ULB Research ⤶	Description of the Unit	Projects of the Unit	Composition
Collaborations of the Unit	Protected technologies	Publications	Skills

European Studies, International Relations and globalisation

The ULB profits from its location at Brussels for studying Europe. Back in 1963, it set up the Institute of European Studies, later to become a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. All facets of European integration - law, the economy, politics, history and culture - are the subject of in-depth analysis. This sees researchers analysing for example the European Union institutions and politics, the interaction between national and European authorities, the history of the European construction, the development of European societies and mentalities or the internal policies of the European Union, such as migration policy, asylum policy, criminal policy, monetary policy, the set of rules and regulations linked to the Single Market or environmental legislation. They also look into the external relations of the European Union in the context of a wider analysis of global governance and regional integration. This research focused on Europe is just one part of the ULB's overall research effort in the field of international relations and globalisation. Other fields studied in depth include issues relating to security, conflict resolution, maintaining peace, as well as developments in international public and private law and comparisons between different systems of national law. Further research activities focus on specific geographical areas such as the Islamic world or Africa, looking both at concrete situations and the economic, legal and cultural dimensions of globalisation.

Mathematics and Statistics

Algebra, analysis, differential geometry, mathematical physics, probabilities, statistics, financial mathematics, solving under-determined problems - this diversity reflects the variety of research conducted these days in mathematics. Even if the public at large might sometimes think that the field of mathematics is ''exhausted'', this is by no means the case, with it continuing to constitute an extremely active research field. At the ULB, mathematics research involves both fundamental and applied research. From partial differential equations to the theory of probabilities, via differential geometry and group theory, the various fundamental research subjects relate to some of today's most important unsolved questions. These subjects are fully in tune with the outstanding tradition of the ULB School of Mathematics, as reflected by Théophile de Donder (1872-1957) and Théophile Lepage (1901-1991), or by Jacques Tits (born in 1930) and Pierre Deligne (born in 1944, Fields Medal in 1978), both of whom are former ULB students. For its part, the work done in applied mathematics and statistics provides ULB researchers with state-of-the-art tools in a whole range of disciplines: actuarial science, theoretical physics, computer science, operations research, economics, finance, social sciences, public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, etc. In these various fields, specialised groups have been developed, working at the interface of mathematics research and discipline-related research.