NWO-Vidi grants worth €800,000 for 13 UvA researchers

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants worth €800,000 each to 13 experienced researchers from the UvA and the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. The grants will enable them to develop their own innovative lines of research and set up research groups over the next five years. The Vidi grants are aimed at experienced researchers who have already conducted successful research for a number of years after their PhD. A total of 78 researchers received Vidi funding in this round. The recipients:. Dr Flavia de Almeida Dias (Physics): On the trail of new particles We still don't know everything about the particles and forces that define our universe. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider could provide answers and reveal new physical principles. The researchers in Almeida Dias's group will develop an innovative analysis to investigate if there are as yet undiscovered new particles hidden deep in the data. Dr Marguerite van den Berg (Sociology): Improvising subsistence security in urban Western Europe Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Europeans were navigating profound insecurities in work, care and access to basic infrastructures. This research project investigates how urban Western Europeans in Dublin and Rotterdam improvise new forms of subsistence security, for example by combining jobs or creating informal care arrangements. Dr Jorik van de Groep (Physics ): Steering light with a single layer of atoms