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• Statement in response to brief squat of UvA’s Student Services building

  30 Apr 2015

  The following statement was issued by the Executive Board in response to the brief squat of the UvA’s Student Services building at the Binnengasthuisstraat.

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• Johan van Benthem elected member of American Academy

  30 Apr 2015

  Johan van Benthem, emeritus university professor of Pure and Applied Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), was recently elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Two Faculty of Science subject areas listed in QS World University Rankings top 50

  29 Apr 2015

  In the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published on Tuesday 28 April, Geography and Linguistics of the Faculty of Science are in the top 50.

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• STW grant for UvA physicists Gregorkiewicz and Sinke

  29 Apr 2015

  UvA professors Tom Gregorkiewicz (Institute of Physics, IoP) and Wim Sinke (IoP and Energy Research Centre for the Netherlands, ECN) have received a grant in the Open Technology programme of the Dutch Technology ...

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• STW project awarded to Raphael Poss and Andy Pimentel

  28 Apr 2015

  UvA-IvI researchers Raphael Poss and Andy Pimentel received an STW Open Technology Program grant of €500,000 to develop software techniques and tools together with ASML to improve the monitoring inside- and ...

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• Results of works council elections

  21 Apr 2015

  Works council elections took place from 7-14 April. In a public meeting on Monday, 20 April, the Central Voting Office confirmed the election results.

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Applied Gaming Research Community

  21 Apr 2015

  Academic staff at VU University Amsterdam’s Network Institute and the University of Amsterdam’s Master’s programme in Game Studies have created a new platform. A group of researchers working in the field of Applied ...

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• 2014 Annual Review published

  21 Apr 2015

  The Faculty of Science (FNWI) Annual Review provides an overview of highlights from the Faculty's teaching and research activities during the past year.

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• COMMIT/ valorisation grant for VideoStoryXL proposal

  20 Apr 2015

  Researchers Amirhossein Habibian, Thomas Mensink and Cees Snoek of the Informatics Institute have received a COMMIT/ valorisation grant in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and ...

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• Press statement UvA-AUAS/HvA Executive Board

  20 Apr 2015

  The Executive Board would like to thank the Supervisory Boards for their enormous efforts and the speed and assiduousness with which they have drawn conclusions and taken decisions. The broad support makes it ...

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• A radical approach to efficient amine synthesis

  20 Apr 2015

  In a concerted research effort with several European research groups, chemists of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have found experimental evidence for the existence of a unique type of ...

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• Press statement Supervisory Boards

  19 Apr 2015

  Today, the Supervisory Boards held talks about the current situation with the Executive Board, the deans, the domain chairs and the representative advisory bodies of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...

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• Statement Supervisory Boards

  19 Apr 2015

  The following statement was issued by the Supervisory Boards following the decision by Louise Gunning to tender her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...

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• President UvA Executive Board tenders resignation

  19 Apr 2015

  Yesterday evening, Louise Gunning tendered her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to the Supervisory Boards.

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• Supervisory Board statement

  17 Apr 2015

  The following statement is from the Supervisory Board, following the Joint Meeting of the Central Works Council (COR) and the Central Student Council (CSR):

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• Best poster award for information and language processing researchers

  16 Apr 2015

  Hosein Azarbonyad and Maarten Marx from the research group Information and Language Processing Systems (Informatics Institute) and Mostafa Dehghani and Jaap Kamps from ILLC have won the best poster award of 37th ...

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• New method to automatically assess quality of Wikipedia pages

  14 Apr 2015

  Wikipedia is extremely useful as a work of reference, but how do you know whether its content is accurate? UvA researcher Xinyi Li has developed a method to automatically assess the quality of Wikipedia pages. He ...

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• Decision to evict Maagdenhuis occupiers

  13 Apr 2015

  We realise that questions exist about our decision this past Friday to observe the ruling of the court and formally request the police to vacate the Maagdenuis building. In the following letter, we would like to ...

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• Patrick Decowski, professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics

  13 Apr 2015

  Dr M.P. Decowski has been appointed professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Phd in the Spotlight: Magdalena Julkowska

  13 Apr 2015

  Magdalena Julkowska (1986) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam on 30 April. During her doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) she learned more about how ...

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• Maagdenhuis vacated

  11 Apr 2015

  After six weeks, the police made an end to the Maagdenhuis occupation this morning. Yesterday, the district court ordered the occupiers to immediately vacate the building. After the judge’s ruling, the UvA observed ...

