Radboud University

According to the Landelijke Monitor Vrouwelijke Hoogleraren 2022 (Women Professors Monitor 2022), 29.2% of professors at Radboud University are women. The monitor uses 31 December 2021 as its reference date, at which time the number of…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named “BlackHolistic”, of 14 million Euro to a team of Dutch, British, Finnish, and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black holes. They will build the first ever…

The Hermesdorf Award and the Hermesdorf Talent Award are awarded every year to researchers who have dared to take risks. This year, the awards go to Alma Tostmann, Chantal Bleeker-Rovers, and Kiane de Kleijne, who had the courage this…

The METATOOL project received 4 million euros from the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the ‘Awareness Inside’ Pathfinder Challenge to investigate how robots can invent new tools as ancient humans did.A consortium of seven research…

Radboud University’s Radboud Radio Lab and the technology company ATG Europe will work even closer together to build a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. This cooperative venture is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA)…

Six researchers at Radboud University receive a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). This 1.5 million euro grant gives them the opportunity to form their own research groups.ERC Starting Grants are annually awarded to…

Reykjavik University joins NeurotechEU, the European University of Brain and Technology, of which Radboud University is one of the founding partners and the coordinating university.NeurotechEU facilitates the exchange of education,…

People with depression benefit from contact with fellow sufferers. Such contacts can in fact contribute to recovering from depression. That was shown in the PhD research done by Dorien Smit, who will defend her thesis at Radboud…

After a busy day at the office, many people collapse onto the sofa instead of getting some exercise. The mechanism behind this phenomenon is what Sven van As explored in his PhD thesis, which he is defending at Radboud University on 2…

General practitioners regularly see patients with persistent physical symptoms (PPS) that have no clear explanation. These patients often feel misunderstood. But the researcher Inge Stortenbeker, who will receive her PhD from Radboud…