Phd in the spotlight
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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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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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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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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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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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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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PhD in the Spotlight: Priscilla Pani
22 Aug 2014
On 10 September, Priscilla Pani (b. 1986) will be awarded her doctorate at the UvA. As part of her doctoral research at the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef), ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Joris Borgdorff
19 June 2014
Joris Borgdorff (1984) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the UvA on 3 July. During his doctoral research at the Informatics Institute (IvI), he researched what is needed to enable supercomputers to carry out ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Hanneke Brust
11 June 2014
Hanneke Brust (1986) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the UvA on 25 June. As part of her doctoral research at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), Brust made chemical profiles of ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Merrin Whatley
1 May 2014
The New Zealander Merrin Whatley (born 1980) will be receiving her doctorate at the UvA on 13 May. Her doctoral research at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) found that the plants and ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Bert van de Kooij
8 Apr 2014
On 22 April, Bert van de Kooij (born 1983) will be awarded his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). As part of his doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) and the Netherlands ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Lucas Ellerbroek
1 Mar 2014
On 14 March Lucas Ellerbroek (b. 1984) will be awarded his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). As part of his doctoral research at the Anton Pannekoek Institute (API), Ellerbroek researched the ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Sietse van der Post
24 Jan 2014
Sietse van der Post (b. 1981) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 7 February. His doctoral research at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) focused on ...
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Phd in the spotlight: Bruno Loff
7 Jan 2014
On 21 January Bruno Loff (b. 1984) will be awarded his doctorate at the UvA. During his doctoral research at the Institute for Language, Logic and Computation (ILLC), he shed light on what’s known as the knapsack ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Jochem Liem
12 Dec 2013
Jochem Liem (b. 1981) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 19 December. As part of his doctorate research at the Informatics Institute, he developed a new software program for ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Thijs Coenen
6 Nov 2013
Thijs Coenen (b. 1980) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 20 November. While conducting his research at the Anton Pannekoek Institute (API), he discovered two new radio ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Niels Anders
17 Oct 2013
On 31 October, Niels Anders (1983) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). During his PhD research at the Institute For Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), he has developed ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Paul Gruntjes
13 Sept 2013
On 27 September, Paul Gruntjes (1981) will be awarded his doctorate at the UvA. His doctoral research at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI) involved developing new methods for quickly and ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Niek Wit
17 June 2013
On 1 July, Niek Wit (b. 1984) will be awarded a doctorate by the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) examined ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Alma Itzel Olivos Suárez
21 May 2013
On 4 June Alma Itzel Olivos Suárez (1983) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the UvA. As part of her research at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), she made a detailed survey of the ...
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Spotlight on doctoral research: Milena and Jelena Smolic
3 Apr 2013
On 17 April, the sisters Milena (1982) and Jelena (1981) Smolic defended their doctoral theses at the Institute of Physics (IoP). As part of their research, they developed new formulas that can prospectively be used ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Gillian Kopittke
20 Mar 2013
On 3 April, Gillian Kopittke of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) will obtain her doctorate degree. Her research has revealed that the soil of the heath at Oldebroek (the Netherlands) is ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Rick Quax
1 Mar 2013
On 14 March, Rick Quax (b. 1985) will receive his doctorate degree from the Informatics Institute (IvI), where he has developed a new theory to predict how complex systems function. He has discovered that in the ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Clemens Heilmann
1 Feb 2013
On 15 February Clemens Heilmann (1984) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the UvA . During his research at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) he mapped out the cell wall of the pathogenic Candida ...
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New ‘PhD in the Spotlight’ section
22 Jan 2013
A new section entitled ‘PhD in the Spotlight’ has been launched on the Faculty of Science (FNWI) website this month. It features an FNWI scientist who explains the research for which he or she will obtain a PhD that ...
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PhD in the Spotlight: Wieteke de Boer
15 Jan 2013
On 30 January, Wieteke de Boer (1983) will defend her doctoral thesis at the UvA, presenting the finding that silicon nanocrystals are capable of emitting visible light. De Boer did her research at the Institute of ...
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Youngest PhD student to receive doctorate
13 Dec 2012
On Thursday, 13 December 2012, Floor Sietsma defended her PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). At age 20, she is the youngest person in the Netherlands to ever receive the doctorate.
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