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• Judge rules that occupiers must leave the Maagdenhuis

  10 Apr 2015

  The interim relief judge of Amsterdam’s district court has decided that the occupiers of the Maagdenhuis must leave the building immediately and that for safety reasons the planned festival must be cancelled.

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• Dierenbescherming nominates researcher Peter Hordijk

  10 Apr 2015

  Special Chair molecular cellular biologist Peter Hordijk, of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), has been nominated by the Dutch Animal Protection Society Dierenbescherming for their "Courage in the ...

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• Update: Maagdenhuis

  8 Apr 2015

  In recent weeks, a number of concerns have been raised within the academic community. The Executive Board has taken note of these concerns and has presented a 10-point plan to address them.

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• Rubicon grant for three young UvA researchers

  8 Apr 2015

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW) has awarded a Rubicon grant to three UvA researchers who recently obtained their doctorates. This will allow them to conduct research at a leading institute ...

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• Joint exchanging program University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Science

  7 Apr 2015

  On 25 March 2015 an Memorandum of Understanding (moU) between the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was signed in Bangalore. In the absence of the Rector of the UvA, Prof. Dymph van ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Centre for Analytical Sciences Amsterdam

  7 Apr 2015

  ‘The UvA and VU University Amsterdam are home to a high concentration of analytical chemistry professionals. In addition to our individual strengths, we offer a very special, highly unique combination,’ explains ...

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• H2020 funding for Alfons Hoekstra

  1 Apr 2015

  In the H2020 FET High Performance Computing call, Prof. Alfons Hoekstra (research group Section Computational Science) has received a grant of EUR 4 million as coordinator for the ComPat project: Computing Patterns ...

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• NWO project granted to Peter Sloot and Mike Lees

  31 Mar 2015

  Prof. Peter Sloot and Dr Mike Lees (Faculty of Science-Informatics Institute) have obtained a grant for a NWO project called 'The Kumbh Mela Experiment: Measuring and Understanding the dynamics of mankind’s largest ...

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• Theo Gevers in documentary about emotion recognition

  31 Mar 2015

  Theo Gevers, professor of Computer Vision at the Informatics Institute, is featured in an international documentary about the use of new technology to decipher our unconscious messages.

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• ERC Starting Grant for Joris Mooij

  31 Mar 2015

  Dr Joris Mooij researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems-group of the Informatics Institute, has obtained an ERC Starting Grant for the project ‘Causal Analysis of Feedback Systems (CAFES)’. The grant provides ...

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• Heathlands more susceptible to climate change due to landscape management

  29 Mar 2015

  Dutch heathlands are a typical ‘cultural landscape’ that cannot exist without landscape management. A new study by a European science team, which included Dr Albert Tietema of the University of Amsterdam, shows how ...

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• Update power failure: exams and classes

  27 Mar 2015

  A major power outage this morning (Friday, 27 March) has hit large parts of the province of North Holland and Amsterdam in particular. The UvA’s Science Park and IWO were without power. Both locations have been ...

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• Science faculties UvA-VU launch popular science magazine

  26 Mar 2015

  The first issue of the popular science magazine ‘Amsterdam Science’ was officially released earlier today during the Dies Natalis celebrations of the UvA’s Faculty of Science. A joint initiative of the University of ...

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• Three UvA Informatics Master's receive ‘Top Programme’ designation

  26 Mar 2015

  The Master's programmes in Logic, System and Network Engineering (SNE) and Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam's Graduate School of Informatics have all been designated as ‘Top Programmes’ by the ...

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• New method to remove cyanide from industrial waste water

  26 Mar 2015

  Chemists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered a new method for removing cyanide from the waste water of steel mills. The removal of cyanide from such water is expensive but essential. Paula Oulego ...

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• UvA-VU research project in Digital Humanities granted

  24 Mar 2015

  The research programme Amsterdam Data Science was recently awarded an investment from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA). Now it has been announced that within this programme, University of Amsterdam researchers ...

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• ABC grant awarded to Carien Lansink and Heleen Slagter

  24 Mar 2015

  Dr Carien Lansink of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and Dr Heleen Slagter (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) have been awarded a research grant of €250,000.- by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Earth Surface Science

  24 Mar 2015

  Chemicals in drugs end up in our waste water and in the environment. Fortunately, some microorganisms may be able to break down these harmful substances. Exactly how these bacteria do this is being jointly ...

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• The chemistry of oil paintings

  23 Mar 2015

  At the fifteenth Dies Natalis of the Faculty of Science on Thursday 26 March chemist Piet Iedema of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) will lecture on the chemical aspects of decay in oil ...

