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Pierre Defourny Head of the Geomatics research lab focusing on land monitoring by satellite remote sensing from local to global scale and land use modelling using geographical information systems to support agriculture, forestry and land use planning. He was the science leader of the ESA projects Sen2Agri, Sen4CAP, Sen4STAT and the Land Cover…

 modified on 06/12/2024   |    Earth and Life Institute
VisionThe AGRO Louvain Faculty of Bioengineering is a national and international benchmark for higher education in life sciences and engineering, offering training to meet current and future societal and environmental challenges. MissionsAGRO Louvain trains bioengineers and doctors specialising in agronomic sciences, chemistry and…

 modified on 24/02/2025   |    Faculté des bioingénieurs
Internal reference number : ARC 22/27.121Start date: 01/10/22      End date: 01/10/2027Pollination is a major regulating service to sustain plant biodiversity and food production. The multidisciplinary NUTRIBEE project focuses on the nutritional quality of harvested pollen and nectar and its impact on the successful wild bee…

 modified on 14/07/2026   |    Earth and Life Institute
ESA Sentinels for CAP The Climate Change Initiative Land Cover project aims at providing long-term satellite-based products on the land surface and its dynamics to further understand the climate system and support climate modelling. Consistent global products were generated: global maps characterizing LC and changes at 300m from 1992 to 2015, a…

 modified on 07/12/2024   |    Environmental Sciences
Our main areas of research in environmental sciences

 modified on 15/07/2026   |    Earth and Life Institute
As doctoral graduates, there are many professional paths for you: for instance in the research community (by pursuing research at a university, at an independent research centre or in an R&D setting in the private sector), in universities (e.g. through research and technology transfer), in teaching (e.g. in a college of higher education) or in…

 modified on 17/11/2025   |    Le doctorat à l'UCLouvain
Whats is a predatory journal / publisher ?With the advent of Open Access and the author-pays model (the author pays to make his work available, rather than the reader paying a subscription), unscrupulous publishers have flourished, taking advantage of the system to make a profit. We call them predatory publishers, predatory magazines, pseudo…

 modified on 24/01/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques et Learning Centers de l'Université catholique de Louvain
Karishma Ansaram PhD   Matteo Barbagli PhD Malo Beguin PhD   Christophe Desagre PhD Tom Duterme PhD   Younes El Hichou PhD  …

 modified on 07/12/2024   |    Louvain Finance
>>> ATTENTION : change of date ! Based on the book The Profit Paradox by Jan Eeckhout.In the context of the new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" (LECON2806), Guilhem Cassan and Amma Panin are pleased to invite you to a special lecture by Professor Jan Eeckhout on his book, The Profit Paradox.In this work,…

 modified on 05/09/2025   |    Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
Our laboratory is specialised in the study of heterogeneous catalysis, more specifically in the preparation and characterisation of divided solids and catalysts, and in the control of the reactivity of solids.  Our topics of excellence are : 1. The use of a bunch of catalysts preparation methods, for adjusting the…

 modified on 06/05/2026   |    Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis