Veni, Vidi, Vici, awarded from 2015-2020

2020

Vici

• Prof. M. (Matthias) Heinemann - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Unvraveling the metabolic clock of the cell
• Prof. F. (Fanny) Janssen (FRW) - Faculty of Spatial Sciences - Future socioeconomic inequality in mortality
• Prof. G. (Giovanni) Maglia - Faculty of Sciene and Engineering - Next-Next-generation nanosensor for home diagnostics
• Prof. J.G.M. (Judith) Rosmalen - Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG - Symptom sensitivity
• Prof. L.M. (Liesbeth) Veenhoff - Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG - Poor old pores

Vidi

• Dr Kerstin Bunte - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Transparent Artificial Intelligence
• Dr David van der Linden - Faculty of Arts - Peacebuilding in Early Modern France
• Dr Sebastiaan Mathôt - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Tuning the senses – how cognition shapes sensation from the start
• Dr Else Starkenburg - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Stories from the infant years of our Milky Way
• Dr Lingyu Wang - SRON, Faculty of Science and Engineering - Clashes between cosmic titans

Veni

• Dr I. (Ivana) Drienovská - Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMGC - Expanding the enzyme universe: a closer look at unnatural amino acid
• Dr E.M. (Elise) Jerschabek Laetz - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Examining how solar-powered slugs steal chloroplasts and survive starvation
• Dr E.C. (Eelco) Tromer - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Defying nuclear conventions: how parasites segregate chromosomes
• Dr Z.L. (Zoé) Christoff - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Social networks and democracy
• Dr J.H.M. (Jana) Declerq - Faculty of Arts - Talking about chronic pain — the discursive construction of the body in pain clinic consultations
• Dr C.G.F. (Christiaan) van der Kwaak - Faculty of Economics and Business - Unconventional monetary policy and financial crises
• Dr T. (Tom) Boot -Faculty of Economics and Business - Forecasting when it matters
• Dr B.M.H.P (Brenda) Mathijssen -Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society - Sustainable funeral practices in a multicultural context
• Dr B.C. (Björn) Mitzinneck -Faculty of Economics and Business - Collaboration models for the future: jointly getting the energy transition done
• Dr P. (Patrick) Deelen - Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG - The shared focal point of common diseases and rare diseases
• Dr A. (Anouk) van der Hoorn-Klingenberg - Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG - Saving the brain: improving proton therapy outcomes through innovating imaging
• Dr C.D. (Claudia) van Borkulo - FFaculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG - A multi-timescale network modelling framework: Integrating fast-changing mood states and slow-changing symptoms in mental disorders
• Dr V. (Veronica) Allen - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Following the molecules of life around young stars
• Dr N. (Nichole) Barry - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Measuring the glow from our Cosmic Dawn

2019

Vidi

• Dr Anastasia Borschevsky - Faculty of Science and Engineering - High accuracy calculations for fundamental research with atoms and molecules
• Dr Giulia Mancini - Faculty of Science and Engineering - De reactie van materialen op licht bekijken
• Dr Steffen Müller - Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence - Global points via locally analytic functions

Veni

• Dr D.V. (Daria) Zhernakova - UMCG, Genetics - What makes cardiometabolic syndrome different in men versus women?
• Dr J. (Jeffrey) Buter - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry - Tuberculosis treatment with a Trojan horse
• Dr B.M. (Brian) Hare - Faculty of Science and Engineering, KVI Center for Advanced Radiation Technology - Probing Lightning Dynimifs with LOFAR
• Dr L. (Loredana) Protesescu - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials - Nanomaterials for energy technologies
• Dr MGP (Monique) van der Wijst - UMCG, Genetics - Expecting the unexpected through diversity?
• Dr M.K. (Malgorzata) Wlodarczyk-Biegun - Faculty of Science and Engineering , Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials - Printing of complex structures for musculoskeletal repair
• Dr L.F. (Laura) Bringmann - UG Behavioural and Social Sciences - Changing networks: New models to detect changes in psychiatric disorders
• Dr J. Brouwer - UG Behavioural and Social Sciences - Back to Nightingale: A social network perspective on the development of professional commitment in nurses
• Dr J. (Julia) Costa López - UG Arts, International Relations - Inventing the People: ideas of community in late-medieval encounters along the African Atlantic
• Dr M. (Marta) Sznajder - UG Philosophy - In Inductive Logic, There Are No Morals: Carnap’s Philosophy of Scientific Reasoning
• Dr V.E. de Meijer - UMCG, Department of Surgery - Refurbishing human fatty livers to increase the donor pool for transplantation
• Dr G.A. Holtman - UMCG, Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine - Bringing diagnostic accuracy to primary care
• Dr H.M. van Loo - UMCG, Psychiatry - Genetic nurture – how parental genes influence their children’s risk of depression through the environment
  