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• Marie Curie Fellowships awarded to thirteen UvA researchers

  20 Mar 2015

  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship has been awarded to thirteen researchers for research projects at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The projects will focus, among other things, on sexual communication between ...

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• Update: 10-point plan

  20 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will set up a committee to develop proposals for modernising the way the UvA is governed. In addition, a committee of inquiry will look at the UvA’s finances, together with its real ...

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• UvA wins EP-Nuffic prize for Ambassador Programme

  19 Mar 2015

  During the EP-Nuffic Annual Conference on 12 March, the Orange Carpet Award for higher education was awarded to the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for its Global Exchange Ambassador Programme. EP-Nuffic has created ...

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• ABC grant awarded to Paul Lucassen and Liesbeth Reneman

  17 Mar 2015

  Prof. dr Paul Lucassen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) has been awarded a €250.000,- project grant together with Dr Liesbeth Reneman (AMC) by Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center for their project: 'Detecting ...

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• Register for the ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015

  16 Mar 2015

  The ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015 will be presented to a young academic with an original and exciting research proposal that centres around the aspects of creativity, cognition and/or the workings of the human brain. ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  13 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 16 March, the third meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place.

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• UvA climbs in latest THE World Reputation Rankings

  12 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen in the latest THE World Reputation Rankings 2015 and is now placed in the 51-60 group.

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Dynamic Analysis Seminar

  6 Mar 2015

  Talking about their research is an important activity for mathematicians, but an audience of five colleagues is just too small. And so, every two weeks, UvA researchers and their VU colleagues come together to attend ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  6 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 9 March, the second meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The discussion will take place in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to ...

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• Photanol and AkzoNobel collaboration wins Bio Business Award 2015

  3 Mar 2015

  The collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA) spin-off company Photanol and the chemical group AkzoNobel has been awarded the WBM Bio Business Award 2015 in the category of Bio-based Chemical ...

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• Horizon 2020 grant links nanotechnology with art

  3 Mar 2015

  Dr Katrien Keune of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has received a European H2020 grant within the NANORESTART programme (NANOmaterials for the RESToration works of ART).

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• PhD in the spotlight: Sander Oldenhof

  3 Mar 2015

  Sander Oldenhof (1985) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 10 March. As part of his doctoral research at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), Oldenhof ...

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• Update: UvA Maagdenhuis

  2 Mar 2015

  For the moment, there is no intention to evacuate the Maagdenhuis.

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• Making Analytically Incompatible Approaches Compatible

  2 Mar 2015

  An innovative research project in the analytical sciences has received substantial funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO. The MAnIAC project, led by Prof. Peter Schoenmakers of the Van ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  27 Feb 2015

  On Monday, 2 March, the first of a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The first meeting will be held in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to 14:30.

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• Amsterdam Data Science receives AAA funding

  27 Feb 2015

  Amsterdam Data Science has received an investment from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) following a decision by the Executive Boards of VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• Cees de Laat heads KLM-COMMIT/ research into cyber attacks

  27 Feb 2015

  Prof. Cees de Laat, researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Informatics Institute, will head research into how cyber attacks can be automatically deterred by internet service provider consortiums and business ...

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• Livestream agenda-setting meeting at REC

  26 Feb 2015

  Watch the livestream of the agenda-setting meeting at Roeterseiland.

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• Update: agenda-setting meeting 26 February

  26 Feb 2015

  Because of increased interest, today’s agenda-setting meeting will be moved from CREA to REC C 1.04 to enable more people to attend. The meeting is meant table subjects for discussion with the Executive Board.

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• Student member in UvA Executive Board

  26 Feb 2015

  The UvA’s Supervisory Board has unanimously approved a proposal to appoint a student member to the Executive Board and faculty management. The deans also unanimously support the proposal.

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• Update: Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building. The door was forced open and a member of security assaulted. The Executive Board has laid formal charges.

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• Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building.

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• Statement Executive Board on Bungehuis eviction

  24 Feb 2015

  Issued by Louise J. Gunning-Schepers, president of the Executive Board

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• Executive Board regrets failed talks with Bungehuis protestors

  24 Feb 2015

  Talks between Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, the UvA’s Executive Board and the Bungehuis protestors have failed.

