As of 1 July, Klaas Hernamdt is the new programme manager of the Amsterdam Humanities Hub, the partnership between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the City of Amsterdam and the KNAW institutes in the Humanities ...

University of Amsterdam appoints Prof. Margreet Zwarteveen as Professor of Transformative Water Governance researching fair, sustainable water management for safer, biodiverse, equitable societies.

Prof. dr. Margreet Zwarteveen is benoemd tot hoogleraar Transformative Water Governance; onderzoek naar eerlijk, duurzaam waterbeheer voor een veiligere, biodiverse en meer gelijkwaardige samenleving.

Met haar benoeming op de Hans van Manen-leerstoel werd Gabriele Klein vier jaar geleden de eerste hoogleraar Ballet en Dans in Nederland. Ze blikt terug op een periode waarin ze niet alleen onderwijs gaf en onderzoek ...

Students from AUC recently joined lecturer and tutor Dr. Janna Schoenberger for a site visit to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where they met with artist Farida Sedoc to analyse her latest exhibition "Social Capital."

De Efteling has taken the top position in the MT500 2026 reputation ranking of Dutch companies, for the first time in 26 years. The annual survey is conducted by MT/Sprout in collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre ...

NWO has awarded grants to 56 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-XS. Four of these projects are led by researchers from the UvA Faculty of Science: Bettina Baumgartner, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, ...

NWO heeft in de nieuwste ronde van de Open Competitie ENW-XS 56 projecten een grant toegekend. Vier onderzoekers die aan de UvA FNWI werken ontvangen deze grant: Bettina Baumgartner, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, Tomáš ...

Professor Dick den Hertog (Amsterdam Business School, Business Analytics section) has received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project ‘Robust decision-making’.

Research fellows Arthur Schram and Giorgia Romagnoli (Amsterdam School of Economics, Microeconomics section) have received an Open Competition SSH L grant of € 798,000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Wat als de grootste beperking van zwarte cinema niet een gebrek aan representatie is, maar de blijvende invloed van Hollywood zelf? Volgens filmmaker en onderzoeker Skinner Myers wordt een groot deel van de ...

The Tinbergen Institute has announced that ABS scholar Vittoria Scalera will be appointed as its new Director of Graduate Studies.

What if the greatest limitation of Black cinema is not a lack of representation, but the enduring influence of Hollywood itself? According to filmmaker and researcher Skinner Myers, a large part of contemporary Black ...

On June 23, 2026 Diego Chang has defended his research proposal for a jury of HRSMC staff members of the HRSMC.

InSpectT, a spin-off company from the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam, has been awarded a ‘Take-off phase 2’ loan of €450,000 by the Dutch Research Council NWO. ...

Arnold Witte, Associate Professor has succeeded Moritz Föllmer (since 1 July 2026) as the vicedirector of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. As vice director, Arnold primarily dedicates his time to the PhD ...

Participants of the 15th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS15) informed us of the sad news that Jørgen E. Hansen passed away. Jørgen was ...

Het programma AI in je Bedrijf heeft de afgelopen maanden 27 mkb-bedrijven uit het metropoolgebied Amsterdam gekoppeld aan studententeams, docenten en AI-experts. In twintig weken werkten zij aan praktische ...

Over the past few months, the AI in Your Business programme has matched 27 SMEs from the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area with student teams, lecturers and AI experts. Over a 20-week period, they worked on practical ...

AICE members Gerben van Kleef and Disa Sauter have published a new paper in Affective Science that rethinks one of the most familiar ideas in emotion research: the division of emotions into "positive" and "negative".