  

2018

Vici

• Professor Chris van den Broeck - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Using gravitational waves to understand the nature of black holes
• Professor Syuzanna Harutyunyan - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Using Lewis acids to enable new chemical reactions
• Professor Johan Jonker - UMCG, Medical Biology - Targeting the ER stress response in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Professor Meike Stöhr - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Getting graphene ready for applications

Vidi

• Doctor Pratika Dayal - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Shedding light on the dark side of the Universe
• Professor Shirin Faraji - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Watching chemistry happen with light
• Doctor Tjisse van der Heide - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Small steps, giant leaps – Building coastal landscapes with spatially organizing plants
• Doctor Luis Valente - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Islands: natural laboratories of speciation and extinction
• Doctor Andreas Milias-Argeitis - Faculty of Science and Engineering - How do cells regulate the amount of protein they produce?
• Doctor Jorge Pérez Parra - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Unifying Correctness for Communicating Software
• Doctor Merel Keijzer - Faculty of Arts - Foreign language learning as a healthy aging tool
• Doctor Romana Schirhagl - UMCG, Faculty of Medical Sciences - High speed low sample volume electron spin resonance (μESR)
• Doctor Don van Ravenzwaaij - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Improving the reliability of biomedical research

Veni

• Doctor Laura Baams - RUG, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences -Not straight? Sexual orientation disparities in macro and micro-processes of youth victimization and mental health
• Doctor Sean P. A. Desjardins - RUG, Prehistory - The resilience of Inuit traditional life in Arctic Canada
• Doctor Maarten C. Eisma - RUG, Clinical Psychology - Grief’s paradox: approach and avoidance in prolonged grief disorder
• Doctor Remco Heesen- RUG, Knowledge science - Understanding Statistical Biases in Peer Review
• Doctor Bertus F. Jeronimus - RUG, Developmental Psychology - The lessons to be learned from happy neurotics
• Doctor Gerine M. A. Lodder - RUG, Sociology - The Proximity Project: Loneliness in Adolescence Explained by Social Relations and Social Appraisals
• Doctor Stephanie van der Steen - RUG, Remedial education - (How) Does animal assisted therapy work?
• Doctor Thom A. de Vries - RUG, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior - Pushing boundaries: Team boundary spanning in response to disruptions
• Doctor Kathryn Bebbington - RUG, GELIFES - How much do parents disagree over offspring care?
• Doctor Janne Ouwehand - RUG, GELIFES - Do non-breeding conditions constrain adaptation to climate change in avian migrants?
• Doctor Inge Holtman - UMCG, Department of Neuroscience - Role of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease
• Doctor Tamar Lok - NIOZ, Department of Coastal Systems - The ontogeny of migration: an interplay of genes and environment

2017

Vici

• Prof. D. (Deniz) Başkent - Faculty of Medical Sciences - It takes two to communicate: Voice perception and linguistic content

• Prof. U. (Ute) Bültmann - Faculty of Medical Sciences - Today’s youth is tomorrow’s workforce

• Prof. G.J. (Gerrit) Poelarends - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Greener medicines

• Prof. D.H. (Hedderik) van Rijn - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - The stopwatch in our brains

Vidi

• Dr. I.H. (Iris) Jonkers - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - Small changes, big effects
• Dr.ir. M.H. (Maaike) Oosterveer - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - Sugar: a jumpstart for cancer
• Dr. J.T.M.L. (Judith) Paridaen - Faculteit Medische Wetenschappen/UMCG - The individuality of stem cells
• Dr. A. Zhernakova - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - Breast milk as a missing link between mothers and their babies’ health
• Dr. P. D. (Daan) Meerburg - Faculty of Science and Engineering - The Cosmic Laboratory
• Dr. S. (Stephan) Trenn - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Analysis and Control of Switched Differential Algebraic Equations