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• Horizon 2020 Grant for Dariu Gavrila

  23 Feb 2015

  Prof. Dariu Gavrila of the Informatics Institute received a H2020 grant for the PROSPECT project. PROSPECT (PROactive Safety for PEdestrians and CyclisTs) addresses vulnerable road user safety in the context of ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Bacterial Cell Biology

  19 Feb 2015

  VU University’s Dr Joen Luirink studies processes in bacterial cell envelopes. One of his projects focuses on a protein complex that plays a crucial role in the division of bacteria. Cell division is also the focus ...

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• The 10th Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award: take part!

  19 Feb 2015

  € 10,000 for most innovative and useful idea with commercial or societal impact

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• Giulia De Luca (SILS) wins Upcoming Scientist Award at Innovation for Health 2015

  17 Feb 2015

  Giulia De Luca, PhD candidate with the Molecular Cytology group at the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS), won the Upcoming Scientist Award at the Innovation for Health conference held in Amsterdam in ...

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• Three Faculty of Science researcher amongst Vici recipients

  17 Feb 2015

  Biologist Frank Takken (Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences) and physicists Florian Schreck (Institute of Physics, IoP) Femius Koenderink (IoP and FOM-institute AMOLF), all affiliated with the Faculty of Science ...

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• UvA to take part in Holland Scholarship

  16 Feb 2015

  The Holland Scholarship, a newly created Dutch scholarship programme, was officially launched on Monday, 16 February. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will be one of the participating institutions in the programme, ...

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• Getting 2 for 1: 'bonus' electrons in germanium nanocrystals can lead to better solar cells

  13 Feb 2015

  Researchers of the UvA's Institute of Physics, Foundation FOM, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals produce ...

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• Vici grant awarded to five UvA researchers

  13 Feb 2015

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a prestigious Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to five researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• Horizon 2020 Grant for Leo Dorst

  12 Feb 2015

  Dr Leo Dorst of the Informatcs Institute (research section: Intelligent Autonomous Systems) has obtained a H2020 grant for the GRAVITATE project: Ancient BRoken Artifacts CAn DigitAlly Be ReAssembled (ABRACADABRA). ...

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• Kordes Award for 2013 UvA Annual Report

  11 Feb 2015

  The University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) 2013 Annual Report has been awarded the 2014 Deloitte Kordes Award in the category education. The Kordes Award, which is named after the former president of the Court of Audit, was ...

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• Joost Frenken appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at VU and the UvA

  10 Feb 2015

  Prof. Joost Frenken (director of the ARCNL) has been appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at both VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• First proof of dark matter in innermost region of Milky Way

  9 Feb 2015

  An international team of researchers, which includes UvA physicist Gianfranco Bertone, has obtained the first observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, where our own ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: SOLARDAM

  9 Feb 2015

  The year started auspiciously for SOLARDAM: two years after its founding, the consortium received seed capital for eight postdocs. The initiators are anxious for them to start as soon as they can. 'We're all ...

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• PhD-candidate University of Amsterdam ‘gives face to science’

  6 Feb 2015

  Physicist Hugo Doeleman, PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Physics (IoP) and FOM-institute AMOLF is one of the new young researchers featured on the website Faces of Science. In his first ...

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• Take-off grant for alternative bioplastics

  4 Feb 2015

  Professor Gadi Rothenberg of the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry was awarded a first-phase valorisation grant by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) to try and bring to market the innovation of ...

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• Horizon 2020 Grants for Faculty of Science researchers

  3 Feb 2015

  Horizon 2020, the EU programme for research and innovation, has granted three Faculty of Science projects a total of more than EUR 1.5 million. These projects are concerned with large-scale database applications ...

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• Computer Science students successfully conduct web archeology

  3 Feb 2015

  A student team from the Master’s joint UvA-VU programme Computer Science succeeded in unlocking a unique piece of web archeology. For the course History of Digital Cultures they sank their teeth into Amsterdam’s ...

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• Anna’s Garden and Thicket nominated for best green initiative North Holland

  3 Feb 2015

  Anna’s Garden and Thicket, the nature- and horticultural area to be developed on Amsterdam Science Park, is nominated for the ‘Golden Bittern’: a prize for the best green initiative in the North Holland province. The ...

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• PhD in the spotlight: Jamie McLaren

  3 Feb 2015

  Canadian national Jamie McLaren will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 4 February. McLaren studied bird migration as a part of his doctoral research at the Institute for ...

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• In search of the origins of musicality

  2 Feb 2015

  Why do we have music? And what enables us to perceive, appreciate and make music? The search for a possible answer to these and other questions forms the backdrop to a soon-to-be released theme issue of Philosophical ...

