New IPN special interest group
Together with Paola Grosso, Professor of Multi-Scale
Networked Systems at the University of Amsterdam,
and Fernando Kuipers, Professor of Internet Science at
TU Delft, Alexandru Iosup, Professor of Massivizing ...
Faculty of Science
Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain. With education and research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, logic and computer science, we are fully immersed in the entire spectrum of the sciences.
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Do you know what you can do if you experience undesirable behaviour, or if you see it happening?
From today, you will be able to see posters and social media posts at the UvA that express experiences of social unsafety and undesirable behaviour in quotes. The campaign makes undesirable behaviour visible and ... -
Gerrald Lodewijk receives Rubicon grant from NWO
Gerrald Lodewijk has been awarded a Rubicon fellowship to work for two years in at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA) in the lab of Dr Ali Shariati. The work will focus on deciphering molecular mechanisms ... -
Klaas van Leest receives Dick Stufkens Prijs 2021
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2021 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Nicolaas Petrus (Klaas) van Leest for his thesis 'Open-Shell Cobalt Complexes ... -
UvA scientists develop fully solar-driven autonomous chemical mini-plant
Professor Timothy Noël and co-workers in the Flow Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a fully operational standalone solar-powered mini-reactor ... -
First recipients of AMCEL Awards
AMCEL, a joint initiative of the Amsterdam electrochemistry community, proudly announces the recipients of 2021 PhD and BSc thesis AMCEL awards in electrochemistry research. Each year, AMCEL awards a prize to the ... -
Daniel Bonn elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
The Council of Representatives of the American Physical Society has elected UvA physicist Daniel Bonn as a Fellow. The fellowship of the APS is a prestigious recognition of outstanding contributions to physics. -
Accelerate the process of drug discovery with the use of a new neural network
A research paper from Victor Garcia Satorras, Emiel Hoogeboom and Max Welling, from the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, recently got accepted to the ICML congress, the leading conference on ... -
Binary stars boost cosmic carbon footprint
A new study by astronomers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany shows that massive stars produce twice as much carbon when they have a binary ... -
Arnon Lesage and Floris Roelofsen from FNWI in finale of Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award
An expert jury, led by Gigi Wang, and the public have selected nine finalists for the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award from the entries from the Amsterdam universities and research institutes.
Education, research & valorisation
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Education
The Faculty of Science offers 11 Bachelors' programmes and 37 Master's programmes with various specialisations.Learn more about our education -
Research
Our research focuses on the major scientific challenges in modern society. To this end, our research institutes work together on leading multidisciplinary research themes.Learn more -
Valorisation
The value of research at the Faculty of Science is boosted by collaborations with application-oriented partners, ranging from start-ups to multinationals.Learn more
Research facilities
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Technology Centre
The Technology Centre supports research groups at the faculty in developing mechanical constructions, electronics, software and glass work for experimental set-ups.Learn more -
Facilities
Did you know there is a Computer Museum, a Greenhouse complex and observatoria at the Faculty of Science?Learn more
Smart & Green at Amsterdam Science Park
The Faculty of Science has identified Smart and Green as two important valorisation themes. In these videos researchers explain how being located at Amsterdam Science Park helps them to achieve their valorisation objectives.
