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As a PhD student at Research Luxembourg, you will contribute to our dynamic and successful research.

One of the main advantages of choosing to do your PhD with Research Luxembourg is the access you will have to a wide range of well-equipped laboratories and facilities available at the University of Luxembourg, LISER, LIH and LIST.

There is also a vibrant academic support network with regular seminars, research group meetings and informal get-togethers, giving you plenty of opportunities to discuss your research interests with your supervisors, peers and other researchers and academic staff.

Fundings for PhD candidates

Several fundings from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) are available for PhD candidates (with Masters).

The main instrument for PhD candidates is the AFR Individual Grant. The AFR PhD grant scheme is divided into two sub-categories:

• AFR PhD in Luxembourg (AFR Incoming): Candidates from any nationality may apply for a doctoral position in an eligible Luxembourg host institution. Candidates will have to spend >50% in Luxembourg under an employment contract with the host institution;
• AFR PhD abroad (AFR Outgoing): Luxembourg nationals, or residents in Luxembourg for more than 5 consecutive years, may apply for a doctoral position in a public higher education institution abroad. The rule for this type of AFR grants is an employment contract with the institution abroad, but in exceptional cases, grants without a work contract can be awarded.

In 2022, 5 MEUR will be committed to support this funding scheme.

Results 2022 AFR Individual Call: 26 of 87 PhD projects funded [+5 on reserve list], 5 MEUR committed. Overview in our video, full list on https://t.co/Cwc9d6QG6O @uni_lu @LISERinLUX @LNS_Lux @naturmusee @SnT_uni_lu pic.twitter.com/O2o5lucjtj — Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (@FnrLux) July 29, 2022

Useful and practical information on AFR grants

• The contribution to the annual salary costs of a PhD candidate amounts 44.322 € / year  (salary index as of Oct 2021; in case the official Luxembourg salary index changes, the above-mentioned FNR contribution will be adapted automatically by the FNR). A topping-up by the employer is possible up to a maximum gross salary of 62.461 €/yr.
• The salary contribution will be paid until the PhD degree has been awarded with a maximum duration of 4 years. Alternatively: beneficiaries of an AFR PhD fellowship without employment contract will receive a monthly stipend of 1,500 € (in exceptional cases as specified above). The topping-up of the stipend up to a maximum amount of 2.100 € per month is possible.
• Employment contracts shall be the rule. AFR PhD grants are aimed at host Institutions to employ AFR beneficiaries to conduct their research projects. Stipends (i.e. fellowships without employment contracts) are only awarded outside Luxembourg in exceptional cases).
• A one-off travel lump sum, to be paid to the PhD candidate at the start of her/his AFR grant, based on the airline distance between the beneficiary’s residence at the application deadline or start of the grant, and her/his host Institution.
• A fixed training and mobility allowance of 6.000 € per PhD candidate. The training allowance is available to cover costs related to the candidate’s training and mobility activities: i.e. scientific/transferable skills training, scientific conferences or summer/winter schools, field work or travel between scientific contacts involved in the project as well as international research stays.

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Doctoral researcher (PhD) in Economics

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The Department of Economics and Management of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research in Quantitative Urban and/or Trade Economics.

Your Role...

The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Picard. The doctoral researcher's main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Quantitative Urban and/or Trade Economics. The thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg. The suggested theme of the PhD is Quantitative Urban and/or Trade Economics. The candidate is, however, welcome to suggest any other topic within the overarching project theme. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.

The doctoral researcher will benefit from being part of large research group comprising several PhDs and Postdoctoral Researchers working on related topics of Urban Economics, Trade and Migration. Being part of the project will allow the doctoral researcher to enhance his/her knowledge-base and experience; working on the various aspects of the project will not only strengthen his/her academic profile, but also give him/her access to (and the chance to critically engage with) some of the most renowned experts in the field.

Qualifications...

We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated interest in Urban and Trade Economics. In particular, the following requirements apply:

• A Master's of Science Degree in Quantitative Economics and Finance or any equivalent diploma training to academic research in Economics
• Have the linguistic skills to evolve in a multilingual environment: fluency in English will be considered an advantage
• Excellent communication and writing skills

About us...

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University's faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its "international outlook," #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance offers three Bachelor programmes, four Master programmes of Management and Economics and six Masters of Laws (LL.M.), as well as several continuing education courses. It also includes the Doctoral School in Law and the Doctoral School in Economics and Finance. Around 2,500 students from 90 different nationalities are enrolled at the Faculty. Academic staff from 18 different nationalities teach at the Faculty, supported by practitioners from the field, visiting scholars and guest professors. Rooted in Luxembourg but with a European and international outlook , the Faculty counts three departments:

• Department of Law
• Department of Economics and Management (DEM)
• Department of Finance

Teaching and research benefit from the proximity of the European institutions, Luxembourg's world-class financial centre ranked second in the world in investment fund asset domicile, and its vibrant business community. Institutional and private sector partnerships, sponsored Chairs, and a growing network of international partner universities make the FDEF a vibrant academic hub within the University at the heart of Europe .

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• Gender Equality Plan
• Research Ethics Committee
• Annual Reports
• Living conditions
• Labour market
• Urban development and mobility
• Crossing borders
• Health and health systems
• Data Science and Simulation
• Research portal
• Information Systems
• Source of data
• Doctoral lecture series on cross-border labour mobility
• Cycle de conférences « Nous et les autres »
• Research Seminars Series (RSS)
• Local/visiting Seminars
• Seminar series on Experiments, Ethics and Economics (3E)
• Seminars on social inequalities and public policies (SEMILUX)
• Data Science and Simulation (DSS)
• LISER-NUIG-IMA Microsimulation and Inequality Global Webinar Series

Doctoral Programme

• Visiting Researchers Programme
• Marchés Publics
• Ongoing surveys

• Public markets
• Doctoral Training Units (DTU)

The key goal of the DTU 3E is to bring together members of 5 research units in Luxembourg who conduct social science research using the experimental method (Luxembourg Institute of Socio Economic Research LISER; Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development INSIDE; Institute of Cognitive Science and Assessment COSA; Luxembourg School of Finance LSF; and Luxembourg Centre of Logistics LCL).

