupam Sengupta (Uni.lu) → Rick Schneider (Helical) → Shekoufeh Gorgi Zadeh (Uni.lu) Closing by Simone Niclou, Vice-Rector for Research, Uni.lu. Moderated by Jim Kent (KentMedia).

The second edition of the Quantum & AI Breakfasts opened with logistics in June and sustainability in July. On Friday 18 September, the conversation moves to health. 🧵

Quantum technologies and AI are opening new possibilities for healthcare: diagnostics, drug discovery, personalised care, more efficient health systems. The third breakfast asks how their convergence can support faster insights, more accurate predictions, better delivery.

Three questions psychology is now asked to answer: how early adversity shapes mental health, how AI changes the way we think and decide, and what makes people act on climate change. Not questions for psychologists alone. They decide how societies function. And #uni_lu works on all three. 🧵

Can concrete have a second life? Prof. Numa Bertola of the University of Luxembourg has won a €1.7M ERC Starting Grant for RESCUE: tools that tell engineers, before a building comes down, which concrete elements can be safely reused, and for how long. #uni_lu | @erc.europa.eu | #ERCStG

Reusing whole slabs, walls and columns is already possible. More than 50 examples exist across Europe. What is missing is a way to predict how a cut-out element will behave for decades. RESCUE combines physics-based models, on-site sensors and machine learning to give each building its own answer.

The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has a new Board Member: Prof. Jens Kreisel, Rector of the University of Luxembourg. www.uni.lu/en/news/uni-... @guildeu.bsky.social | #TheGuild

He was elected at The Guild's General Assembly in June, alongside Prof. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Vice-President for Europe at @upcite.bsky.social. The Guild brings together 23 research universities from 17 European countries. The University of Luxembourg joined in May 2025.

Anupam Sengupta has been named the next Head of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Luxembourg, starting 1 October. His ERC (@erc.europa.eu) project studies how bacteria control light, work tied to cancer research and sustainable materials. #uni_lu #Research

Somewhere in the sky, a #NATO uncrewed aircraft goes silent. Its #SATCOM link has been jammed. It can no longer send navigation and sensor data back to its ground station, and the mission stops until it captures a signal again. 🧵

Behind the project: the SIGCOM group at #uni_lu's SnT, one of the world's largest research groups dedicated to satellite communications. It is also one of the first projects of the Cyber Research Hub, the partnership between the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (@defense.gouv.lu) & the University.

Somewhere in the sky, a #NATO uncrewed aircraft goes silent. Its #SATCOM link has been jammed. It can no longer send navigation and sensor data back to its ground station, and the mission stops until it captures a signal again. 🧵

Two weeks ago, we closed the first Quantum & AI Breakfast on a line that stayed with us: "AI is improving the engine. Quantum is beginning to redesign the road." On 8 July, we turn to #sustainability. 🧵

Two talks anchor the morning: → Miguel Olivares Mendez (Uni.lu): Sustainability in Space → Jean Senellart (Quandela): Quantum, AI, and the future cost of compute, framing quantum as a new pillar of the HPC continuum Round table + closing by Rector Jens Kreisel. #uni_lu

Tonight 49 PhD researchers from across the world opened the ESERA Doctoral School 2026 at the University of Luxembourg. From Chile to India, Denmark to Brazil: their research is asking what it really means to learn science. 🌍🔬 #ESERA2026 #uni_lu

#AI is improving the engine. Quantum is beginning to redesign the road. Three things from the first Quantum & AI Breakfast of 2026: → AI in logistics is business transformation, not software → The hard part is the data, not the algorithm → Adoption depends on trust 🧵 #QuantumAtUniLu