Awards and Grants
| Published on: | 25 June 2024 |
For his research in the field of Natural Sciences, Casper van der Kooi will receive the Heineken Young Scientists Award.
| Published on: | 12 June 2024 |
During the 2nd edition of the ENLIGHT Impact Awards, George Azzopardi won one of six Impact Awards for his project ‘Enhancing National and Cross-Border Security: Automatic detection of Face Morphing Attacks’. The ENLIGHT Impact Awards recognize research projects with significant societal impact.
| Published on: | 06 June 2024 |
Dr. Michael Lerch and Dr. Frans Bianchi have received a EUR 50,000 Comenius Teaching Fellow grant from the NRO.
| Published on: | 30 May 2024 |
Prof. Ben Feringa has been elected member of the American Philosophical Society (APS)
| Published on: | 28 May 2024 |
RUG researchers partner in NWO Summit grant to research molecular basis of life.
| Published on: | 27 May 2024 |
On Friday, 24 May, the UG awarded four honorary doctorates to Dr Kate Crawford, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Gerrit Hiemstra and Prof. Mariana Mazzucato. The presentation took place in the Aula of the Academy Building and was part of the university's anniversary celebrations.
| Published on: | 22 May 2024 |
Prof. Chris Smit (GELIFES) and Prof. Kai Jensen (University of Hamburg) will receive an NWA grant of 2.9 million euros for research that will contribute to sustainable managemnt of the salt marshes of the Wadden Sea.
| Published on: | 22 May 2024 |
Raffaella Carloni and Jonas Göbel received the Ben Feringa Impact Awards 2024 for the categories of researchers and students on Tuesday 21 May.
| Published on: | 22 May 2024 |
At the UG Ceremony of Merits on May 21, Mink Sieders was awarded the GUF 100 Prize, making him the best student of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 2023-2024.
| Published on: | 16 May 2024 |
Dr. Loredana Protesescu has been awarded an Science-M grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research into antiperovskites and how they can be used for technological applications.
| Published on: | 27 April 2024 |
Prof. Henderik Willem Frijlink was nominated by the UG to receive a royal decoration on Friday 26 April
| Published on: | 23 April 2024 |
Nine researchers of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have received a Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Network grant.
| Published on: | 22 April 2024 |
Dr. Charissa Roossien (ENTEG) has successfully secured a Just Transition Fund (JTF) subsidy of 1.8 million euros to develop a Health Tracker for reliable respiratory and metabolic analysis.
| Published on: | 15 April 2024 |
With her expertise in single-molecule techniques, Dr. Kasia Tych (GBB) will contribute to a big Grvitation-research programme
| Published on: | 05 April 2024 |
Research group IREES receives NWO-KIC grant for research into sharing and repairing
| Published on: | 25 March 2024 |
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to the Green Tissue Engineering research programme, of which professor Marleen Kamperman, from the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
| Published on: | 25 March 2024 |
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to ANION, the research programme that Professor Moniek Tromp of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG) is a partner in. ANION, Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands, will study the electrochemical processes that are important for large-scale energy transition. Tromp has been awarded 2.9 million euros for her research in ANION.
| Published on: | 20 March 2024 |
Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) will participate as Twinning-partners in research projects in the Czech Republic, Spain, and Estonia.
| Published on: | 20 March 2024 |
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded M-1 grants in the Exact and Natural Sciences domain to Prof. Wouter Roos and Prof. Bert Poolman of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG).