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Gas halo shows how exoplanets are slowly losing their atmospheres
10 Dec 2018
Two teams of astronomers, amongst whom Lorenzo Pino from the University of Amsterdam, have discovered how hot gas giant planets are shrouded in large halos of tenuous helium gas, suggesting that they are slowly ...
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PhD project in police lab
6 Dec 2018
The criminal justice system in The Netherlands is facing the challenge of having to correctly identify an increasing number of new illicit drugs. To provide accurate and valuable chemical information in criminal ...
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UvA biologists discover important regulator of tomato hairs
6 Dec 2018
Tomato plants protect themselves against herbivorous insects with the help of tiny hairs. A team of biologists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), supervised by dr. Rob Schuurink, in collaboration with Rijk ...
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Historical climate important for soil responses to future climate change
5 Dec 2018
Researchers of the University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with colleagues from the Lund University in Sweden, examined how 18 years drought affected billions of vital bacteria hidden in the soil beneath our feet. ...
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Zapping neurons to life with infrared light
5 Dec 2018
The ability to control neurons by switching them ‘on and off’ at will is an important goal in the field of neuroscience. Amsterdam researchers, together with colleagues from Germany and the US, have developed a novel ...
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Interdisciplinary biotechnology course wins 2019 Create a Course Challenge
5 Dec 2018
The third UvA Create a Course Challenge took place on Thursday, 29 November. This year's jury award went to 'Biotechnology: from pharma to Frankenstein'. According to the jury, this is a 'wonderful course with ...
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Young Talent awards for six UvA students
4 Dec 2018
On November 26, six UvA students received a Young Talent Incentive Award of 500 euros from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem.
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Cum Laude for chemistry PhD graduate Gaston Richelle
4 Dec 2018
On Friday 30 November 2018 Gaston Richelle of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry group at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences successfully defended his PhD thesis on 'Multicyclic peptides manufactured via ...
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UvA will be key ICT partner in European project ENVRI-FAIR
30 Nov 2018
Zhiming Zhao from the Systems and Networking Lab, Informatics Institute, is representing the UvA in the ENVRI-FAIR (ENVironmental Research Infrastructures building Fair services Accessible for society, Innovation and ...
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Zhiming Zhao receives grant for EU project about blockchain and social media
30 Nov 2018
The informatics group led by Zhiming Zhao from the Systems and Networking Lab, will contribute to this project that aims to simplify the creation of open and agile social media ecosystems with trusted participation ...
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Rajamani Krishna listed among 'Most Influential Scientific Minds'
30 Nov 2018
Professor Rajamani Krishna of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences features in the 2018 list of the world’s 'Most Influential Scientific Minds' compiled by Clarivate Analytics. ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to four UvA researchers
29 Nov 2018
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Consolidator Grants to anthropologist Shanshan Lan, legal expert Benjamin van Rooij, computational linguist Raquel Fernández and medical biologist/data ...
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Photograph of Vincent van Gogh is actually of his brother Theo
29 Nov 2018
A photograph that was long thought to be of the 13-year-old Vincent van Gogh has now been proven to be a portrait of his brother Theo van Gogh, aged 15. This discovery is the result of new, in-depth research ...
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Flexible robotics for food production
29 Nov 2018
Robots that automatically harvest tomatoes or package biscuits in boxes of various sizes are now becoming a reality. Theo Gevers, professor Computer Vision is involved in this project.
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Aquatic macroinvertebrates unable to find restored streams
28 Nov 2018
The channelized streams in our landscape are slowly restored into the original meandering streams that are naturally present in the Netherlands. These restoration projects are important to keep the streams functional ...
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Amber Woutersen wins East-West Seed Graduation prize for Plant Sciences
28 Nov 2018
Amber Woutersen, graduate of the MSc Biological Sciences at the UvA, is the winner of this year’s East-West Seed Graduation prize for Plant Sciences. On Monday she received the young-talent graduation prize, worth ...
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1.2 million for project to limit bird mortality by wind farms
27 Nov 2018
In the transition to sustainable energy, the Dutch government is strongly committed to building wind farms at sea. But these wind parks are not completely environmentally friendly: every year probably thousands of ...
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Special issue of Journal of Statistical Physics devoted to Complex Networks
26 Nov 2018
A special issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics that has been published recently is devoted to Complex Networks. The idea for this special issue arose from the outreach activities of the Gravitation Programme ...
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Amsterdam Science magazine issue # 8
22 Nov 2018
The eighth edition of Amsterdam Science magazine is out. Read it online or take a copy in the hall, and find out more about what scientists in Amsterdam are working on and inspired by.
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Three UvA researchers named members of The Young Academy
22 Nov 2018
UvA researchers Saskia Bonjour, Helmer Helmers and Selma de Mink have been named members of The Young Academy of the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2019, these UvA academics, together with seven ...
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