Veni

• Dr A. (Anne) Benjaminse - UMCG, Department of Human Movement Sciences - Understanding motor learning to prevent ankle and knee injuries in sports: a novel approach
• Dr L. (Lynn) Boschloo - UMCG, Psychopathology and psychiatry - One size fits none: diversity in the symptomatology of patients is the key to targeted depression treatment
• Dr M. (Marleen) Damman - NIDI - Retirement of the solo self-employed
• Dr. L.L. (Laura) Govers - RUG, GELIFES - Global change and marine plant diseases
• Dr. R. (Ronnie) Hermens - RUG, Philosophy - Did curiosity kill the cat?!
• Dr. G. (Gijs) Huitsing - RUG, Sociology - Network Interventions in the Peer Context
• Dr. A. (Artūras) Juodis - RUG, Economics and Business - We do not live in a bubble: economic shocks in misspecified panel data models
• Dr. C.J. (Casper) van der Kooi – Faculty of Science and Engineering - How do flowers get their colours – and to what end?
• Dr. N. (Namkje) Koudenburg - RUG, Social Psychology - The Communication Model of Cultural Change
• Dr. C. (Clemens) Mayer - RUG, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry - Making enzymes to order
• Dr. C.P. (Cristina) Paulino - RUG, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute - Redefining concepts of membrane transport mechanism
• Dr. W. (Ward) Romeijnders - RUG, Economics and Business - Planning for the unknown
• Dr. T.N. (Terrin) Tamati - UMCG, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - More than words: Uncovering the effects of talkers’ voices on real-life speech perception by cochlear implant users
• Dr. N. (Niek) Verweij - UMCG, Cardiology - Complex genetics of exercise electrocardiography
• Dr. J. (Jorrig) Vogels - RUG, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen - Are people egocentric when they talk?
• Dr. C. (Carsten) Wloka-Tjalsma - RUG, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology - Small pores, big sensors

2016

Vici

• Professor Marco Fraaije – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - New enzymes, new possibilities
• Professor Bernard Nijstad - Economics and Business - Creativity in Organizations

Vidi

• Doctor K. (Katalin) Barta - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Lignin waste to valuable chemicals
• Doctor A.J. (Arnold) Boersma - Faculty of Science and Engineering - How full is a cell?
• Doctor M.D. (Martin) Witte - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Molecular tools for phospholipases
• Doctor E. (Emar) Maier - Faculty of Philosophy - The language of story and imagination
• Doctor F. (Floor) Rink – Faculty of Economics and Business - Supervising top-managers: Internal or External?
• Doctor S. (Susanne) Scheibe -  Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Getting better with age?
• Professor S. (Sarthak) Misra - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - SAMURAI (Steering Acuated Probes for Targeted Interventions)
• Doctor G. (Guido) Krenning - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - Identity crisis in a failing heart
• Doctor M.A. (Morris) Swertz - Faculty of Medical Sciences/UMCG - Scalable ‘big data’ methods towards personalized genome diagnostics

Veni

• Doctor Y. (Yanan) Wang (f), University Medical Center Groningen - Pediatrics - Dissecting the effects of brown adipose tissue on the vessel wall
• Doctor B.D. (Daan) Westenbrink (m), UMCG - Cardiology - Energy crisis in the failing heart
• Doctor A.A. Verhaegh (Sander) (m), RUG – Philosophy - Matter over mind: Skinner, Quine, and the Heyday of Behaviorism
• Doctor S. (Saeedeh) Farokhipoor (f), RUG - Physics - Information storage at the nano-scale
• Doctor M.T.C. (Marthe) Walvoort – Faculty of Mathemetics and Natural Sciences - Attacking the bacterial sweet spot
• Doctor S.M. (Simon) Friederich - University College Groningen - Are there other universes?
• Doctor L. (Leah) Henderson - Faculty of Philosophy - Weighing evidence reliably
• Doctor T. (Tamer) Nawar – Faculty of Philosophy - Relativism in Ancient Philosophy
• Doctor R.P. (Rocco) Palermo – Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies - Beyond rivers of Babylon: Rural Landscape and Settlements in Hellenistic Mesopotamia
• Doctor D.C. (Doina-Cristina) Rusu – Faculty of Philosophy - Manipulating Spiritual Matter. How did Early Modern Science Become Experimental?