The aim of this new research consortium is to join forces across disciplines to embark in a comprehensive and innovative investigation of the interactions between economic decision making and ethics. This new research will include aspects of decision-making both within the household and in the workplace, and will explore the tension that often exists in these contexts between individual profit maximization and moral or ethical choices. We will use a variety of methods, all linked by the experimental approach, from behavioral economics experiments to computer science applications, to neuroscience techniques.

Our PhD students will be trained in this rich, multi-disciplinary environment and will learn to use scientific experiments in the social sciences from the perspective of economics, psychology, neuroscience and computer science, This training environment is virtually unique in Europe and will give our PhD students a strong competitive edge to become the research leaders of tomorrow.

The benefits of our consortium extend beyond its scientific merits and the potential for PhD training: the union of 5 prominent research units in Luxembourg will foster cross-institutional collaborations and will be a crucial step towards the establishment of a joint centre of excellence for the study of human behavior in Luxembourg.

New Doctoral Training Unit

With the free movement of people within the EU, decreasing transportation and communication costs, global inequality and political instability around the world, more and more individuals have been crossing borders in recent decades, either as permanent or temporary migrants, as daily transnational commuters, or as refugees. These cross-border movements generate important challenges for EU countries in general, and for Luxembourg in particular. In Luxembourg, foreigners account for about 50% of the total population and daily commuters nearly double the size of the national labor force. In this context, ACROSS aims to develop tools to monitor, analyze and improve the understanding of the causes and consequences of these flows – a prerequisite for relevant advice to policy-makers . It gathers economists and geographers from LISER , from the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg , and from the Research Division of STATEC (the National Institute of statistics and economic studies). The three partner institutions aim to create a team of excellence on cross-border mobility, a team where migration and labor market scholars can interact together with data providers, and where new generations of PhD students can benefit from synergies between institutions. Within the consortium, co-promotion will be systematically encouraged to reinforce the links between institutions as well as to train 4 younger researchers in PhD supervision. ACROSS builds on the doctoral education support of the Graduate Studies Program (GraSp) at LISER and of the Doctoral Schools of Economics and Finance (DSEF).

The Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) on Data-driven Computational Modelling and Applications (DRIVEN) trains cohorts of Doctoral Candidates who develop data-driven modelling approaches common to a number of applications strategic to the Luxembourgish Research Area and Luxembourg's Smart Specialisation Strategies . The DTU creates a bridge between strong methodological core competencies and application domains by training each Doctoral Candidate both in state-of-the-art data-driven approaches, and in the particular application domain in which these approaches are expected to lead to new discoveries: Computational Physics and Engineering, Computational Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), DRIVEN will result in a group of scholars that enriches Luxembourg's socio-economic landscape not only with expertise in data-driven discovery and machine learning , but also with a fundamental understanding of how these approaches can be of most use to a wide range of focus areas. We are strengthening the data-driven repertoire in areas already benefiting from these techniques, and strive to establish similar techniques in areas where these approaches are only nascent.

By embedding DRIVEN in the existing Doctoral Schools of the University of Luxembourg , a transversal Doctoral Programme becomes available, spanning across Faculties and reaching out to the Interdisciplinary Centres, as well as to the public research centres LIST and LISER. DRIVEN benefits from an existing doctoral education framework and established best practices, allowing to focus on innovative doctoral training strategies for its highly interdisciplinary research directions .

DRIVEN contributes, in conjunction with strong national and European initiatives such as Digital Lëtzebuerg and the Important Project of Common European Interest on HPC and Big Data Enabled Applications , to boosting Luxembourg's competitiveness thanks to an increased ability to make use of the vast amount of data generated worldwide on a daily basis.

The collaborative Doctoral Training Unit MINLAB is funded under the framework of the PRIDE scheme of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). It emerges from a strong cooperation between two faculties of the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).

The DTU on “Migration, Inequalities and Labour Markets” (MINLAB) consists of an interdisciplinary group of 16 supervisors affiliated to two Doctoral Schools who present a joint strategy for research and PhD training, and provide an innovative high quality training environment.

MINLAB specifically supports the development of applied socio-economic research (Economics and Quantitative Sociology) on issues around migration, labour markets and inequalities.

The DTU gathers members across three Luxembourgish research units and institutions:

• the Center for Research in Economics Analysis and Management (CREA) and the department of Economics and Management in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) at the University of Luxembourg (UL)
• the INtegrative research unit on Social and INdividual DEvelopment (INSIDE) in the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) at the University of Luxembourg (UL)
• the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

The DTU benefits from CREA's excellence in economics and methodology, INSIDE's expertise in quantitative socio-economic analysis of inequality and social problems, and LISER's comparative advantage in public policy analysis.

Two doctoral schools are involved in the DTU: the Doctoral School of Economics and Finance (DSEF) and the Doctoral School in Social Sciences (DSSS) which are respectively responsible for the doctoral education in Economics (for CREA in FDEF) and Social Sciences (for INSIDE in FLSHASE).

The DTU finances employment of PhD students for up to 4 years, organizes training and provides generous funding for participation to workshops and conferences.

The Doctoral School in Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg

The Doctoral School in Social Sciences (DSSS) is based in the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education of the University of Luxembourg.

The DSSS is dedicated to the study of social change—one of the most urgent and pressing phenomena in Europe today—and sustainable economic development as the answer to regulate and steer as well as prevent impacts of social change. Sound scientific descriptions and previsions of socio-economic developments in core areas of social life as well as a sound sustainable policy on integration and social inclusion, employment, education and health provision are required in order to balance social and economic demands. One of the leading tasks of a university at the beginning of the 21st century is to develop research programmes that elaborate knowledge structures and action models which will secure a sustainable social development.

The general aim of the doctoral school is to develop international and interdisciplinary research excellence and to prepare the candidates for an academic career in research as well as other professional careers in the field of social sciences, economics, social policy as well as social management and development.

The Doctoral School in Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg

The Doctoral School in Economics and Finance (DSEF) is based in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg.

The DSEF aims at providing doctoral candidates with a high-caliber research environment meeting the standards of the best universities in Europe and North America. The doctoral candidates will focus on developing their ability to cope with new, original research questions and address them with up-to-date quantitative tools and methods. The objective is to train highly skilled professionals and to contribute to the dissemination and advancement of knowledge in economics and finance.

Through the collaboration of the School's researchers with private partners as well as local and international public institutions, the doctoral candidates will have the opportunity to exchange with external experts and organizations.