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• Successful seminar on Solar Fuel Future

  29 Jan 2015

  "Our catalysts can beat nature" stated professor Licheng Sun from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology KTH. Sun was invited by the John van Geuns foundation for a mini symposium on Solar Fuel Future. It was ...

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• Molecules shed light on the secrets of friction

  29 Jan 2015

  Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have developed a new microscopy method that enables the visualization of nanoscale contacts between two ...

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• Amirhossein Habibian elected best Iranian engineering student in Europe

  29 Jan 2015

  Amirhossein Habibian, PhD student at the Informatics Institute, is elected as the best Iranian engineering student in Europe. The prize is awarded yearly by the Iranian government to reward academic excellence among ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling

  27 Jan 2015

  In 2007, chemists Evert Jan Baerends of VU University Amsterdam and Daan Frenkel of the University of Amsterdam decided it made sense for the two universities to collaborate more closely in the field of molecular ...

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• Bednets and malaria vaccines not always good combination in fight against malaria

  27 Jan 2015

  The use of malaria vaccines combined with a bednet can be counter-productive in some cases and can even exacerbate the problem. This follows research carried out by an international team led by Yael Artzy-Randrup ...

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• Jan de Boer new member of FOM's Executive Board

  25 Jan 2015

  As per 1 January 2015 IoP professor Jan de Boer has taken up a seat as member of the Executive Board of the FOM Foundation. He was already member of the Board of Directors as of 1 May 2014. He succeeds professor ...

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• Three exceptional objects discovered in nearby galaxy

  23 Jan 2015

  An international team of scientists, including Dr Jacco Vink of the University of Amsterdam, has discovered three exceptional objects in one of the neighbouring galaxies of our Milky Way. They found a superbubble, a ...

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• Geke van Velzen appointed secretary general UvA

  22 Jan 2015

  Geke van Velzen, secretary general of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA), has been appointed secretary general of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Van Velzen will combine both positions, ...

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• Kees Jalink, professor by special appointment of High-Resolution Microscopy

  22 Jan 2015

  Dr K. Jalink (1957) has been named professor by special appointment of High-Resolution Microscopy at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was established on behalf of the Society for the ...

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• Peter Schall, professor of Soft Condensed Matter Physics

  22 Jan 2015

  Dr P. Schall (1971) has been appointed professor of Soft Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Amsterdam Water Science consortium receives AAA funding

  20 Jan 2015

  The Amsterdam Water Science consortium has received start-up capital from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA). These funds will give VU University Amsterdam (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences) and the University ...

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• Professor Frank Linde leads consortium on astroparticle physics

  20 Jan 2015

  The General Assembly of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) appointed Professor Frank Linde (Nikhef/UvA-IoP) as its new chair on 9 January. APPEC is a consortium of 14 European research ...

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• PhD in the spotlight: Peter Demaeght

  20 Jan 2015

  Peter Demaeght (1984) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 23 January. During his doctoral research at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), he studied ...

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• Game Studies students participate in project to decrease social isolation among seniors

  20 Jan 2015

  Students of the interdisciplinary Game Studies Master's programme of the University of Amsterdam demonstrate their prototypes of applied games for reducing social isolation among the elderly. They demonstrate these ...

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• NETWORKS launches new website

  20 Jan 2015

  A year after being awarded a grant in the Gravitation (Zwaartekracht) programme, NETWORKS proudly presents its new website.

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• NWO Creative Industries Strategic Research grant for Maarten de Rijke

  19 Jan 2015

  Professor Maarten de Rijke has obtained à € 721,000.- grant for a Strategic Research proposal within the Creative Industries programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). De Rijke leads the ...

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• SOLARDAM consortium receives AAA funding

  13 Jan 2015

  The SOLARDAM consortium, which includes FNWI institutes IoP, HIMS and SILS, has received initial funding from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA). With this funding for SOLARDAM, VU and UvA have the unique ...

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• UvA researcher to go to New York with Rubicon grant

  13 Jan 2015

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Rubicon grant to the young researcher David van Dijk (Faculty of Science). He will carry out his research into the detection of resistant cells ...

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• Orangutan produces human-like sounds

  12 Jan 2015

  Orangutans have the ability to produce vowel and consonant-like sounds similar to those of human speech. This is the finding of new research conducted by an international team of scientists, among them researchers ...

