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Albert Polman receives ERC Advanced Research Grant
22 Apr 2021
Albert Polman, professor of nanophotonics and photovoltaics at UvA and AMOLF group leader, has received an Advanced Research Grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council. Polman will use the grant to ...
Divesting fairly from fossil fuels around the world
22 Apr 2021
To combat global warming, we have to stop using fossil fuels. This will have a major impact on both investors in related industries who will have to write off trillions of dollars and developing countries that had ...
Advancing society through inclusive AI technology
22 Apr 2021
Sennay Ghebreab, chair of the group: ‘AI should be working for people, instead of people working for AI.’
How does Gecko tape work?
21 Apr 2021
To solve practical issues, sometimes all we have to do is study nature. An often quoted example is that of the gecko, a small animal known for the phenomenal adhesive strength in its feet, which allows it to walk on ...
Promoting cancer screening through social media analyses
20 Apr 2021
Early identification through screening is a crucial element in reducing the burden of cancer. But many people don’t participate in the mass screening offered and recommended by the Dutch state. How do people arrive ...
Which student emotionally affects the teacher?
20 Apr 2021
A teacher can experience a lot of joy through contact with students, but can also feel frustration when students show disruptive behaviours. Education scientist Janneke de Ruiter studied the emotional interactions ...
Changes to European meteorological data policies threaten aerial biodiversity monitoring
15 Apr 2021
A group of international scientists, including UvA professor Judy Shamoun-Baranes, warns that changes to European meteorological data policies threaten biodiversity monitoring as they make vital data unavailable. In ...
Water and quantum magnets share critical physics
14 Apr 2021
Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these so-called phase transitions aren’t smooth, but at high pressure their discontinuous nature is smoothed out. An international team of ...
Tremendous Boost for Quantum Research in the Amsterdam Ecosystem
14 Apr 2021
Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation that was launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherland’s National Agenda for Quantum Technology (NAQT), has been awarded €615 million from ...
Four UvA researchers receive NWO-Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros
14 Apr 2021
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros to four prominent UvA researchers Rene Gerritsma, Erik Rietveld, Floris Roelofsen and Chris Slootweg. The ...
Working on search engines with a modern artificial intelligence perspective
14 Apr 2021
Evangelos Kanoulas, chair of the group: ‘We develop machine intelligence and augment it with human intelligence to help people, locate, and act on, the information they need.’
Chris Slootweg receives Vici grant
14 Apr 2021
Associate professor Dr Chris Slootweg at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded an NWO Vici grant of 1.5 million euros to develop novel chemical routes for ...
Research organisations and commercial parties start work on developing the new Amsterdam Data Exchange
14 Apr 2021
AMS-IX, deXes, SURF, the Amsterdam Economic Board and the University of Amsterdam have begun to develop the new Amsterdam Data Exchange (AMdEX): a neutral, non-commercial, digital infrastructure, which will allow ...
New: Direct link to PDF for articles in CataloguePlus
13 Apr 2021
Would you also like to get the link to the accompanying PDF at a glance when you find an article in CataloguePlus? The LibKey tool makes this possible for a large number of articles. The Library has a trial license ...
Researchers paint portrait of Marie Curie in semiconductor
13 Apr 2021
Amsterdam researchers have developed a novel technique for spatially controlled patterning of semiconductors with tuneable optoelectronic properties. As a proof of principle, Lukas Helmbrecht and Wim Noorduin ...
Broadening and internationalisation: 20th anniversary Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the UvA
8 Apr 2021
This month, the UvA and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies reflect on the 20th anniversary of the study and research programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands. What once ...
Two new AI research projects awarded seed funding
8 Apr 2021
The UvA’s research priority area Human(e) AI has awarded seed funding to two research projects following its third annual call for funding. One project will investigate the conditions under which an autonomous agent ...
Tackling multimedia data with AI techniques
7 Apr 2021
Marcel Worring, chair of the group: ‘Our group brings multimedia research together in a unique way in the Netherlands and beyond.'
A “Safe and Just corridor” for planet and people
7 Apr 2021
For the first time, the Earth Commission has brought together the complexity of humans living on Earth in a framework that defines a challenging and fundamental core pillar for their work: how to determine what’s ...
Important step towards full circularity of SusPhos process
2 Apr 2021
Researchers at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have taken an important step towards full circularity of phosphate recycling in the SusPhos process. In a project financed by a 'Gouden KIEM' grant from ...
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