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A Dutch consortium in which UvA researchers Samaya Nissanke and Michael Wise are involved, as well as several members of Nikhef, received a €12 million Road Map grant that allows the consortium to become an important partner in the LISA…

A consortium led by the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) has been awarded nearly €18 million by research funding organization NWO for the next 10 years to develop and build instruments for the future European Extremely…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on 20 February that the NL-BioImaging consortium will receive major funding from the National Roadmap programme. The Leeuwenhoek Center for Advanced Microscopy (LCAM), a collaboration between the…

Are the highest-paid jobs with the highest prestige performed by the smartest people? No, say sociologists who used unique information about 59,000 men to uncover the connection between intelligence and wealth. From a salary of €60,000…

In April 2022, the Central Student Council (Centrale Studentenraad, CSR) called on the UvA to switch to a bank that does not finance fossil fuel products. An important step is now being taken this respect. The UvA will in the near future…

Disa Sauter, associate professor of Social Psychology, has received a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With the grant she will research non-verbal vocalizations such as laughing, shouting and sighing. The grant…

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), or Teflon, is known for its slippery and non-stick properties. This wonder material was discovered 85 years ago, and since then Teflon coatings have found many applications: they make pans non-stick,…

The Dutch research consortium LTER-LIFE, in which UvA-IBED researcher W. Daniel Kissling and UvA-IvI researcher Zhiming Zhao are involved, receives a 20 million euro grant from the National Roadmap funding for large-scale research…

There’s PFAS coming out of our taps. New research by Mohammad Sadia, PhD candidate at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) – University of Amsterdam (UvA) shows that drinking water produced from surface water…

UvA-IoP physicist Daniel Baumann's new textbook 'Cosmology' has won the PROSE Award of the Association of American Publishers. The book was selected as the best new book in the category 'Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology' and…