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• New app lets you swipe through dark matter

  12 Jan 2015

  What is dark matter actually? Chances are that the answer to this question – and a lot more information – can be found in the new app ‘Dark Matter - Behind the Scenes of the Universe’. Developed by UvA researcher ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Amsterdam Data Science

  12 Jan 2015

  ‘The time is ripe for data science,’ says Maarten de Rijke, director of Amsterdam Data Science, a network organisation in which 300 Amsterdam-based scientists exchange knowledge and forge partnerships within and ...

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• UvA celebrates 383rd anniversary

  12 Jan 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) celebrated its 383rd anniversary (Dies Natalis) on Thursday, 8 January. Before delivering her opening address, Rector Magnificus Dymph van den Boom briefly spoke about the recent ...

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• Astronomer Sera Markoff appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society

  8 Jan 2015

  Dr Sera Markoff of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy has been appointed a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She received the honour for her research into compact objects that attract matter.

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• Self-propelling nanoparticles push larger objects together

  8 Jan 2015

  Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Wageningen predict the existence of a new effective force in active nanomaterials. In computer simulations they discovered the ability of randomly moving self ...

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• How an azobenzene molecule is switched by light

  7 Jan 2015

  The relatively simple azobenzene molecule enables the tuning of material properties by using light. Although azobenzene has ample applications in areas ranging from photopharmacology to molecular nanotechnology, its ...

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• Funding for 'Resistance to a destructive plant virus'

  6 Jan 2015

  Dr. Harrold van den Burg and Prof. Marcel Prins (Keygene) received funding for a research project (€ 700.000,-) by the Top Sector Horticulture and Starting Materials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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• HIMS PhD research leads to Very Important Paper in ChemBioChem

  5 Jan 2015

  A recent paper by Linde Smeenk in the journal ChemBioChem, summarizing her PhD research at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, has been designated as 'Very Important Paper'. The cover graphic of the ...

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• MISTI Global Seed Fund for physicist Waalewijn and colleagues

  3 Jan 2015

  UvA physicist Dr Wouter Waalewijn, together with his colleagues Prof. Iain Stewart (MIT) and Dr Frank Tackmann (DESY), received a grant from the MISTI Global Seed Fund. The grant is aimed at promoting and supporting ...

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• NWO and water companies will study environmental risks during shale gas extraction

  19 Dec 2014

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), together with KWR Watercycle Research Institute, have started a four-year research programme focussing on the environmental risks for water systems during ...

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• A toolbox for modelling stochastic molecular networks

  19 Dec 2014

  Modelling stochastic molecular networks such as polymers is quite a challenge since they are complex, flowing and changing systems. While a classical molecular dynamics approach works fine for simple networks with a ...

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• Students present glacier research to King Willem-Alexander

  18 Dec 2014

  Students Darko Radakovic and Rachael Chambers of the master Earth Sciences presented their glacier experiment to the Dutch king Willem-Alexander at the occasion of 50 years of European cooperation in space on 16 ...

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• Large water management project funded by NWO-STW

  18 Dec 2014

  On 15 December 2015 a large joint project of the ESS group of IBED and the Department of Geoscience and Engineering of TU Delft was funded in the WATER 2014 call of STW – NWO. Within the project lead researchers Timo ...

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• Pim de Voogt, professor of Chemico-Biological Interactions in Aquatic Ecosystems

  18 Dec 2014

  Dr W.P. de Voogt (1952) has been appointed professor of Chemico-Biological Interactions in Aquatic Ecosystems at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Peter de Ruiter, professor of Soil Systems Ecology

  18 Dec 2014

  Professor P.C. de Ruiter (1952) has been named professor of Soil Systems Ecology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Ronald Koes, professor of Developmental Genetics

  18 Dec 2014

  Professor R.E. Koes (1958) has been appointed professor of Developmental Genetics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Jos Baeten, professor of Theory of Computing

  18 Dec 2014

  Professor J.C.M. Baeten (1954) has been appointed professor of Theory of Computing at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. Baeten will be combining this part-time position with his duties as ...

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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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• Opening Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography

  27 Oct 2014

  On Tuesday, 11 November 2014, the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) in Amsterdam will be officially opened by Sander Dekker, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, and Martin van den ...

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• UvA and VU present degree certificates during joint ceremony

  27 Oct 2014

  On Wednesday, 29 October, the first joint degree certificates will be presented to students of the Bachelor's programme in Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam (VU).

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• MSc Logic graduate wins Unilever Research Prize 2014

  27 Oct 2014

  MSc Logic graduate Ciyang Qing will receive the Unilever Research Prize 2014.