The interdisciplinary nature of the School offers candidates a rich training environment and diversity of research topics, as well as a better opportunity of academic and professional placement within and outside Europe.

University of Luxembourg

Founded in 2003, the University of Luxembourg is the only public university of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Multilingual, international and research-oriented, it is also a modern institution with a personal atmosphere. Close to the European institutions and to Luxembourg's financial centre, the University of Luxembourg offers a large variety of doctoral trainings in the framework of its 7 Doctoral Schools.

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

LISER is a Luxembourgish public research institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Its research focus lies in the field of social and economic policy including the spatial dimension. The research activities of the Institute are carried out by three research departments labelled " Labour Market ", " Living Conditions ", and " Urban Development and Mobility ".

Each of the MINLAB PhD position is attached to a particular research stream and is associated to a dedicated PhD supervisor, a Doctoral School (DSSS or DSEF), and an employer (UL or LISER).

After picking one of the themes, applicants are invited to develop own topic suggestions around the given subject area. Alternative proposals can also be considered.

PhD in Economics at DSEF:

• a - Understanding how public policies affect integration, migratory trajectories (including subsequent and return migration) and immigrants' ties with the home country. In the context of the EU and the current migration crisis. Advisors : Prof. Picard and Dr. Verheyden ; DSEF; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Mr. Alper Ünsal
• b - Studying the impact of immigration policies increasing the match between immigrants skills and labour market needs on the economic performance of immigrants. Advisors : Prof. M. Beine (DSEF, UL). (Vacant)
• c - Evaluating the impact of policies on labour market outcomes based on state-of-the-art research designs in applied econometrics using survey or administrative data. Advisors : Prof. Konstantinos Tatsiramos; DSEF, UL & LISER (Filled) PhD Student: Mr. Giuseppe Grasso
• d - Improving econometric methodologies to predict missing observations in the merging of migration, labour and income inequality databases. Assessing the inverse probability tilting method developed by Graham et. al (2012). Advisors : Prof. Tripathi and Prof. Cosma ; DSEF; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Mr. Andreï Kostyrka
• e - Analyze the effects of migration flows in the destination and the origin countries when countries experience strong economic integration and less restrictive migration policies, which enhance the tax base mobility and possibly regional/national asymmetries in economic activities. Advisor : Prof. Zanaj ; DSEF; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Ms. Victoria Maleeva
• g - Differentiating conflicts and economic incentives as the determinant of emigration decisions. Understanding how the nature and location of conflicts and the local inequality matter for emigration. Empirical research. Advisor : Prof. Bertinelli ; DSEF; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Ms. Rana Cömertpay
• j - Analyzing the impact of taxation on the migration of skilled and unskilled labour across occupations and across countries or regions. Assessing the capability of EU labour markets to absorb the country or regional disparities and job polarization. Advisor : Prof. Dupuy ; DSEF; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Mr. Alessio Monetti

PhD in Social Sciences at DSSS:

• f - Studying the effects of economic insecurity, mass migration, destandardization of the life-course on health outcomes. Reconsidering the “healthy living in hard times” paradigm according to which health actually improves during economic downturns. Advisor : Prof. D'Ambrosio ; DSSS; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Ms. Giorgia Menta
• h - Understanding inequality and migration as a determinant of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility. Revisiting the “Great Gatsby Curve” according to which the Gini index and intergenerational elasticity of income are negatively correlated. Use of the EU-SILC cross-sectional and longitudinal survey. Advisor : Prof. Chauvel ; DSSS; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Mr. Maximilian Schiele
• i - Explaining inequalities in aging and health with life-course factors such as socioeconomic status, health, education, social network, employment trajectories, work ability, independent physical and cognitive functioning in older age. Advisor : Dr. Leist ; DSSS; UL. (Vacant)
• k - Studying the long term distributive impacts of social protection and tax-benefit mechanisms. Understanding how social protection, taxation and labour market institutions affect inequality, distribution and mobility (within and across generations). Use of tax-benefit microsimulation models and micro-econometric analysis. Advisor : Prof. Van Kerm ; DSSS; UL. (Filled) PhD Student: Ms. Rhea Ravenna Sohst
• l - Analyzing inequalities in civic engagement and perception of immigrants among native and immigrant youth before and after the "immigration crisis" in Europe. Focus on individual, parents', and school-level characteristics. Advisor : Dr. Valentova ; DSSS; LISER. (Filled) PhD Student: Ms. Adda Justiniano Medina
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PhD in Economics (PhD) University of Luxembourg Luxembourg

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About University of Luxembourg:

Founded in 2003, the University of Luxembourg is the only public university of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Multilingual, international and research-oriented, it is also a modern institution with a personal atmosphere.

About Luxembourg:

Although overlooked when it comes to study-abroad destinations, Luxembourg is one promising country for international studies. Luxembourg is among the many few countries in Europe that have endless possibilities for international students in terms of academics and living. Luxembourg is situated at the heart of Europe and is bordered by many European heavyweights like France and Germany.

About the city:

Luxembourg City is one of Europe's most scenic capitals. Its Unesco-listed Old Town is a warren of tunnels, nooks and crannies sheltering some outstanding museums, as well as lively drinking and dining scenes. The city is famed for its financial and EU centres, making weekends an ideal time to visit, as hotel prices drop dramatically.

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52 fully funded phd programs at university of luxembourg, luxembourg.

Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.

Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal. 

1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Software Engineering (Testing Web Applications)

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We offer an attractive PhD candidate position conducting research in close cooperation with an industrial partner. The successful candidate will join the SVV research group, headed by Prof. Lionel Briand. The team focuses on the development and design of reliable, safe, and secure software systems, carrying out both upstream activities such as requirements quality assurance and architecture analysis, as well as downstream verification & validation activities, primarily software testing and analysis.

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2. fully funded phd position in eu public law and/or comparative administrative law.

The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Joana Mendes. The doctoral researcher’s main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of EU Public Paw and/or Comparative Administrative Law, the thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg but can also be jointly supervised with another university. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials, during part of the duration of the studies.

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Mickaël Géraudel. The doctoral researcher’s main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Management. The thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg but can also be jointly-supervised with another university. The suggested theme of the PhD is Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. The candidate is, however, welcome to suggest any other topic within the overarching project theme. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.

