University of Groningen

A group of fifty researchers and as many tourists led by Maarten Loonen of theArctic Centre of the UG is currently sailing around the island of Edgeøya onSpitsbergen. This second Scientific Expedition Edgeøya Svalbard (SEES) aims togather…

A team led by Ben Feringa, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Groningen, and Depeng Zhao of Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China) has created a unidirectional molecular motor that runs on chemical fuel, just like…

Two years later than planned as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, Maarten Loonen of the Arctic Centre of the UG has once again set sail for Spitsbergen to embark on a second, large-scale ‘SEES expedition’. Fifty researchers and…

Last November, the University of the North presented its knowledge agenda. This year, three roadshows will be organized in the northern provinces to allow stakeholders to familiarize themselves with the ambitions and activities of the…

The Dutch Top Sector Life Sciences and Health aims to promote and stimulate new public-private partnerships to undertake research and development projects in the life sciences. In this scheme, Reinoud Gosens’ proposal has been awarded a…

The KWF Dutch Cancer Society has awarded two UG researchers funding for their research into cancer. Marco Demaria and Anika Nagelkerke are among the 21 researchers working on the ‘Exploration’ project. This project is a collection of…

Good news for prof. dr. Bert Scholtens, prof. dr. Klaus Hubacek, dr. Frans Sijtsma and the Rudolph Agricola School for Sustainable Development/Sustainable Society.The UEF’s M20 PhD Program has provided a first round of grants worth…

The UG awarded three different prizes to excellent researchers and students during the Ceremony of Merits on 1 July 2022. The Gratama Science Award for young, promising researchers was awarded to Dr Hamidreza Kasaei (Faculty of Science…

In many research projects, UG academics hit the boundaries of computing. They have to deal with increasing amounts of data to be processed and the corresponding necessary computing power. To execute large-scale computations that cannot be…

Oscar Kuipers of the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) and collaborating researchers Davide Grossi of the Bernoulli Institute and Yori Ong of the UMCG Centre for Dentistry and Oral Hygiene received a…