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Unlike a true solid, the ground we stand on is generally made of granules such as sand grains or pieces of rock. Deeper down in Earth’s crust, the same holds for the fault lines where two tectonic plates meet. These types of disordered…

Danique de Moor, PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Business School, and Julien Vos, who received his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine in 2023, have received Rubicon grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grants will allow De…

For the seventh year in row, the UvA occupies 1st place worldwide in the field of Communication & Media Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. ACTA, the joint dentistry faculty of the UvA and VU, also scored…

Human behaviour plays a major role in the creation of a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment for all. But promoting the type of behaviour that makes such an environment possible is quite challenging. ‘There is no single button…

In recent years, the landscape of political campaigning has undergone a digital revolution, marked in particular by the rise of microtargeting techniques. As the practice has spread, it has faced increasing scrutiny and regulation,…

Dr Jocelyne Vreede of the Computational Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has recently been awarded funding as part of the Marie Curie doctoral network MeChaNiSM. This will enable her to appoint two…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to UvA academics Prof. Tobias Blanke, Prof. Stefania Milan and Dr Don Weenink. The grants, which amount to 2.5 million euros per project, are awarded on the…

Despite a European blockade of Russian media outlets spreading propaganda, their content is deviously ending up with European citizens. UvA researchers Richard Rogers, Kamila Koronska and Lukrecija Neverovskaja discovered during the…

In our society, one in four people suffer from a brain disorder. ‘For many brain disorders, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying them,’ says consortium leader Inge Huitinga, professor by special appointment of…

A team of astronomers, including several Dutch scientists, has, for the first time, measured the speed of a jet of gas ejected from a neutron star. The gas in the jet was found to move at only a third of the speed of light. The…