4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics

The University of Luxembourg invites highly qualified and motivated applicants for a PhD position within the framework of the ROAD project ‘Road to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa’, jointly funded by the INTER scheme of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). The project is set up jointly with UCLouvain. The ROAD project seeks to provide a deeper understanding of road construction in sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, besides the acclaimed developmental impact on market access, the potential downturn in terms of deforestation and food insecurity it may give rise.

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5. fully funded phd position in computer science.

The successful candidate will join the Security and Trust of Software Systems group (SaToSS) led by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw in the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg. The doctoral candidate will be supervised jointly by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw and Prof. Dr. Jun Pang, and she/he is expected to (1) investigate attacks (e.g., inference attacks and adversarial attacks) on emerging machine learning models (e.g. diffusion models) and (2) develop privacy-preserving and robust defenses against such attacks while maintaining the models’ performance.

6. Fully Funded PhD Position in VR BIAS (FNR CORE)

The successful candidate will be part of the research group “Self-Regulation and Health” in the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, which operates the Clinical Psychophysiology Laboratory with cutting-edge technology for psychophysiological assessment. Working under the supervision of Dr Annika Lutz, the candidate will engage in research within the context of the multi-disciplinary project VR BIAS. The FNR CORE-funded project involves psychologists and computer scientists and employs virtual-reality technology to investigate questions related to embodiment and body image.

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7. fully funded phd position in robotic perception and situation understanding.

The position holder will work under the umbrella of the project “Deep Understanding Of The Situation For Robots” (DEUS), funded by FNR under the 2022 CORE funding program. In the project DEUS (God in Latin), we focus on the development of a novel robotic situational awareness to pursue the goal of deeply understanding the situation with multiple levels of abstraction such as geometric (e.g. shape of the objects), semantic (e.g. type of the objects), or relational (e.g. relationships between the objects), integrating the perceived measurements from multiple sensor sources, with past observations and background knowledge, and aligning with the robotic requirements of accuracy, efficiency, robustness and, dependability and trustworthiness, and explainability.

8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Sciences

The PhD position will be focused on conducting research in the field of science teacher education. In particular, the doctoral study will explore a professional development initiative offered through the SciTeach Center, a resource center dedicated to supporting the teaching of science at the primary levels in Luxembourg. The successful candidate will both coordinate and research the SciTeach Center Multiplikatoren initiative, thereby contributing to the research program led by Prof. Dr. Christina Siry, while being affiliated with the Institute for Teaching and Learning and situated within the Department of Education and Social Work (DESW). The PhD candidate will engage in independent as well as collaborative educational research focused on in-service teachers participating in innovative formation continue offerings, with a focus on sociocultural theoretical perspectives as related to teacher education and will work as a part of a dynamic research team.

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9. fully funded phd position in new and high efficiency photovoltaic concepts.

We are looking for a motivated, independent, passionate skilled physicists, physical chemists, or materials scientists to join our teams. As part of the photovoltaics cluster you will enjoy the opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate internally, and use well equipped laboratories. Our publications and provide a perspective on our research directions.

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10. fully funded phd position in financial law.

The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Isabelle RIASSETTO. The doctoral researcher’s main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Investment Fund Law. The thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg but can also be jointly-supervised with another university. The suggested theme of the PhD is Delegation, Outsourcing and Investment Fund Law. The candidate is, however, welcome to suggest any other topic within the overarching project theme. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.

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11. fully funded phd position in developing machine learned force fields to predict the stability of molecular crystals.

The PhD position is in the Theoretical Chemical Physics (TCP) group, led by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko in the Physics and Materials Science Department (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembourg. This PhD position belongs to the PHYMOL: A Marie Skłodowska–Curie Actions Doctoral Network (MSCA DN) on Intermolecular Interactions. As such, the PhD candidate will enjoy a broad collaboration with top-notch research groups. The candidate will also be co-supervised by Dr. Marcus Neumann, founder of Avant-garde Materials Simulation Deutschland GmbH, in Freiburg, Germany, the developer of the most accurate crystal structure prediction software in the pharmaceutical industry.

12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Empirical Finance

The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Thorsten Lehnert. The doctoral researcher’s main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Empirical Finance. The thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg but can also be jointly-supervised with another university. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.

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13. fully funded phd position in semantic and task-oriented communication design for 6g cyber-physical systems.

The successful candidate is expected to work on an emerging topic of Semantic and Task-oriented Communications Design for 6G Networks. The purpose of this project is to develop a novel communication design paradigm for multi-agent cyber-physical 6G systems which simultaneously maximizes the task effectiveness metric and the network resource usage. The developed task-oriented communication design is expected to apply to various important application domains, such as Industrial IoT, Multi-UAV systems, and multi-layer wireless networks.

14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Systems on Institutional Applications of Decentralized Finance

Successful candidates will pursue a Ph.D. degree (Doctorate) in information systems engineering while assigned to an industry partnership with SPUERKEESS. In this project, different topics around the adoption of ideas from decentralized finance (DeFi) in an institutional environment will be explored, for instance, which information about DeFi assets customers seek from their bank or which services they would like to take. The potential impact of more decentralized constructions of existing services or financial key figures will also be investigated.

15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science on Institutional Applications of Decentralized Finance

Successful candidates will pursue a Ph.D. degree (Doctorate) in computer science and information systems engineering while assigned to an industry partnership with SPUERKEESS. In this project, different topics around applying ideas from decentralized finance (DeFi) in an institutional environment will be explored, for instance, providing customers with DeFi-related services or how to construct decentralized versions of existing services or financial key figures and identifying the corresponding benefits and challenges.

16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering Science

The project is through the ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction, under the collaboration between the University of Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal. It deals with the investigation of structural steel elements for reuse in a circular economy and works at the material level by using destructive- and nondestructive steel material test and measurement methods. These procedures will allow for determining the steel properties for reuse in a new construction. Besides metallurgical and experimental work in the laboratory and on-site, the use of Artificial Intelligence will help to optimize the process and make more feasible use of nondestructive measurements.

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17. fully funded phd position in sparse training for deep neural networks.