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• United they stand: self-organisation makes mussel beds robust

  22 Oct 2014

  Natural ecosystems often develop distinct spatial patterns. Research from the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the ...

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• Faculty of Science students receive UvA-scholarships

  17 Oct 2014

  Nine science students at Faculty of Science receive this year an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship or an Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship. On Thursday, 9 October, the University of Amsterdam held a special certificate ...

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• National Sustainability Day: cricket on a cocktail stick

  17 Oct 2014

  Ever tasted a cricket? Last Friday, on National Sustainability Day, students, staff and anyone else interested had an opportunity to taste 'cricket on a cocktail stick'. It was also the day on which the UvA ...

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• UvA holds certificate ceremony for scholarship students

  14 Oct 2014

  On Thursday, 9 October, the University of Amsterdam held a special certificate ceremony to honour this year’s recipients of the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (AMS) and Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship (AES). The ...

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• Three ICT Horizon2020 grants for UvA researchers

  14 Oct 2014

  Yuri Demchenko and Zhiming Zhao, of the UvA Informatics Institute and Khalil Sima'an of the UvA Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, have each received a grant within the Horizon2020 ICT 2014-1 call. ...

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• Phd in the spotlight: Jesse Veenvliet

  13 Oct 2014

  Jesse Veenvliet (1983) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 31 October. Focusing on the characteristics of dopamine neurons, his doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute ...

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• How to raise photon energy with nanomaterials

  10 Oct 2014

  Dr Hong Zhang, associate professor at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, was invited to contribute a tutorial review to the highly regarded magazine Chemical Society Reviews. It will be published in a ...

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• Bert Vercnocke receives ASL Prize for Science and Technology

  7 Oct 2014

  Theoretical physicist Bert Vercnocke (UvA Institute of Physics) received the prize for his PhD thesis Hidden structures of black holes. Vercnocke worked on his thesis at the KU Leuven. The prize is granted once ...

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• Wieteke de Boer receives STW Simon Stevin Gezel Prize 2014

  7 Oct 2014

  On 2 October 2014 Wieteke de Boer was elected Simon Stevin Gezel 2014 by the visitors of the STW annual congress for her PhD research that she did at the UvA’s Institute of Physics.

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• Succes for Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling in computational sciences call

  3 Oct 2014

  Three proposals of chemistry researchers from the Amsterdam Universities were selected for the final matching phase of the ‘Computational Sciences for Energy Research' public-private partnership, a multi-million euro ...

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• Marijk van der Wende to step down as dean of Amsterdam University College

  2 Oct 2014

  As of 1 January 2015, Prof. Marijk van der Wende will be stepping down as dean of the Amsterdam University College (AUC), a joint excellence initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam ...

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• UvA climbs to 77th spot on the THE World University Rankings

  2 Oct 2014

  Building on its solid performance of recent years, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen to the 77th spot on the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2014-2015. Last year, the UvA was ranked ...

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• Royal honour for University Professor Johan van Benthem

  1 Oct 2014

  Prof. Johan van Benthem was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion upon his retirement as University Professor of Pure and Applied Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Friday, 26 September. Van ...

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• First Forensic PhD symposium

  1 Oct 2014

  On Friday, 24 October 2014 the CLHC - Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center - will host its first forensic PhD symposium. This one day event is organised to build an active network of PhD students who are fully or partly ...

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• Hans Westerhoff appointed Fellow of the International Society for Systems Biology

  30 Sept 2014

  Hans V. Westerhoff (UvA-SILS) has been appointed Fellow of the International Society for Systems Biology. At the awarding ceremony 16 September in Melbourne, Westerhoff and two other new fellows, Leroy Hood (ISB, ...

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• 2.8 million euro for research into epigenetics of hormone resistance in breast cancer

  30 Sept 2014

  The EpiPredict project, coordinated by Dr Pernette J. Verschure of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded a European grant of €2.8 million for epigenetic research into resistance to endocrine (hormonal) ...

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• UvA Annual Report 2013 available in English

  29 Sept 2014

  The University of Amsterdam recently issued its Annual Report for 2013 in English. In line with the UvA's previous annual reports, the Annual Report 2013 provides all the key facts and figures concerning teaching and ...

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• NWO Grant for research project Max Welling

  26 Sept 2014

  Max Welling, professor of Computer Science at the Informatics Institute, has been awarded a NWO grant together with Dr Laurens van der Maaten (TU Delft) for the call ‘Natural Artificial Intelligence’. The research ...

