Faculty of Science

2019 IN REVIEW research education valorisation

Dear reader,

Just as we were finishing the production of our annual overview of 2019, the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Suddenly we were all working from home, teaching, studying, doing whatever research activities we still could, and finding alternate ways to connect with our colleagues, students and collaborators all over the world.

Coincidently, we had already selected ‘Connecting Science’ as the central theme for this magazine. This was also the title of our proposition for the so-called ‘sectorplan’ funding we received in 2019, and it was chosen to signify the interrelationship between different disciplines and that of science to society.

I am proud to be the dean of a science faculty where researchers are always eager to explore that undiscovered space between disciplines. For example, read the interview with physicist Daniel Bonn (p.32) who regularly organises meetings for colleagues from the fields of physics, chemistry, computer science and biology to set up new research projects and shared labs. Or look at newly appointed MacGillavry Fellow Annemieke Petrignani (p.27), a chemical physicist studying the origins of life in space, who also has her eye on AI to tackle challenges related to big data and complex experimental studies.

And we are not just in it to satisfy our own curiosity; we take our role in society seriously. Plastics expert Gert-Jan Gruter (p.48) works on developing sustainable plastics and has made it his mission to clear up understandings about these plastics and recycling. Ekaterina Shutova (p.40) is an expert in the field of Natural Language Processing, who uses her background in linguistics and mathematics to develop machine learning techniques that can detect sexist and racist comments in social media posts. And one of the highlights of 2019 was the Gravitation grant for the MiCRop consortium, headed up by biologist Harro Bouwmeester (p.47). The consortium, which studies stress in plants, is expected to make important contributions to crop protection and global food supply.

But one of the most important ways for us to impact society is through the education we provide. Over the last few years our student population has grown from roughly 5,000 in 2015 to 6,625 in the current academic year. It is heartening to know that we are educating ever more scientific, curious and inquiring minds who will ultimately take up their role in society. We pride ourselves in providing research- based education, but the growth of recent years also meant some growing pains in our teaching organisation. As vice-dean Lex Kaper explains (p.10), we had to make some changes to bring teaching and research closer together. And so in this way, ‘Connecting Science’ takes on yet another dimension.

If anyone ever doubted the importance of these connections (not us at the Faculty of Science), these unprecedented times have made it abundantly clear: we need deep fundamental knowledge as well as close collaboration with other disciplines and stakeholders to adequately respond to the many challenges we are faced with today. We need scientists in society, now and in the future. We need science that connects.

Prof. Peter van Tienderen Dean of the Faculty of Science

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■ Organisation news - 6 ■ Education news - 12 ■ Students as researchers - 14 ■ Awards for students and alumni - 15 ■ Veni, Vidi, Vici and EU grants - 28 ■ Prizes, honours and awards - 50 ■ Obituaries - 51 ■ Science & society - 54 ■ Science4all - 56

Research and teaching need to move closer together

Giving everyone insight into the curriculum with the Visible Learning Path 10 Creator Vice-Dean first year as reflects on his Lex Kaper

16 Path Creator Learning Visible introduce the Cornelisse Maijs and Sandra Ilja Boor, Stephanie

4 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 RESEARCH INSTITUTES How can ■ Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy - 30 ■ Institute of Physics - 34 ■ Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics - 36 we improve ■ Institute for Logic, Language and Computation - 37 ■ Informatics Institute - 38 ■ Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences - 42 algorithms ■ Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics - 44 ■ Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences - 46 to be more APPOINTMENTS ■ MacGillavry Fellows - 26 human-like? ■ Professorial appointments - 52

FACTS & FIGURES ■ Funding and expenses 7 ■ Students at the Faculty of Science 20 ■ Gender balance 59 ■ Staff and students by nationality 60

Daniel Bonn Interview with physicist 40 research about her Shutova Ekaterina

32 I’m never at a loss for a new idea There are a lot of

plastics expert in sustainable Gert-Jan Gruter: misunderstandings with regard to plastics and 48 recycling

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NEW ROOF EXPECTED TO DELIVER EXTRA 24,000 KWH IN SOLAR POWER After an unprecedented storm took off a roof light in the

central hall of Science Park 904 in 2018, a replacement window Peter van Tienderen. Mariska Enneking and Kaper, Chris Marcelis From left to right: Lex wired with photovoltaic cells was installed in 2019. This adds an extra potential yield of solar power of 24,000 kWh annually, on top of the 250,000 kWh delivered by the more than 1,000 solar panels on our roofs. Besides the solar panels, a sedum roof and our own heat-cold storage system, other efforts to reduce our environmental footprint include: the recycling of 190 liters of helium (used in experimental research) through our own recollection system, the replacement of hundreds of light fixtures with LEDs and the placement of extra waste separation bins. Furthermore, printing was down 19% from the year before. In October, during the Week of Sustainability, we gave away 400 reusable water bottles to discourage students and staff from buying PET bottles with water. The three public water taps throughout the building, were used 62.000 times in 2019.