The University of Luxembourg is seeking to hire a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science within the newly established group in Machine Learning led by Prof. Decebal Mocanu. Solving today’s scientific and real-world problems requires a new generation of Artificial Intelligence algorithms. The newly established group in Machine Learning at the University of Luxembourg is currently composed by Prof. Decebal Mocanu, five PhD students spread across three universities (University of Luxembourg, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente), and three affiliated members on distant time zones. Hybrid is the usual way of working and the language of communication is English.

18. Fully Funded PhD Position in soft matter physics applied in robotics

You will be a member of the ESMP group at DPhyMS, FSTM, working under the supervision of the group leader Jan Lagerwall in close collaboration with the Automation & Robotics Research Group (ARG), led by Holger Voos, at the UL Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT). You will be refining our recent method for making Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer (CLCE) sheets and fibres, adding new shapes like hollow spheres and tori and integrating them in strain and force sensing set-ups based on the mechanochromic response of CLCEs, i.e., their colour changes predictably and reversibly in response to mechanical strain. You will then incorporate the sensors in soft robotic arms and grippers mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), enabling real-time monitoring of the oper­ation of the UAV as it manipulates objects using the arm/gripper.

19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geometry

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg is hiring a doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Geometry, to work under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marc Schlenker.

20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-centered Design of personalized digital medical Devices

The Digital Medicine Research Group at LCSB is seeking a highly motivated PhD Candidate to actively contribute to the design and evaluation of health technologies. You will work on personalized treatment strategies at the intersection of people and technology. You will gather requirements, design, implement, and evaluate personalized health technologies/digital medical devices (DMDs) to support the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, focusing on applications that support the communication between patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs)/caregivers.

This will include (1) a literature review on human-centered design/inclusive design of personalized health technologies, focusing on communication apps/DMDs in the context of Parkinson and other chronic diseases, (2) a design concept for trustworthy digital patient-HCP communication informed by iterative user research; (3) and a comparative mixed-methods evaluation on trust linked to the adoption of DMDs in different clinical contexts (i.e., communication and management tools, wearable sensors/diagnostic devices, social communicators).

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21. fully funded phd position in hybrid optimization algorithms for modern supercomputers.

The successful candidate will join the Parallel computing and Optimisation Group (PCOG) research group, led by Prof. Pascal Bouvry and Dr. Grégoire Danoy as deputy head. PCOG conducts research on parallel computing and optimization techniques, in particular how different species may co-evolve taking local decisions while ensuring global objectives, to tackle large and difficult problems. The main application domains are security, trust and reliability; reliable scheduling and routing on new generations of networks; sustainable development and systems biomedicine; Unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAV), Smart Cities.

22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Real-Time and Embedded Systems

SnT is a leading international research and innovation centre in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT systems and services. We play an instrumental role in Luxembourg by fueling innovation through research partnerships with industry, boosting R&D investments leading to economic growth, and attracting highly qualified talent. CritiX (Critical and Extreme Security and Dependability) is a research group, and a laboratory for state-of-the-art research in a problem area that may be described as extreme computing, including the protection of critical systems and data against severe and persistent threats. We advocate resilience as a paradigm shift enabling a comprehensive approach to extreme security and dependability challenges, from first principles.

23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

The successful candidate will join the Parallel computing and Optimisation Group (PCOG), led by Prof. Pascal Bouvry. PCOG conducts research on parallel computing and optimization techniques, in particular how different species may co-evolve taking local decisions while ensuring global objectives, to tackle large and difficult problems. The main application domains are security, trust and reliability; reliable scheduling and routing on new generations of networks; sustainable development and systems biomedicine; Unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAV), Smart Cities.

24. 11 Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing Efficient Methods for an Accurate Energy Ranking of Molecular Crystals

PHYMOL brings together leading experts in the fields of molecular simulations, quantum chemistry, crystal structure prediction, intermolecular modelling, spectroscopy, machine-learning, and nano-clusters, from 12 academic institutes & laboratories, and 4 industrial entities, in an ambitious programme of research and training to develop a new generation of researchers in the field of molecular modelling.

Available projects DC1: Towards the accurate description of the induction energy in SAPT DC2: Intermolecular interactions in excited states: the CO–CO* and other excimers DC3: Collision-induced absorption and high-resolution spectra calculated from ab initio potentials DC4: Reparametrisation of semiempirical models DC5: Development of intermolecular force-fields with many-body dispersion interactions DC6: Consistent treatment of polarization and charge-delocalization in many-body systems DC7: How intermolecular interactions shape polymorphic energy landscapes DC8: State-of-the art modelling of new quantum materials: surface-supported metal atomic quantum clusters DC9: Implicit machine-learning solvent models for confined spaces. DC10: Adapting state-of-the-art modelling of new quantum materials to industry-standard open-source big data analysis tools. DC11: Density-mapped FFs: Rapid prototyping of force-fields based on physical and ML mappings onto the electronic density

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25. fully funded phd position in medical history.

Realize a PhD thesis in the history of psychiatry. You will be a member of the ANR-FNR research project “The mental health of migrants: actors, practices and networks (1950-1980, France, Switzerland, Germany)”. In this framework, you should produce a PhD entitled provisionally “International epistemic communities (1945-1990s) – A transnational history of psychiatry of migration: theories, transfers and regulations”.

26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning

We seek a highly motivated bioinformatician or computational biologist who is well versed in the statistical and machine learning analysis of biomedical data and bioscientific programming for a project on the study of neurological disorders. The candidate should have experience in the analysis of large-scale biomedical data (omics, clinical or neuroimaging data), using statistical methods, pathway/network analysis or machine learning. The candidate will conduct integrative analyses of biomedical datasets, focusing on omics, neuroimaging and clinical data to predict prognostic outcomes of interest (clinical progression, worsening of morphometry and connectivity patterns in brain MRI).

This will include implementing and applying software analysis pipelines and interpreting disease-related data together with experimental and clinical collaborators. Classification models guided by prior mechanistic knowledge will be built, exploiting the known grouping structures among features in the omics and neuroimaging data, using dedicated structured learning algorithms. With the help of statistics, machine learning and pathway- and network- and analyses, the goal is to improve the mechanistic understanding of disease-associated alterations in neurological disorders.

