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Milena Dragicevic Sesic: a peaceful struggle for culture

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It is a singular personality who received the title of honorary doctor from the University of Montpellier at the end of December 2023. A leading Serbian teacher, deeply committed to the involvement of research in her field of expertise, Milena Dragićević Šešić has contributed to the development of cultural policy studies worldwide, notably through the Unesco Chair she has held since 2004.

Jean-Paul Metzger: The ecologist in the landscape

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In residence in Montpellier in autumn 2023 thanks to the UM's MAK'IT (Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions) program, ecologist Jean-Paul Metzger, professor at the University of São Paulo, has extended his research linking ecology and quality of life with French counterparts.

[LUM#20] Metavers in motion

Podcast, LUM Magazine

December 20, 2023

Improving communication between people who cross paths in virtual universes is one of the...

Clean water from the sun

The conversation

December 17, 2023

Contamination of water resources by organic micropollutants is a major concern for...

Daniele Di Pietro: the maths aesthete

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With his NEMESIS project, mathematician Daniele Di Pietro has just been awarded 7.8 million euros in ERC Synergy funding. His goal: to overcome the current technological barriers to numerical simulations of complex physical problems. The director of the Alexandre Grothendieck Institute in Montpellier, France, describes his career path in a discipline for which he was not originally destined.