AND WE HAVE A NAME: LAB42! In 2018 the UvA announced the development of a new building for research, teaching and co-creation in information sciences at Amsterdam Science Park. In 2019 a name was chosen for the building, designed by architecture firm Benthem Crouwel: LAB42. With LAB referring to its function as a breeding ground or laboratory in the field of information sciences, while the number 42 is well known by information scientists as the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything from the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Furthermore, in 2019 an interior design firm was chosen: Studio Groen + Schild. Preparations to commence the build will start in 2020 and the building is expected to be ready for use in 2022, which will become the new home base for the Informatics Institute and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and our taught programmes in the information sciences, in addition to several public- private partnership labs.

6 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 2019 FNWI students BA m/v tbv schetsen scientific staff MA students m/v

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2019 FNWI students BA m/v tbv schetsen Total 1033 Professors 88 MA students NL/international Associate professors 79 Assistant professors 102 scientificPostdocs staff 208 Lecturers and PhD candidates 553 MA students m/v rest ????23????

2019 FNWI Total 1033 students BA m/v male 715 female 318 tbv schetsen scientific staff Total 1033 National staff 535 International staff 498MA students m/v 6000 Total 1033 Total 1033 gender academic Professors 88 male 715 MA students NL/international Associate professors 79 total students female 318 Assistant professors 102 Postdocs 208 150% groter en daarna 90% smaller >>> 5000 Lecturers and PhD candidates 553 8000 rest ????23???? 7000 4000 6000 IoP 5000 3000 Total fte 182 4000 Full professors 22 gender suppport Associate professors 16 3000 Assistant professors 12 2000 Total 1033 NEW DIRECTOR Postdocs 41 Professors 88 2000 PhD candidates MA students 81 NL/international OF OPERATIONAL Associate professors 79 Funding Support and management staff 10 MANAGEMENT: Assistant professors 102 CHRIS MARCELIS 1000 Postdocs To tal 208 1033 1000 In May 2019 director of Operational & expenses Lecturers and PhD candidatesNational staff 553 535 0 International staff 498 Management Rudi Rust announced rest ????23???? his departure after 10 years at the Faculty of Science. He was succeeded 6000 0 by Chris Marcelis per 1 January 2020. gender academic As member of the Faculty's total students management team, he is responsible finance income expences nationality staff academic teaching and supportfor the finance, ict, technology,150% real groter en daarna 90% smaller >>> 5000 estate development, and business FUNDING development/valorisation portfolios.8000 gender Previously, Marcelis was managing Direct government funding 73% director at the Geosciences Faculty7000 at 4000 100 Utrecht University and held positions6000 Government funding via a research organisation 13% at STW/NWO and Paques Biosystems. 80 Total IoP 1033 He obtained a PhD in biological5000 Contract 3000research funding 13% National staff 535 desulphurization processes at WUR 60 Total fte 182 International staff 498 and an MBA (MSc) at Twente4000 School gender suppport Full professors 22 40 of Management. Associate professors 16 3000 Assistant professors 12 6000 2000 gender academic20 Postdocs 41 The Faculty of Science Management2000 PhD candidates 81 team now totalconsists of: students dean Peter 0 Support and management staff 10 van Tienderen, vice-dean Lex1000 Kaper, director Operational150% groter Management en daarna 90% smaller >>> 5000 total1000 €168.6 million Chris Marcelis and director of 0 40 8000 Personnel and Administration nationality students 35 Mariska Enneking.7000 4000 0 30 25 6000 20 EXPENSES 15 IoP 5000 finance income expences nationality staff academic teaching and support 3000 10 Total fte 182 4000 5 Full professors 22 gender suppport gender 0 Associate professors 16 3000 Personnel 61% Assistant professors 12 2000 Postdocs 41 100 2000 Overhead 23% PhD candidates 81 Support and management staff 10 1000 80 1000 Facilities 15% 0 60 0 40 studenten 20 finance income expences 0 nationality staff academic teaching and support 40 nationality students gender 35 Research 67% 30 100 25 Education 30% 20 80 Support 3% 15 60 10 5 40 0 20

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studenten Education AT THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE

At our Amsterdam Science Park campus, we educate nearly 7000 students in our research- based Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Students at the Faculty of Science are driven by different motivations; some want to go deep into one subject, others want to know how it all connects. Some are bitten by the research bug and will want to keep going, others are more eager to take what they have learned into another direction.

