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.

Denice van Herwerden wins poster prize at ISEAC-41

During the 41st International Conference on Environmental & Food Monitoring (ISEAC-41) held last week in Amsterdam, PhD student Denice van Herwerden presented a poster describing the open-access, open-source and ...
The UvA to celebrate its 392nd Dies Natalis

On Thursday, January 11, we will celebrate the birthday of the University of Amsterdam. This year's Dies Natalis will focus on the importance of multilingualism at the university and explore why a healthy mouth is ...
Control over friction, from small to large scales

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, even at large ...
NWO/CAS Green Water Processes grant for Victoria Degeler

As a co-applicant in a consortium of 7 research and industrial partners, Dr. Victoria Degeler has been awarded a grant for the project "Intelligent Wastewater Treatment: Distributed Digital Twin for Clean Water ...
Iron impurities affect electrochemical oxidation of glycerol on nickel-based electrodes

Researchers at the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry group of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam) have performed a systematic investigation into the influence of ...
How to find the best electrode for electrocarboxylation reactions

In a paper in Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, researchers at the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry group of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of ...
Integrating the power of photons and electrons

In a VIP paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam present a novel flow reactor for electrophotocatalysis (EPC) that uniquely ...
A circular solar fuel for sustainable energy storage

Dr Sonja Pullen of the research group for Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-Inspired Catalysis at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences was awarded € 105.000,- as a ‘PPS-allowance’ from the Ministry of ...
Electrochemical conversion of CO2 into sustainable plastic materials

The Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam is among twelve partners in seven countries that will cooperate in the four-year ...
Four UvA Faculty of Science researchers in the 'Highly Cited Researchers 2023' list of Web of Science

Clarivate Analytics, the company that currently manages the Web of Science, has announced the list of 'Highly Cited Researchers 2023'. This year's list includes four researchers from the UvA's faculty of Science: ...

Amsterdam Science Park Campus

The Faculty of Science is located at Amsterdam Science Park, one of the largest research hubs in Europe. Here, our researchers collaborate with colleagues from – among others – Nikhef, AMOLF and CWI.

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