Tech Advantage

Here's a taste of what you can expect from Tech Advantage, a podcast by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.

When we think of innovation in materials technology, we envision a landscape where cutting-edge research and creative thinking converge to transform the way we construct or manufacture and utilize materials, while simultaneously addressing environmental concerns. Sustainable composites represent one such innovation, which has been significant, to say the least, in the quest for eco-friendly and resource efficient materials.On this episode we speak to Dr Damien Lenoble, Director of the Materials Research and Technology department, at LIST, to know a little bit about these composites and how they've had a remarkable impact on various sectors.

View transcriptWastewater surveillance and its use in determining the status quo of the health situation gained particular prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has proven to be an effective tool for gathering timely and valuable intelligence regardless of people's behaviour (such as their willingness to get tested, for example) and interventions (such as the implementation of containment measures). What does wastewater monitoring involve? Would such a surveillance mechanism help predict the next pandemic? We spoke to Dr Leslie Ogorzaly, senior researcher within the Environmental Research and Innovation department at LIST, to try to answer these questions.

In our very first quick-bite episode, we delve into Internet of Things and help you make sure that your IoT devices are secure to use or to gift this holiday season.

In the second of our short solo episodes, we take a tour of the metaverse.

In this episode, we speak with Bianca-Rita Pistillo, Partnership Development Officer at LIST, about how researchers are tackling the challenges in hydrogen production and looking into new and sustainable ways of producing the fuel, which holds significant promise as a clean energy source. The transcript is available here.

This week, we speak with Francesco Ferrero, Director of the IT for Innovative Services Department at LIST, about the advent and rapid democratization of generative AI, the role it plays in our lives and what policymakers and researchers are doing to rein it in while simultaneously making the best use of it.

Forests are intricately linked to human life. But are today’s forests the same as people had known them before? How have they changed and what impact has this change had on us and on Earth? And what is being done to protect them? In today’s episode, Richard Keim, who leads the Catchment and Eco-Hydrology group at LIST, answers some of these questions.