27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital History and the History of the Second World War

The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research University. Luxembourg is a dynamic, multicultural country in the heart of Europe with a strong research and development base supported by important organisational resources.The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) is a research centre for the study, analysis and public dissemination of contemporary history of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular focus on digital methods and tools for doing innovative historical research. It serves as a catalyst for innovative and creative scholarship and new forms of public dissemination and societal engagement with history.

28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital History and the History of the Second World War

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We are seeking a highly motivated individual for a PhD position in the field of Distributed, Cooperative and Intelligent Systems. The successful candidate will join a dynamic and interdisciplinary research team, exploring novel approaches for designing and implementing decentralized systems that can effectively coordinate and cooperate to achieve common goals. The research will involve both theoretical and practical aspects of distributed algorithms, machine learning, communicative systems and more.

30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

The proposed PhD project will be a continuation of research done by Jim Barthel in computational number theory and public key cryptography in the context of the PRIDE project. A possible research starting point for this PhD project is the practical evaluation of a combination of graph-based techniques with number-theoretic problems like the “simultaneous Chinese Remainder Theorem” or integer factorisation and generalizations thereof, especially practical evaluations of possible algorithms for the “Decisional Simultaneous Chinese Remaindering” problem is of interest. Suggestions for other interesting research topics in computational number theory or public key cryptography can also be discussed.

31. Fully Funded PhD Position in 6G Communications

The research group focuses on wireless/satellite communications and networking and is headed by Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas. The research areas focus on the formulation, modelling, design, and analysis of future 5G and beyond communication networks that are capable of supporting new services in a cost-efficient manner. Use cases of interest include IoT verticals, unmanned aerial vehicles, integrated satellite-space-terrestrial networks, quantum communications and key distribution, spectrum management and coexistence, tactile Internet, and autonomous transportation.

32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural Language Processing

SnT is a leading international research and innovation centre in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT systems and services. We play an instrumental role in Luxembourg by fueling innovation through research partnerships with industry, boosting R&D investments leading to economic growth, and attracting highly qualified talent. We’re looking for people driven by excellence, excited about innovation, and looking to make a difference. If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place!

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33. fully funded phd position in physics (solar cells).

In the framework of an FNR funded project we will investigate the fundamental limitations of chalcopyrite thin film solar cells in order to improve their efficiency. Thin film solar cells provide the electricity source with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions. The PhD student will be a member of the Department of Physics and Materials Science within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg. She or he will perform research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Siebentritt.

34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cryptography for Finance and Privacy

The successful candidate will join the CryptoLux group led by Prof. Alex Biryukov. He or she will contribute to a research project entitled “Advanced Cryptography for Finance and Privacy (CryptoFin)”, which is funded by the Luxembourgish Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) through the CORE program.

35. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry

GNSS Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is an innovative remote sensing method exploiting signals of GNSS after reflection from the Earth’s surface. The doctor candidate will investigate spaceborne GNSS-R for soil moisture using coherent and incoherent observations. In this context, the successful candidate will develop algorithms that will allow us to better understand present day soil moisture variability for more accurately modelling the water cycle from a constellation of Earth-observing nanosatellites.

In this project, the multi-constellation space-borne GNSS-R data will be used to understand the sensitivity of the GNSS-R forward-scattering to surface roughness, vegetation, and other parameters such as incidence angle. The PhD candidate will be a member of the Geophysics Laboratory working on the development and implementation of innovative deep learning techniques for the space-borne GNSS-R studies.

36. Fully Funded PhD Position in Differential Geometry

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg is hiring a doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Transformation Groups in Differential Geometry, to work under the supervision of Prof. Karin Melnick.

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37. fully funded phd position in computational spectroscopy of 2d materials.

A PhD student position in Theoretical/Computational Solid-State Physics is available in the group of Prof. Ludger Wirtz at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg. The group uses and develops electronic structure methods for the description of electronic excitations in novel materials. A special focus lies on 2D materials and their application for light-harvesting and light emission. The research project will be on the role of electron-phonon coupling in spectroscopy. It will focus on the development of new methodologies and their applications to phonon-assisted luminescence and Raman spectroscopy. The project takes place in collaboration with partner groups of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility: Dr. Fulvio Paleari (Modena), Dr. Claudio Attaccalite (Marseille), Dr. Sven Reichardt (Luxembourg).

38. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling and Control of Soft Aerial Manipulators

The successful candidate(s) will join the Electrical – Communications Engineering group and work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Holger Voos on the Kirchberg Campus of the University of Luxembourg. You will contribute to a joint research project between Engineering and Physics, dealing with the development of novel soft aerial manipulators. The aim of this PhD project is to design, model and control a novel soft robotic arm to be attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle. The tasks comprise the design of the soft arm, the integration into an unmanned aerial vehicle, the modelling of the resulting combination of soft arm and rigid aerial vehicle and the derivation of suitable control approaches. Finally, the overall solutions will be validated in simulations as well as in experimental flight tests in an indoor flight arena, equipped with a motion capture system.

39. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modeling Space Program Architectures for Informing Strategic Planning

How can a space program architecture be represented to support decision-makers in exploring alternatives and informing strategy? The main focus of this PhD will be on the development of a conceptual framework of space program architectures and the more detailed development of a meta model / data model of space program architectures, including the definition of high-level simulation models that are used for sizing technologies, systems, and missions. The methodology is primarily based on a combination of a literature survey and expert reviews to define the conceptual framework and data model. In addition, use cases and case studies are used for validating the resulting models. These use cases are either linked to the current Luxembourg space ecosystem or might even be outside space, e.g. sustainable energy transition.

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40. fully funded phd position in spontaneous applications for next generation radar sensing networks.

The group has been working on next generation radar sensors in different applications, including automotive, autonomous vehicles, in-cabin monitoring, occupancy sensing, drones, multi-copters, gesture recognition, smart buildings, smart street lighting, smart factories, healthcare and robotics. The emerging radar sensors that are in use by the group, are using multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology and can be connected to build distributed and co-operative sensing networks. SPARC group has further expanded its research to integrated sensing and communications, weather radar systems and metacognitive radars,. To develop the signal processing techniques, the group researchers are using real data captured by the available radar modules at the lab, or the custom built MIMO radar with flexibility of changing the transmit waveform and signal processing units on the fly.

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• Half of Latinas Say Hispanic Women’s Situation Has Improved in the Past Decade and Expect More Gains

3. Educational and economic differences among Latinas today

Table of contents.

