GWFP researcher Dr. Jan-Simon Hennig wins Feodor-Lynen Fellowship
Hennig will be investigating thermal noise: one of the fundamental limitations in gravitational wave detectors.

Hennig will be investigating thermal noise: one of the fundamental limitations in gravitational wave detectors.
DKE’s Jerry Spanakis on responsible machine learning models, what algorithms can and can’t ‘understand’ and why that matters to all of us.
The Dutch Network of Women Professors announced the recipients of their annual travel fund earlier this month. Dr. Chiara Sironi (DKE) will use the funds to travel to China.
Myocardial regeneration is restricted to early postnatal life, when mammalian cardiomyocytes still retain the ability to proliferate. The molecular cues that induce cell cycle arrest of neonatal cardiomyocytes towards terminally differentiated adult heart muscle cells remain obscure.
Scientists based in the border area of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany will work together to gain more insight into the functioning of the microbiome: the trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that live in and on our bodies. To this end, the researchers are today launching...
Dr. Tijs Goldschmidt has been appointed Eugène Dubois chair for the year 2021. Professor Goldschmidt was born in Amsterdam, trained as a behavioural biologist in Amsterdam and Leiden and is a renowned writer on science and art.
The application deadline for the BSc Circular Engineering has been extended! For EU/EEA-students, you can now apply up to and including 1 August 2021.
Our Department exploits their academic findings towards rational therapy development for genetic and acquired forms of heart failure in the Dutch spin-off company Mirabilis Therapeutics BV that was founded in 2015.
Gerard van Rooij, professor of Plasma Chemistry, was the first PhD candidate of Ron Heeren, university professor and director of the M4I institute. Together they reflect on a pioneering period in which they took the first tentative steps in the development of imaging mass spectrometry.
The European Research Council today announced that it will award more than €2 million to Prof. Stefan Hild as part of its ERC Advanced funding scheme.