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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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