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Daniel Pérez Pinedo wins East-West Seed Graduation Prize for Plant Sciences
10 Dec 2020
Daniel Pérez Pinedo, graduate of the MSc Biological Sciences at the UvA, is the winner of this year’s East-West Seed Graduation Prize for Plant Sciences. Last week he received the young-talent graduation prize, worth ...
PhD mobility programme helps chemistry PhD candidates to go abroad
15 Sep 2020
The Holland Research School for Molecular Chemistry offers financial support to PhD candidates who have a ground-breaking idea for performing research at a foreign institution.
Master student Swetta Jansen wins Best Poster Prize
22 Oct 2019
Swetta jansen, Masters’student Computational Science, has won a Best Poster Prize for her poster presentation during the ninth International Meeting on Cerebral Autoregulation which was held on 12 and 13 September.
Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry awarded Dick Stufkens Prize 2019 to best PhD-thesis
15 Oct 2019
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2019 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry is awarded to Thom Hersbach of Leiden University. The Research School honours with this prize innovative ...
Marie Brands nominated for KNCV Golden Master Award 2019
24 Jul 2019
Marie Brands, who is currently a PhD student at the research group for Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-Inspired Catalysis of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, has been nominated for the 'Golden ...
Fruitful explorations of the circular economy during joint sustainability workshop
15 Apr 2019
On Thursday 4 April, the University of Amsterdam's Roeterseiland campus hosted the joint workshop 'Towards a Circular Economy' of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) and the UvA's Van 't Hoff ...
Faraday Discussions poster prize for Tessel Bouwens
2 Apr 2019
PhD student Tessel Bouwens of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has won the Poster Prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Faraday Discussion on Artificial Photosynthesis, held 25 - 27 ...
Dieuwertje Modder wins poster competition at national student symposium
26 Mar 2019
At the national chemistry student 'PAC symposium' held 7 March at Vrije Universiteit, chemistry master student Dieuwertje Modder has won the first prize in the 'Young KNCV' poster competition. With her poster, Modder ...
MSc Logic again voted as Top Rated Programme
11 Mar 2019
The Master’s programme Logic of the Faculties of Science and Humanities is again designated as ‘Top Rated Programme’ by the Universities Study Guide 2019.
Master’s students to present their research at leading Machine Learning conference
12 Feb 2019
Artificial Intelligence Master's students Luca Falorsi, Pim de Haan and Tim Davidson will give a plenary talk on 'Reparameterizing distributions' at the leading Machine Learning conference AISTATS, held between 16-18 ...
Students organise art exhibition: Depicting Science
5 Feb 2019
From 5 to 8 February you can visit the art exhibition Depicting Science in the central hall of Science Park 904. The exhibition was organised by students Carlijn Snoek, Fleur van Langen and Mabel Gray from the ...
Successful International Winter School MolSim-2019
23 Jan 2019
More than 70 PhD researchers from all over the world participated in 2019 edition of the 2-week winter school 'Understanding Molecular Simulations' (MolSim). Scientists from the Computational Chemistry group of HIMS ...
Best Paper Award for UvA students Gijs van Horn, Richard Olij, Joeri Sleegers and supervisor Daan van den Berg
22 Jan 2019
A paper based on three Bachelor's theses from UvA Artificial Intelligence students has received the Best Paper Award at the IARIA 2018 Data Analytics Conference. The theses were written by Gijs van Horn, Richard Olij ...
Young Talent awards for six UvA students
4 Dec 2018
On November 26, six UvA students received a Young Talent Incentive Award of 500 euros from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem.
Dick Stufkens Prijs 2018 awarded to chemical physicist Stefan Vuckovic
15 Oct 2018
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2018 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry will be awarded to Dr Stefan Vuckovic.The School honours with this prize innovative PhD-research in chemistry.
Amsterdam students to explore quantum-optical chemical catalysis
26 May 2018
As part of the Top Sector Chemistry Student Competition 2018, three Amsterdam students plan to apply quantum optical concepts to chemical catalysis and in doing so open up a new route for sustainable chemical ...
Amsterdam chemistry students excel at national student symposium
13 Mar 2018
The 'Young KNCV' poster competition at the national chemistry student 'PAC symposium', held 8 March at Utrecht University, was dominated by students from the joint Master's programme of the two Amsterdam universities ...
Sustainable Chemistry students print their way to new and powerful supercapacitors
13 Jun 2017
Students at the University of Amsterdam's Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry have tripled the specific capacitance of nitrogen-doped carbons: new materials with potential applications in fast energy storage ...
Amsterdam under the microscope during UvA Summer School
9 Mar 2017
Many of this year’s Summer School programmes offer students a unique chance to get to know Amsterdam from an academic perspective. These high-quality summer programmes allow international and local students to ...
Tom Keijer wins poster competition at national student symposium
6 Mar 2017
At the national chemistry student 'PAC symposium' held 2 March at Utrecht University, UvA master student Tom Keijer has won the first prize in the 'Young KNCV' poster competition. With his poster Keijer presented ...
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