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One-minute video highlights creativity and functionality aspects of chemical synthesis and materials 17 March 2021 Ilse Denekamp, a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Prof. Gadi Rot

The use of AI models can help legal practitioners understand complex legal texts. Julien Rossi, Amsterdam Business School researcher, is trying to find out how such a solution might work.

Anyone exploring a new city uses digital platforms. We decide where we want to drink coffee with Yelp, we find our way with Google Maps and a place to sleep with Airbnb.

'With the development of far-reaching digital technologies, distrust is also growing,' concludes Balázs Bodó.

Do changing prices in the US housing market mean similar shifts will be seen in house prices in the Netherlands?

Research by PhD candidate Anastasios Efthymiou What makes artists and their paintings successful? That is what Anastasios Efthymiou, PhD candidate at Amsterdam Business School (ABS) wants to find out with his research.

The word populism is on everybody's tongue these days, but do we all mean the same thing? What is the difference between left-wing and right-wing populism? Is populism good or bad for democracy? How

The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council both have the power to request states to freeze individuals' assets.

When people think of new political parties, they tend to think of successful examples such as Podemos in Spain or the 5-Star Movement in Italy.

During the Dutch elections in March this year, voting behaviour of people with a migration background will be studied for the first time at national level.

Is an authoritarian virus going around, damaging our democracy? Many fear so, due to the erosion of democratic values, the rise of authoritarian politicians and the resurgence of the extreme right.

Recent study by Dr Kristina Irion joins up three EU policy areas that intersect in the digital age: consumer protection, EU governance of AI and EU external trade.

Social distancing and '1,5 metre' are concepts we have been confronted with every day in the past year.

Last year, political scientist Sarah de Lange, as a member of the Council for Public Administration, advised the Dutch parliament and government to lower the voting age to 16.

The Executive Board recently adopted the UvA Open Science programme 2020 - 2024. The programme includes an overview of new and well-established initiatives with regard to open access, research data management and FAIR data and also creates a policy framework for investments in open science at the UvA.

Educational inequality: it's a regular subject of public and political debate. Sociologist Andrea Foster researched how parents' knowledge of the education system and their expectations play a role in this inequality.

Urban Planning scholar Luca Bertolini will lead newly funded project EX-TRA (EXperimenting with city streets to TRAnsform urban mobility) Across Europe, cities are trying to radically reduce their reliance on car-based mobility in order to address sustainability challenges.

Exactly how divided are we in the Netherlands, and what role is polarisation likely to play in our upcoming elections? We discussed this with political scientist Eelco Harteveld, who has spent years studying the political lines that divide society.

Rehabilitation and adapting to a new lifestyle are crucial to recovery following heart failure, but nevertheless prove to be all too difficult a task for many patients.

Brexit expert Jonathan Zeitlin reflects on the Brexit deal that came into effect on 1 January 2021. 'When we last spoke about Brexit, I wondered if the transition period would be the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning.

Till at least 9 February parents in the Netherlands are in lockdown with their children. How did Dutch families mentally cope with the first wave of the corona pandemic? Preventive Youth Care researchers share first results of a longitudinal study.

Artificial intelligence that can faultlessly read medical scans and ensure nothing gets missed. That is the ambitious goal of UvA university professor Ivana Išgum. Išgum is an expert in the field of development of AI methods for analysing medical images. Her focus is largely on images relating to cardiovascular disease, i.e., the heart and the arteries, but she also works on, for example, the brain, especially in prematurely born children.

The COVID-crisis has affected Amsterdam and the metropolitan area disproportionally: substantial unemployment, 5-10 months of backlog in children's education, significant growth in households with debts, and an enormous backlog in health care.

'Such a thing doesn't exist,' UvA researchers Gadi Rothenberg and Albert Alberts repeatedly heard when they accidentally discovered 100% bioplastic in 2010.