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How teenagers experience their neighbourhood influences their emotional development. Do they feel safe and can they express themselves? Often neighbourhood places reflect the values of adults and not of teenagers.

Simulation models are important to tackle society's wicked problems, but it is not easy to develop simulation models for such complex contexts. Dr. Rick Quax of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam was one the researchers who developed a new simulation model. What do health inequalities, the energy transition and global climate change have in common? They are wicked problems that arise from many interacting factors at multiple levels - from cells, to individuals, to societies.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded over two million euros of 'Perspectief' funding for a consortium including Prof. Bob van der Zwaan at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants worth €800,000 each to 11 experienced researchers from the UvA and the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC.

When Gulnaz Sibgatullina started her research into European converts to Islam, she expected a niche group.

Dr Roderick Beijersbergen is named professor by special appointment of Functional Genomics at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (SILS-UvA) per 1 May.

The arrival of quantum computers will have major societal consequences, especially in the field of cybersecurity.

Developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving quickly. This leads to positive things, such as faster detection of cancer, for example.

UvA professors Daniel Bonn, Marieke de Goede, Amade M'charek and Sonja Smets have been selected as new members by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Entrepreneurs, researchers and education will soon work together on important tech issues of tomorrow in the newest building at Amsterdam Science Park: LAB42.

In recent weeks, all ongoing collaborations with Russian (academic) institutions have been frozen and many students, academics and other staff have made efforts to help students who have had to flee their country.

Library very pleased with prize for most innovative project during the pandemic. April 2022 Art Libraries Society / The Netherlands (ARLIS / NL) has declared the Online Study Space to be the best and most innovative project during the COVID-19 crisis.