2015

Vici

• Professor J. (Johan) Bos - Faculty of Arts, Computational Semantics - Lost in Translation - Found in Meaning
• Professor A (Amina) Helmi - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - Galactic Archaeology in the Gaia era: Discovery and characterization of fossil records to uncover the history and distribution of mass of the Milky Way
• Professor ir. D.J.M. (Thea) Hilhorst  - Faculty of Arts, Globalisation Studies Groningen - When disasters meet conflict. Disaster response of humanitarian aid and local state and non-state institutions in different conflict scenarios.
• Professor M.C. (Marcel) Timmer- Faculty of Economics and Business, Global Economics and Management - Mondiale Waardeketens: een nieuw perspectief op wereldwijde handel, banen en inkomensongelijkheid
• Professor R. (René) Veenstra - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, ICS Research School - Anti-bullying programs 2.0: Tailored interventions to minimize bullying
• Professor M.A.W. (Marc) Verheijen - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Astronomy - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - The panoramic Perspective on Gas and Galaxy Evolution

Vidi

• Professor M. (Ming) Cao- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Discrete Technology and Production Automation - Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen - An evolutionary approach to coordination of self-interested agents
• Doctor T.A.C. (Tamara) Witschge - Faculty of Arts, Journalism Studies and Media - Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies - Journalistic entrepreneurship in action
• Doctor A.K.H. (Anna) Hirsch - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Bio-organic Chemistry — Stratingh Institute for Chemistry - A faster route to new drugs
• Doctor E. (Edwin) Otten - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Molecular Inorganic Chemistry - Stratingh Institute for Chemistry - Cheap elements as the basis for catalysts
• Doctor A. (Albert) Guskov - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Enzymology - Gron Inst Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology - Shedding new light on metal transport
• Doctor W.C. (Wiktor) Szymanski - Faculty of Medical Sciences, Radiology - General - Controlling drugs with light
• Professor H.J. (Hiddo) Lambers Heerspink - Faculty of Medical Sciences, Clinical pharmacy & pharmacology - Why do patients with type 2 diabetes react differently to treatments?

Veni

• Doctor H.T. (Han Thomas) Adriaenssen - Faculty of Philosophy - Descartes op de proef gesteld: tegengeluiden in de Gouden Eeuw
• Doctor A. A. (Andreas) Bastian - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Fighting multidrug-resistant bacteria
• Doctor J.P. (Jelmer) Borst- Faculty of Science and Engineering - Hoe het brein ingewikkelde vraagstukken oplost
• Doctor J. R. (Jochem) de Bresser - Faculty Economics and Business - De rol van verwachtingen in economische modellen
• Doctor D.M. (Dorina Maria) Buda - Faculty of Spacial Sciences - Tourism in Conflict Places: A Study of the Emotional Dynamics of Dark Tourism in the Palestinian West Bank
• Doctor M. (Marco) Caracciolo - Faculty of Arts - Ongewone vertellers in hedendaagse fictie
• Doctor R. (Rudolf) S.N. Fehrmann- Facultty Medical Sciences - Analyseren van 'big data' ter verbetering van gepersonaliseerde behandeling van kankerpatienten
• P.W.J.M. (Pim) Frederix - Institute for Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology - Nieuwe peptides voor food, farma en functionele materialen
• Doctor K.A. (Klaske) Glashouwer - Faculty Behavioural and Social Sciences - Te 'dik' om te eten
• Doctor M. (Martijn) Hammers (m), Faculty of Science and Engineering - Hoe beïnvloeden veroudering en sociaal gedrag elkaar?
• Doctor M. (Michael) Jaehme - Faculty of Science and Engineering - Structure, function and mechanism of Pnu type transporters
• Doctor S.M. Kooistra - Faculty Medical Sciences - Epigenetica van afweercellen in de hersenen
• Doctor B.K. (Khan) Mahmoodi - UMCG / St. Antonius Ziekenhuis Nieuwegein - Cardiologie - Verhoogd risico op verstopte kransslagaders bij bloedstollingsafwijkingen
• Doctor J.C. (Jacolien) Van Rij-Tange - Faculty of Arts - Taal leren van voorspelling
• Doctor A. (Andrea) Sangiacomo - Faculty of Philosophy - Occasionalism and the secularization of early modern science: Understanding the dismissal of divine action during the scientific revolution
• Doctor M. (Mans) Schepers - Faculty of Arts - Vroeg historische akkerbouw in het moeras
• Doctor M. (Michael) Stevenson - Faculty of Arts - The web that was
• Doctor G. (Gert) Stulp - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - Spreading Fertile Ideas - Social Network Influences on Having Children
• Doctor S. (Susanne) Täuber - Faculty Economics and Business - De kunst van het overtuigen
• Professor M. (Michel) Vols - Faculty of Law - Helse buren. Van ontruiming naar oplossing bij woonoverlast
• Doctor C.W. (Corien) Wiersma - Faculty of Arts - Het Griekse paleis van Helena van Troje