“Invited Papers”: a new and promising oppportunity within the Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège

Since 1932 the Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege (BSRSL) has been publishing research papers and conference proceedings. The scope of the journal covers all fields of Natural Sciences as well as some aspects of applied Sciences. In 2006, the Bulletin started a new life in an electronic form exclusively. The journal is hosted on the PoPups platform established by the University of Liege libraries and which promotes free of charge publication in Open Access. Recently the SRSL board has decided to include a new kind of contribution called “Invited Papers”. According to the topics of the Bulletin the goal is to welcome and publish high-level peer reviewed papers not only relating on research activities of selected renowned teams but to be also a forum for the presentation of relevant scientific reviews, reflections and opinions reflecting the state-of-the art on specific themes. The “Invited Papers” section also allows young researchers to describe the background, the goal and the modalities of their work as a tutorial review. The first two invited papers presented herein have been written by the two laureates of the Annual Prize 2020 of the Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege: Mrs Elsa DUCROT (PhD Student – Astrobiology Research Unit - University of Liege, Belgium) and Dr Alexis DARRAS (Post-doc - Saarland University – Germany). Their publications are entitled: “A brief history of the TRAPPIST-1 System” and “Evaporation of superparamagnetic colloids” respec