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• Novel materials for the separation of xenon and krypton

  15 Dec 2014

  Novel materials might one day capture noble gases from air. Professor Rajamani Krishna of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) contributed to an American study of the characteristics of these ...

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• ERC Starting Grants for nine UvA and AMC-UvA researchers

  11 Dec 2014

  The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to nine researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC-UvA).

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• Eric Fischer appointed interim dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  11 Dec 2014

  The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Professor Eric. J. Fischer as interim dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, effective 1 January 2015. Fischer will fill this ...

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• Succession AUC dean

  11 Dec 2014

  Pending the appointment of the new dean of Amsterdam University College (AUC), the AUC Board has appointed Dr Ramon Puras (currently vice-dean of AUC) as acting dean for the coming semester (or until the appointment ...

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• NWO Grant for Daan Crommelin, Harry van Zanten and Michiel Mandjes

  9 Dec 2014

  Prof. Daan Crommelin (UvA and CWI), Prof. Harry van Zanten (UvA) and prof. Michel Mandjes (UvA) received a grant in the NWO programme Mathematics of Planet Earth.

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• Spotlight on PhD: Janaina Gianfelice de Castro

  8 Dec 2014

  On 11 December, Janaina Gianfelice de Castro (1982) will be awarded her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). During her research at the Institute of Physics (IoP), she explored the breakage behaviour of ...

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• IvI and IoP obtain FOM/Shell Computational Science grant

  4 Dec 2014

  The Computational Science Lab within the UvA's Informatics Institute (Prof. Alfons Hoekstra and Dr Eric Lorenz) and the Soft Matter group of the Institute of Physics (Prof. Daniel Bonn and Dr Rudolf Sprik) obtained a ...

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• Joint program ITMO and UvA

  4 Dec 2014

  On 28 November 2014 Prof. Vladimir N. Vasilyev, rector of ITMO University in St. Petersburg and Dr Louise Gunning, chair of the board of the University of Amsterdam, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to arrange ...

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• Aniko Korosi receives grant to study effect of early nutrition on brain development

  4 Dec 2014

  Dr Aniko Korosi (SILS) received the NWO Food & Cognition grant (over €660.000,-) in collaboration with Danone research to study the effects of early nutrition on brain development. The 4-year project will be ...

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• Healthy embryonic brain development depends on serotonin receptor

  4 Dec 2014

  Researchers Dr Hans van Hooft and Dr Pascal Chameau of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences recently published in cooperation with researchers from the University of Geneva Medical School and the ESPCI ...

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• ERC Starting Grants awarded to Faculty of Science researchers

  3 Dec 2014

  The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to the following researchers at the Faculty of Science: Dr Miranda Cheng (IoP and KdVI), Dr Anna Watts (API) and Dr Shimon Whiteson (IvI). With a value ...

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• Grant awarded for research on Alzheimer and epigenetics for Carlos Fitzsimons

  1 Dec 2014

  Dr Carlos Fitzsimons of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences was awarded a €100,000 grant by the International Foundation for Alzheimer Research (ISAO) for his 2-year project entitled: Epigenetic programming of ...

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• Million euro funding for structure determination of chiral molecules

  27 Nov 2014

  The Fund New Chemical Innovations (NCI) has awarded 1,2 million Euro to a consortium with the Molecular Photonics Research group of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS, University of Amsterdam). ...

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• Mood sensing service at TedXAmsterdam

  26 Nov 2014

  Sightcorp, a spin-off of the University of Amsterdam, together with Dell, provides a mood sensing service at TedX Amsterdam.

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• Successful first Chemistry Tour

  25 Nov 2014

  Last Wednesday 19 November Science Park Amsterdam received two rather distinguished guests when Nobel laureates in Chemistry Arieh Warshel (2013) and Roald Hoffmann (1981) met with chemistry bachelor students. ...

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• Pieter Zeeman Prize for physics alumnus Berend Zwartsenberg

  25 Nov 2014

  The biennial Pieter Zeeman Prize for the best Master thesis in physics has been awarded to Berend Zwartsenberg for his thesis entitled 'Taking control of the surface electronic structure of 3D topological insulators'.

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• Winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry advocate fundamental research

  24 Nov 2014

  Three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - W.E. Moerner (2014), Arieh Warshel (2013) and Roald Hoffmann (1981) - honoured the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) with their presence during its ...

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• UvA physicists successful in 2014 call for FOM 'Vrije Programma's'

  24 Nov 2014

  The proposal for the FOM 'Vrije Programma' grant called 'Higgs as a probe and portal' by UvA professor Eric Laenen, has been granted in the 2014 round. Five other proposals have been selected for funding, including ...

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• Maarten van Bommel, professor of Conservation Science

  20 Nov 2014

  Dr M.R. van Bommel (1968) has been appointed professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science.

