News

• 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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