The Master's programme Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics is closely linked to the Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (API) of the University of Amsterdam.

API:

• was founded in 1921
• has a long track record of world leading research
• has a staff that is very international in composition
• has a informal and open atmosphere
• participates in NOVA, the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy, in which astronomers of the Dutch universities work closely together
• specialises in research connected with the life cycle of stars: from the birth of stars and planetary systems to the habitability of planets and the late stages of stellar evolution, including the physics connected with neutron stars and black holes, their formation mechanisms and deaths (e.g. supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, gravitational wave mergers)
• is closely involved with the most advanced international observing facilities, both ground based facilities from the radio to the optical (e.g. The Low Frequency Array—LOFAR based in the Netherlands, The Very Large Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile) and in space (e.g. Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, XRISM, NICER)
• performs simulations with state of the art supercomputers (our campus houses SURF, the premier data and computing hub of the Netherlands)
• implements machine learning and statistical techniques in their astrophysical data processing and analysis