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• Chemistry Nobel laureates make a plea for basic research

  20 Nov 2014

  Chemistry Nobel laureates (W.E. Moerner (2014), Arieh Warshel (2013) en Roald Hoffmann (1981) visit Amsterdam to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC). All three ...

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• Mieke Zaanen appointed Director General of the KNAW

  18 Nov 2014

  Mieke Zaanen, Secretary General of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been appointed Director General of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), effective 1 February 2015.

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• FOM 'Projectruimte' grant for UvA physicist Ben Freivogel

  18 Nov 2014

  The Foundation FOM has awarded a 'Projectruimte' grant to Dr Ben Freivogel for his proposal 'Quantifying violations of causality in quantum gravity'.

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• Phd in the spotlight: Frank Tramper

  14 Nov 2014

  Frank Tramper (1981) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 28 November. As part of his doctoral research at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API), Tramper studied ...

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• Local order in liquids

  14 Nov 2014

  In liquids there is, contrary to the common perception, no complete disorder at the molecular level. This is shown by Matthijs Panman and his colleagues at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) in ...

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• Amsterdam educational institutes join valorisation support

  13 Nov 2014

  As from November 12 November, the UvA, AUAS/HvA, VU, VUmc and AMC-UvA will consolidate their Technology Transfer Offices into a new centre of expertise, to be called Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA).

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• Three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry to visit Amsterdam

  13 Nov 2014

  The Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) will soon be welcoming three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry: William E. Moerner (2014), Arieh Warshel (2013) and Roald Hoffmann (1981).

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• UvA Informatics Master's programmes rate high in NVAO assessment

  12 Nov 2014

  In the accreditation decisions just announced by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), all Master's programmes at the Graduate School of Informatics have received positive or very ...

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• UvA researchers win the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2014

  12 Nov 2014

  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac and Marcel Worring from the Informatics Institute won the Grand Challenge 1st prize award at the ACM Multimedia 2014 with their contribution ‘New Yorker Melange: Interactive Brew of ...

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• UvA honorary doctorates for astrophysicist Kouveliotou and heritage expert Van Rappard-Boon

  12 Nov 2014

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will award honorary doctorates to astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou and heritage expert Charlotte van Rappard-Boon. Kouveliotou is receiving the honorary doctorate for her crucial ...

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• UvA Master's in Logic rated 'Excellent'

  11 Nov 2014

  The Master's programme in Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been awarded the status of 'Excellent' by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). The NVAO assessment panel ...

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• Amirhossein Habibian receives ACM Multimedia best paper award

  10 Nov 2014

  Amirhossein Habibian from the Informatics Institute (IvI) received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 edition of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia. The prize is received for the paper entitled "VideoStory: ...

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• New Insights into the Paleobiology of the Dodo presented

  6 Nov 2014

  Researcher Kenneth Rijsdijk from UvA-IBED and colleague’s will present new insights of the evolving of the extinct dodo at the Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology on Thursday 6 November. These ...

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• New book by Prof. Jan van de Craats

  5 Nov 2014

  Prof. Jan van de Craats wrote an interesting book about symmetry.

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• New method helps Google Translate translate better

  4 Nov 2014

  How does Google Translate know which words form the best translation for a particular sentence? A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new method that assists computer ...

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• Succesful HIMS Industry Day

  4 Nov 2014

  Last Friday, 31 October, the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences organised its annual Industry Day. Over 30 companies (from Amsterdam SMEs to multinationals) were introduced into the research themes of the ...

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• Faster self-learning search engine through UvA algorithm

  4 Nov 2014

  How does Google know which search results to display? There are many algorithms that generate search results, but which one works best? Professor Maarten de Rijke of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has headed the ...

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• UvA Grassroots for ICT Innovation in Education

  3 Nov 2014

  Thomas Mensink and Jan van Gemert have been awarded an UvA Grassroots for their proposal 'Online-PAS: Evaluation of Python Assignments for Scoring and Direct Feedback'. The goal of UvA Grassroots is to use ICT for ...

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• Master's students test drone for combating rhinoceros poaching

  31 Oct 2014

  Master's students Camiel Verschoor and Anouk Visser (Artificial Intelligence) are travelling with the Dutch UAS team to South Africa to test a drone they developed for combating rhino poaching.

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• First Sustainable Chemistry exchange student to China

  29 Oct 2014

  UvA chemistry graduate Rolf Beerthuis has been accepted for a two-month research project at Fudan University - one of the top 5 universities in China. Beerthuis, who obtained his MSc degree cum laude earlier this ...

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• Vidi laureate Tati Fernández appointed at HIMS

  28 Oct 2014

  Dr. M.Á. (Tati) Fernández-Ibáñez has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Synthetic Organic Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS). She was recently awarded a prestigious Vidi ...

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