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• Physicist Nick de Jong receives Best Speaker award at E-MRS 2014

  25 Sept 2014

  At the recent Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Warsaw, PhD student Nick de Jong (UvA Institute of Physics) won the Graduate Student Award for the Best Oral Presentation in the ...

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• UvA spin-off Photanol partners with AkzoNobel

  25 Sept 2014

  Photanol, a cleantech corporate spin-off of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and AkzoNobel have agreed to collaborate on the development of sustainable technologies for chemical production. The aim of the ...

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• Homogeneous catalysis at extreme concentrations

  18 Sept 2014

  Using self-assembled molecular spheres, chemists of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have been able to study homogeneous transition-metal catalysis at very high catalyst concentrations. In the ...

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• Paul Planken, professor of Nanophotonics

  18 Sept 2014

  Professor P.C.M. Planken (1964) has been appointed professor of Nanophotonics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Peter de Ruiter to be appointed new IBED director

  16 Sept 2014

  Professor Peter de Ruiter will be appointed professor of Soil Systems Ecology at the UvA’s Faculty of Science and director of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). He will assume his duties ...

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• UvA spin-off company Euvision acquired by Qualcomm

  16 Sept 2014

  Euvision Technologies BV – a spin-off company of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) – has been taken over by Qualcomm, an international market leader in next-generation mobile chips. A specialist in search engine ...

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• UvA once again ranked best Dutch university in QS World University Rankings

  16 Sept 2014

  For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the highest placed Dutch university in the QS World University Rankings. The UvA has also risen in the overall rankings and now holds the 50th ...

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• Ermine moths singular in plant choice

  15 Sept 2014

  One species of moth can subsist on a particular plant type, while another can’t. Why? Katja Hora has been exploring the way in which ermine moths choose their host plant and, more in particular, the genetic ...

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• High Performance Computing course to start in January 2015

  12 Sept 2014

  From 2 until 31 January 2015, researchers from the University of Amsterdam and experts from the SURFsara national Supercomputing Center organise a course on ‘High Performance Computing and Big Data’. Researchers and ...

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• UvA and VU science faculties explore collaboration with TU/e

  12 Sept 2014

  On 8 September 2014, the Rectores Magnifici of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Prof. Dymph van der Boom, and of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Prof. Hans van Duijn, agreed to explore further ...

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• Zeno Geradts, professor by special appointment of Forensic Data Science

  10 Sept 2014

  Dr Z.J.M.H. Geradts (1967) has been named professor by special appointment of Forensic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was designated by Stichting Leerstoel ...

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• Kick-off for Sustainable Chemistry

  9 Sept 2014

  An exploding hydrogen filled balloon marked the kick-off for the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry last wednesday. The ceremonial ignition by Rector Magnificus Prof. Dymph van den Boom symbolized the boost ...

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• Sustainable Logistics Grant for Sindo Nunez Queija and Neil Walton

  7 Sept 2014

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded the grants within the theme Sustainable Logistics. Dynafloat, the project of which Sindo Nunez Queija and Neil Walton (KdVI) are co-applicants, ...

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• Three graduate schools receive NWO grants for young academic talent

  4 Sept 2014

  Three research schools with which the UvA is involved are each to receive 850,000 euros for the development of young academic talent. The schools concerned are the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, Yield, ...

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• UvA celebrates opening academic year with eye on Africa

  3 Sept 2014

  On Monday, 1 September, the University of Amsterdam celebrated the opening of the 2014-2015 Academic Year. Various speakers reflected on this year’s theme: 'Amsterdam in the wider world: Africa’.

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• First Horizon2020 granted to UvA for Quantum Simulation project

  1 Sept 2014

  Robert Spreeuw of the UvA’s Institute of Physics (IoP) is partner in the first Horizon2020 granted to UvA for the research project Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ).

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• NFI and UvA participate in research

  1 Sept 2014

  Dr. Pernette J. Verschure, UvA-SILS and prof. Ate Kloosterman, NFI receive research funding from the minestry of Security and Justice to study epigenetic changes of the DNA for forensic applications. In the coming ...

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• Amsterdam video search engine tested as the best

  26 Aug 2014

  The U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tested the video search engine developed by UvA researchers as the best during an evaluation that this institute conducts yearly.

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• UvA wins two silver medals and one bronze at international mathematics competition

  25 Aug 2014

  The UvA delegation won three medals at the 21st edition of the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC). Third-year mathematics and physics students Nastasha Wijers and Josha Box took home ...

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