• Assessing the progress of Hispanic women in the last 10 years
• Views of Hispanic women’s situation in the next 10 years
• Views on the gender pay gap
• Latinas’ educational attainment
• Latinas’ labor force participation
• Latinas’ earnings
• Latinas as breadwinners in their relationships
• Bachelor’s degrees among Latinas
• Labor force participation rates among Latinas
• Occupations among working Latinas
• Earnings among Latinas
• Latinas as breadwinners in 2022
• Appendix: Supplemental charts and tables
• Acknowledgments
• The American Trends Panel survey methodology
• Methodology for the analysis of the Current Population Survey

Though Latinas have collectively seen socioeconomic gains, their educational and economic circumstances are varied. Younger Latinas and U.S.-born Latinas, for instance, are more likely to report having a bachelor’s degree than older and immigrant Latinas, respectively. This chapter explores how other characteristics such as spouse or partner ethnicity and presence of their children at home are associated with differences in educational and economic outcomes.

Some Latinas are more likely than others to have a bachelor’s degree.

• Age: Younger Latinas (ages 25 to 29) are about twice as likely as older Latinas (ages 65 or older) to hold a bachelor’s degree (30% vs. 14%).
• Nativity: U.S.-born Latinas are more likely than those born outside the U.S. to hold a bachelor’s degree (30% vs. 19%).

Though labor force participation rates have increased in the last two decades for Latinas overall, some are more likely to be employed or seeking work. Among civilians ages 25 to 64:

• Education: Latinas with a bachelor’s degree or higher are more likely than those with a high school education or less to participate in the labor force (82% vs. 60%).
• Nativity: U.S.-born Latinas are more likely than Latinas born outside the U.S. to participate in the labor force (75% vs. 64%).
• Spouse or partner: Latinas who are living with a Hispanic spouse or partner are less likely to work or seek work than those living with a non-Hispanic partner (63% vs. 77%).
• Children at home: Latinas with children in the home are less likely to work or seek work than Latinas without (67% vs. 73%).

Among civilian Latinas ages 25 to 64 who were employed or looking for work in 2023, 15% work in office and administrative support occupations. Similar shares work in management, business and financial occupations (13%) and education, legal, community service, arts and media occupations (12%).

The kinds of occupations Latinas most recently worked in are also associated with whether they have a bachelor’s degree. Among civilian Latinas ages 25 to 64 who were employed or looking for work in 2023:

• Those with a bachelor’s are most likely to have education, legal, community service, arts and media jobs (27%) or management, business and financial jobs (24%).
• For those without a bachelor’s, the most common occupational groups are office and administrative support (17%) and health care support, protective service, and personal care and service (15%).
• Those with a bachelor’s degree are less likely than those without one to work in health care support, protective service, and personal care and service occupations (6% vs. 15%, respectively) and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3% vs. 12%).

Though wages have increased for Latinas overall in the last two decades, some earn more than others. Among Latinas ages 25 to 64 who are not self-employed:

• Education: Latinas with a bachelor’s degree make $28.85 per hour (at the median) while those with a high school education or less earn $16.67 per hour.
• Nativity: U.S.-born Latinas make more per hour than immigrant Latinas ($21.25 vs. $17.90).
• Spouse or partner: Hispanic women who live with a spouse or partner earn roughly the same as those without a spouse or partner. However, Hispanic women living with a non- Hispanic spouse or partner make significantly more at the median than those living with a Hispanic spouse or partner ($25.00 vs. $19.00).
• Children at home: Latinas living with their children earn about the same as Latinas not living with their children ($18.50 vs. $20.00).

Overall, 13% of Hispanic women living with their spouse or partner are the breadwinners of their couples. Another 28% of Latinas are in financially egalitarian relationships, while the remaining 59% are living with a breadwinner spouse or partner.

Some Latinas are more likely than others to be either their relationships’ breadwinners or in financially egalitarian relationships with their spouse or partner.

• Education: Latinas with a bachelor’s degree or higher were more likely than those with a high school education or less to be breadwinners (16% vs. 9%, respectively) or in financially egalitarian relationships (35% vs. 24%).
• Spouse or partner: Hispanic women living with a partner or spouse who is not Hispanic were more likely than those with a Hispanic spouse or partner to be the breadwinner of their relationship (16% vs. 12%, respectively). They were also less likely than their Hispanic-partnered counterparts to say their spouse or partner was the breadwinner (54% vs. 61%).

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The doctoral researcher will be working under the supervision of Professor Picard. The doctoral researcher's main task will be to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Quantitative Urban and/or Trade Economics. The thesis work will be undertaken at the University of Luxembourg. The suggested theme of the PhD is Quantitative Urban and/or Trade Economics. The candidate is, however, welcome to suggest any other topic within the overarching project theme. The doctoral candidate will contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.

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70 years after brown v. board of education, new research shows rise in school segregation.

As the nation prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education , a new report from researchers at Stanford and USC shows that racial and economic segregation among schools has grown steadily in large school districts over the past three decades — an increase that appears to be driven in part by policies favoring school choice over integration.

Analyzing data from U.S. public schools going back to 1967, the researchers found that segregation between white and Black students has increased by 64 percent since 1988 in the 100 largest districts, and segregation by economic status has increased by about 50 percent since 1991.

The report also provides new evidence about the forces driving recent trends in school segregation, showing that the expansion of charter schools has played a major role.  

The findings were released on May 6 with the launch of the Segregation Explorer , a new interactive website from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. The website provides searchable data on racial and economic school segregation in U.S. states, counties, metropolitan areas, and school districts from 1991 to 2022. 

“School segregation levels are not at pre- Brown levels, but they are high and have been rising steadily since the late 1980s,” said Sean Reardon , the Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at Stanford Graduate School of Education and faculty director of the Educational Opportunity Project. “In most large districts, school segregation has increased while residential segregation and racial economic inequality have declined, and our findings indicate that policy choices – not demographic changes – are driving the increase.” 

“There’s a tendency to attribute segregation in schools to segregation in neighborhoods,” said Ann Owens , a professor of sociology and public policy at USC. “But we’re finding that the story is more complicated than that.”

