Utrecht University

“The risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known”, explains Prof Frank Biermann from Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and leader of the call for the Non-Use…

Cooperation between different stakeholders in Higher Education is becoming more relevant to enhance sustainable innovation, digital transformation, citizen wellbeing, equitable and inclusive societies, and economic development. This…

Music for emotion regulationDuring the Sound and Music Technology course, part of the Game and Media Technology Master's programme, Volk gave her students the task of compiling up an alternative, more diverse playlist. They did this using…

Commercials that make people feel a lump in their throat or a tear in the corner of their eye are just as effective, and sometimes even more effective, than commercials that make people laugh. This is what communication scientists Prof…

Bas Hendriks (1970) is financial director at NS Reizigers. He is also a supervisor at the Dutch Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (NCFS) and a member of the Supervisory Board of NS Insurance. He studied Econometrics in Tilburg and previously…

Cell therapy is an innovative treatment using living human cells, usually cells from the patient's own immune system. The immune cells are extracted from the blood and modified on a molecular level, allowing them to better recognise and…

For centuries, pieces of tissue (biopsies) have been taken from people (and also from animals) to see if cancer cells are present. This remains the only method of definitively determining whether someone has cancer, but there are also…

Reumer studied biology in Utrecht and did research in various fields of biology, including cytogenetics, taxonomy and vertebrate paleontology. He was previously the director of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum for 28 years.The…

There is insufficient certainty about the presence of ultra deep heat in the subsurface of Utrecht East for the further development of ultra-deep geothermal energy (UDG). This has been shown by seismic research carried out by Energie…

The need to reflect on the campus of the future has only increased due to the specific circumstances of the last two years. The lack of face to face meetings or informal (knowledge) exchange is visible in the evaluations and requires…