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Grants and awards

    Nienke van der Marel receives the New Horizons in Physics Prize 2024

    Thu 14 Sep 2023
    Nienke van der Marel has been awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize 2024. The New Horizons Prize, part of the annual Breakthrough Prize, recognizes early career physicists and mathematicians who are making major advances in their fields of research. Van der Marel receives the prize for the prediction, discovery, and modelling of 'dust traps' in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.
    Read more Breakthrough prize announcementPubl. Thu 14 Sep 2023

    Pavel Mancera Piña wins VENI grant

    Fri 4 Aug 2023
    Pavel Mancera Piña will receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to continue his work on galaxy evolution and to study the nature of dark matter. The Veni subsidy is offered to promising young researchers in the Netherlands and gives them an opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
    Read morePubl. Fri 4 Aug 2023

    Piyush Sharda and William McDonald win prestigious prizes

    Fri 7 Jul 2023
    Recently Piyush Sharda won the IAU Division H PhD prize and the Charlene Heisler Prize for the best PhD in astronomy in Australia in 2022. Also William McDonald, one of our new PhD students, won the Bart Bok Prize for the best bachelors/masters thesis in astronomy in Australia in 2022.
    IAU Division H PhD prize Astronomical Society of Australia prizesPubl. Fri 7 Jul 2023

    Sjoert van Velzen receives Vidi grant to solve 'riddles from the universe'

    Mon 3 Jul 2023
    Minuscule elementary particles from space colliding with Earth can give us an insight into the distant objects they come from. But first, you need to know how to catch them. With a Vidi grant from NWO, researcher Sjoert van Velzen will 'hunt' for neutrinos coming from exploding black holes.
    Read morePubl. Mon 3 Jul 2023

    Pooneh Nazari wins Gruber Foundation Fellowships 2023

    Mon 29 May 2023
    Each year the Gruber Foundation, in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union (IAU), funds a US$75 000 fellowship programme for promising young astronomers. As last year, the Selection Committee decided to award this year's fellowship jointly to three outstanding candidates, each receiving US$25 000.
    Read morePubl. Mon 29 May 2023

    Jackie Hodge and Yamila Miguel win ERC Consolidator grants

    Thu 18 May 2023
    The Consolidator Grant is for promising researchers with seven to 12 years of experience since completing their PhD. They can use the grant of up to 2m euros to fund their team of researchers and support staff for a period of five years.
    Read morePubl. Thu 18 May 2023

    Mariska Kriek wins VICI grant

    Tue 28 Feb 2023
    Mariska Kriek wins a VICI grant to allow her to do in-depth research on the origins and evolution of galaxies using the James Webb space telescope. She gets 1,5 million euro for a period of five years to develop a new research line and to extend her own research group.
    Read more Lees meerPubl. Tue 28 Feb 2023

    €18 miljoen voor ontwikkeling en bouw instrumenten voor de Extremely Large Telescope

    Mon 20 Feb 2023
    Een consortium onder leiding van de Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA) heeft van onderzoeksfinancier NWO voor de komende 10 jaar een bedrag van bijna 18 miljoen euro toegekend gekregen voor de ontwikkeling en bouw van instrumenten op de toekomstige Europese Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in het noorden van Chili. NOVA is de alliantie van de sterrenkundige instituten van de universiteiten van Amsterdam, Groningen Leiden en Nijmegen.
    Lees meerPubl. Mon 20 Feb 2023

    Cornelia Pabst best SOFIA PhD Thesis award

    Thu 5 Jan 2023
    Each year during the Winter AAS meeting, the SOFIA program awards prizes to remarkable published papers and PhD theses based on SOFIA data. This year Cornelia Pabst (IFF-CSIC) was awarded with a best SOFIA thesis prize for her Leiden University PhD Thesis "Orion's Dragon and other stories: Feedback by massive stars"
    Read morePubl. Thu 5 Jan 2023

    Internationaal onderzoeksteam ontvangt subsidie voor speciale modelleer software

    Wed 21 Dec 2022
    Een international team van astronomen onder leiden van prof. dr. Simon Portegies Zwart van de Leidse Sterrewacht, heeft een subsidie van 225.000 Euro ontvangen van het Nederlandse eScience center voor de verdere ontwikkeling van het Astrophysics Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE). Met deze subsidie willen ze de simulatie software klaarstomen voor de nieuwe numerieke uitdagingen van het komende decennium. Deze uitdagingen hebben o.a. te maken met de schaalbaarheid van de onderliggende algoritmes op a breed scala van moderne computers, het verbeteren van de nauwkeurigheid waarop multi-schaal en multi-fysica problemen kunnen worden geadresseerd en de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van de programmatuur.
    AMUSE HomePubl. Wed 21 Dec 2022

    Pavel E. Mancera Piña wins Van Swinderen prize 2022

    Fri 16 Dec 2022
    On 13 December dr. Pavel E. Mancera Piña was awarded the Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap (KNG)'s Van Swinderen prize 2022 for his PhD thesis Dark matter and angular momentum in nearby disc galaxies.
    Read more ThesisPubl. Fri 16 Dec 2022