Assessing the rise

In the Brown v. Board decision issued on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and established that “separate but equal” schools were not only inherently unequal but unconstitutional. The ruling paved the way for future decisions that led to rapid school desegregation in many school districts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Though segregation in most school districts is much lower than it was 60 years ago, the researchers found that over the past three decades, both racial and economic segregation in large districts increased. Much of the increase in economic segregation since 1991, measured by segregation between students eligible and ineligible for free lunch, occurred in the last 15 years.

White-Hispanic and white-Asian segregation, while lower on average than white-Black segregation, have both more than doubled in large school districts since the 1980s. 

Racial-economic segregation – specifically the difference in the proportion of free-lunch-eligible students between the average white and Black or Hispanic student’s schools – has increased by 70 percent since 1991. 

School segregation is strongly associated with achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups, especially the rate at which achievement gaps widen during school, the researchers said.  

“Segregation appears to shape educational outcomes because it concentrates Black and Hispanic students in higher-poverty schools, which results in unequal learning opportunities,” said Reardon, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning . 

Policies shaping recent trends 

The recent rise in school segregation appears to be the direct result of educational policy and legal decisions, the researchers said. 

Both residential segregation and racial disparities in income declined between 1990 and 2020 in most large school districts. “Had nothing else changed, that trend would have led to lower school segregation,” said Owens. 

But since 1991, roughly two-thirds of districts that were under court-ordered desegregation have been released from court oversight. Meanwhile, since 1998, the charter sector – a form of expanded school choice – has grown.

Expanding school choice could influence segregation levels in different ways: If families sought schools that were more diverse than the ones available in their neighborhood, it could reduce segregation. But the researchers found that in districts where the charter sector expanded most rapidly in the 2000s and 2010s, segregation grew the most. 

The researchers’ analysis also quantified the extent to which the release from court orders accounted for the rise in school segregation. They found that, together, the release from court oversight and the expansion of choice accounted entirely for the rise in school segregation from 2000 to 2019.

The researchers noted enrollment policies that school districts can implement to mitigate segregation, such as voluntary integration programs, socioeconomic-based student assignment policies, and school choice policies that affirmatively promote integration. 

“School segregation levels are high, troubling, and rising in large districts,” said Reardon. “These findings should sound an alarm for educators and policymakers.”

Additional collaborators on the project include Demetra Kalogrides, Thalia Tom, and Heewon Jang. This research, including the development of the Segregation Explorer data and website, was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.   

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Study finds shared acoustic relationships among the world’s languages and music

By BERT GAMBINI

Published May 17, 2024

A UB psychologist is part of a global research team that has identified specific acoustic relationships that distinguish speech, song and instrumental music across cultures.

The study published in the journal Science Advances , which involved experts in ethnomusicology, music psychology, linguistics and evolutionary biology, compared instrumental melodies along with songs, lyrics and speech in 55 languages. The findings provide an international perspective supporting ideas about how the world’s music and languages evolved into their current states.

“There are many ways to look at the acoustic features of singing versus speaking, but we found the same three significant features across all the cultures we examined that distinguish song from speech,” says Peter Pfordresher, professor of psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, and one of the 75 contributors to a unique project that involved the researchers assuming the dual roles of investigator and participant.

The three features are:

• Singing tends to be slower than speaking across all the cultures studied.
• People tend to produce more stable pitches when singing as opposed to speaking.
• Overall, singing pitch is higher than spoken pitch.

The exact evolutionary pressures responsible for shaping human behaviors are difficult to identify, but the new paper provides insights regarding the shared, cross-cultural similarities and differences in language and music — both of which are found in highly diverse forms across every human culture.

Pfordresher says the leading theory, advanced by the paper’s senior author, Patrick Savage, senior research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is that music evolved to promote social bonding .

“When people make music, and this is the case around the world, they tend to do so collectively. They synchronize and harmonize with each other,” says Pfordresher. “The features we found that distinguish music from speech fit well with that theory.”

Think about tempo as a mechanism to encourage music’s social aspects. Being in sync becomes more difficult as tempo increases. When the tempo slows, the rhythm becomes predictable and easier to follow. Music becomes a more social enterprise.

It’s the same with pitch stability, according to Pfordresher.

“It’s much easier to match a stable pitch with someone else, to be in sync with the collective, than is the case when a pitch is wavering,” he says.

Similarly, it’s possible that the higher pitches found in singing happen as a byproduct of songs being produced at a slower rate.

“Slower production rates require a greater volume of air in the lungs,” explains Pfordresher. “Greater air pressure in the vocal system increases pitch.”

Conversational speech, in contrast, is not synchronized. Conversations generally alternate between people.

“I would speculate that conversational speech is faster than song because people want to hold on to the stage. They don’t want to provide false cues that they’ve finished, in essence handing the conversation off to another speaker,” says Pfordresher. “Pausing in a conversation or speaking slowly often indicates that it’s another person’s turn to speak.”

The study’s novel structure, with its investigators as participants, is part of the increasingly global nature of music cognition research. Savage and Yuto Ozaki, the lead author from Keio University in Japan, recruited researchers from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific, who spoke languages that included Yoruba, Mandarin, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian, Balinese, Cherokee, Kannada, Spanish, Aynu, English and dozens more .

“First, we used this structure to counteract the unfortunate tradition of extractive research in cross-cultural musical studies in which researchers from the developed world collect, or extract, data from a culture in the developing world, and use the data to promote their own success,” says Pfordresher.

The second reason has more to do with the validity of the data.

“Our analyses require annotation of syllable and note onsets in songs and speech from around the world,” Pfordresher says. “No single investigator knows all of these languages. By having each investigator participate and thus check their own annotations, we add additional validity to our study.”

Each investigator-participant chose a song of national significance from their culture. Pfordresher selected “America the Beautiful.” Savage chose “Scarborough Fair.” Ozaki sang the Japanese folk song “Ōmori Jinku.”

Participants sang the song first, performed an instrumental version next on an instrument of their choice and then recited the lyrics. They also provided an explanation for their choice as a free-form speech condition of the study. All four conditions were recorded and then segmented.

To avoid the possibility of bias creeping into the data, Pfordresher explains that not all investigators were involved in generating the study’s initial set of hypotheses. All of the authors looked at the data but did so to make sure there were no differences between the initial group and those others.

“We do hope to follow up this study with other research that has authors from around the world sample data from within their cultures,” says Pfordresher.

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