The Faculty

Location

The Faculty of Science of the University of Liège is located on three main sites: Sart Tilman, Liège-centre and Arlon in the province of Luxembourg.

Located on the green Sart Tilman campus in the hills above the city of Liège, the Faculty comprises a number of buildings: Institutes of astrophysics and geophysics, botany, chemistry, geography, geology, mathematics and physics.

The Faculty also has a branch in the heart of Liège, at the Edouard Van Beneden Zoological Institute. This is where practical biology work is carried out at the^1st bachelor level. This site includes the Faculty's Réjouisciences unit and the Pôle muséal de l'Embarcadère du Savoir (Aquarium-Muséum, Maison de la Science, Espaces botaniques universitaires de Liège...). This geographical proximity enables numerous interactions.

In terms of education,  Arlon Campus environnement is dedicated to training and research in environmental sciences and management. The campus is also the institutional showcase for sustainable construction and housing.

Teaching

Teaching at the Faculty, organized around nine teaching departments, is designed to be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.

Courses are offered at for bachelor's and master's degrees in biology, chemistry, geography, geology, mathematics and physics. More specific masters courses are also offered: bioinformatics and modeling, climatology, geomatics-geometrology, oceanography, environmental science and management, space science. Finally, there are a number of highly specialized masters courses: aquaculture, sustainable energy management, nanotechnology, natural risk management, etc.

Research

At the cutting edge of research, the Faculty of Science graduates around 70 PhDs every year. It is organized into eight Faculty Research Units (Mathematics, CESAM, MOLecular SYStems, inBioS, FOCUS, SPHERES, GEOLOGY and ASTROBIOLOGY) and  four Interfaculty Research Units (STAR, GIGA-R, DIDACTIfen and Art, Archaeology and Heritage).

All the faculty's URs are grouped under the umbrella of "Exact and Natural Sciences" (ENS), whose principal mission is to support, notably through fundamental research, the development of knowledge leading to the elaboration of new concepts and contributing to the constant modernization of the training of students and the scientific community.

The Faculty is also associated with several scientific stations  : in Corsica (Station de Recherches Sous-marines et Océanographiques in Calvi), Switzerland (Station de Recherches du Jungfraujoch), Chile (TRAPPIST-Sud telescope in the Atacama desert), Morocco (telescope at the Ouka-Imeden Observatory) and Belgium (Station Scientifique des Hautes-Fagnes at Mont-Rigi).