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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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• 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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• Computer simulation of molecular mazes

  22 Aug 2014

  Novel materials may pave the way towards more efficient chillers and towards new separation methods for fluorocarbon refrigerant molecules. Professor Rajamani Krishna of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular ...

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• Modification of palladium reactivity results in efficient amine synthesis

  20 Aug 2014

  Chemists at the van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have succeeded in transferring base metal reactivity onto a complex of the noble metal palladium. This has enabled selective amination reactivity, ...

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• Kick-off Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry

  15 Aug 2014

  On 3 September 2014 the University of Amsterdam celebrates the kick-off of its Research Priority Area (RPA) Sustainable Chemistry.

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• Lenny Taelman, professor of Algebraic Geometry

  14 Aug 2014

  Dr L. Taelman (1980) has been appointed professor of Algebraic Geometry at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science (FNWI).

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• Rising CO2 levels will intensify algal blooms across the globe

  14 Aug 2014

  Rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere will stimulate harmful algal blooms at a global level. This warning is issued by UvA scientists Jolanda Verspagen and Jef Huisman on the basis of new mathematical models, ...

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• Stan Bentvelsen new director of Nikhef

  14 Aug 2014

  Professor Stan Bentvelsen (University of Amsterdam / Nikhef) has been appointed director of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef with effect from 1 December 2014. He succeeds professor Frank Linde, ...

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• Alfons Hoekstra appointed as Professor Computational Biomedicine at ITMO

  14 Aug 2014

  Dr. Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam, research group SCS) has been appointed as Professor Computational Biomedicine at the national research University Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics ...

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• Towards more efficient solar cells

  13 Aug 2014

  A layer of silicon nanocrystals and erbium ions may help solar cells to extract more energy from the ultraviolet (UV, high-energy) part of the solar spectrum. Experimental physicists from the University of Amsterdam, ...

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• Fenrong Liu, professor by special appointment in the Amsterdam-China Logic Chair

  13 Aug 2014

  Prof. F. Liu (1975) has been named professor by special appointment in the Amsterdam-China Logic Chair at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Science (FNWI). This is a new chair established by the Amsterdam ...

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