With our portfolio of specialised programmes and programmes that cross the boundaries of discipline, we offer a home to all of them. With an unwavering curiosity and eagerness to learn in common, they are part of a community of dedicated and intelligent peers and lecturers. Lecturers who are themselves always eager to learn more, whether it is to develop their own didactic skills or to innovate their teaching in order to help students take charge of their own learning process.

All with one clear aim: to inspire the next generation of scientists and set them on their own road to discovery.

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EDUCATION RESEARCHEDUCATION together need to move closer teaching and Research honest,’ hesays. colleagues domissme,tobe Keel constellation.‘Myastronomy Nebula onthewall,anebulain has pinned up a poster of the Carina his timeinthesecondone,wherehe At themomenthespendsmostof Faculty Officeonthesecondfloor. Astronomy, theotheronein the AntonPannekoekInstitutefor people tendedto referissuesto to researchanddiscovered ‘that had anegativeimageascompared the staff,foundoutthatteaching a gapbetweenthemanagementand organisation culture.Theyidentified employees oftheFacultyabout 2018. Theyhadspokenwith50 Heuvel whichwaspublishedin psychologist Henriettevanden Klaas Visser andorganisation started withareportbypsychologist the teachingorganisation.This preparations forarestructuringof Science hasbeenmaking Over thepastyearFacultyof Report L period? level. Howdoeshelookbackonthisfirst teaching organisationuptothenext new role,hewastaskedwithliftingthe vice-dean oftheFacultyScience.Inhis been ProfessorofAstrophysics,butalso Since April2019LexKaperhasnotonly One onthefourthfloorat offices atSciencePark904. ex Kapernowhastwo within theorganisation. teaching agreaterfocusofattention started variousprocessestomake research andteaching.’Andsohe the universityisaninstitutionfor as areductionofresearchtime.But that teachingwasviewedasachore, ‘In thesediscussionsitbecameclear looking backonthatfirstperiod. to lotsofpeople,’herecounts, on 1April.‘Istartedoutbytalking applied forthejobandstartedwork Lex Kaper, professor ofAstrophysics, better valued. of cultureinwhichteachingis together andcanensureachange Someone whocanbringpeople the recommendationsinreport. Appoint avice-dean,wasoneof themselves.’ others insteadoftakingresponsibility programmes are nowsubdivided This iswhytheBachelor’s with newdevelopmentsinresearch.’ so thatoureducationcorresponds need tobebroughtclosertogether, says Kaper. ‘Researchandteaching ‘We want research-basedteaching,’ teaching Research-based 10 within theclusters.’ who leadstheprogrammedirectors assigned adirectorofeducation Sciences. Eachclusterhasbeen Sciences, andLifeEarth (the exactsciences),Information programmes. ‘NowwehaveSciences the casewithMaster’s into threeclusters,aswasalready a steptowards professorship,’ says a certainperiod, thenthatcountsas you weredirectorofeducationfor ‘If forinstanceyoucanshowthat on theteachingtheyprovide. number ofpublications,butalso no longerassessedonlyonthe different approach.Researchers are the FacultyofScienceistakinga for jobapplications.’Fromnowon can buildupaninternationalprofile publications istheonlywayyou explains Kaper, ‘Thenumber of terms ofteachingperformance,’ of researchperformanceandnotin you aremostlyassessedonthebasis been developed.‘Atuniversities a rewardandpromotionpolicyhas Besides thisorganisationalchange level next tothe teaching Raising FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY Kaper. Moreover there is now means that later they can, for whole thing together. Hoping that a compensation scheme for instance, teach at other education things would improve on the basis researchers who take on institutions, such as the higher of better communication and a little management roles. ‘Financial professional education sector. more grease on the wheels of the compensation is provided to the Kaper adds: ‘Or alternatively they organisation. Now we’ll see how department when someone carries do indeed get the opportunity to things turn out.’ out specific teaching-related tasks. do some research.’ Just as in my case. I now spend half MOSAIC of my time as vice-dean, which Don’t beat about the bush Does he still manage to do any is why my research group is getting Kaper enjoyed the first year. ‘It’s research of his own? ‘I have to money to appoint a postdoctoral nice to see the organisation from make quite an effort to make it researcher to help supervise PhD a different perspective. It’s not happen. The difficult thing is that students.’ something you would usually see as I no longer manage my own Kaper is also investigating how the a professor.’ During the discussions schedule. So I can’t do without the teaching task package can be better he conducted with colleagues he evenings and weekends,’ he says. distributed. ‘We think that teaching noticed that being direct was the ‘But I’m still supervising PhD will take up less time when more most fruitful approach. ‘I’ve learned students who are researching the support is available from people to say what I think, not to beat formation of stars, star explosions who handle logistical tasks.’ about the bush too much. And I’ve and gamma bursts. And together And a Lecturer Development also tried to get people as involved with French researchers I’m Programme has now been as much as possible in the process.’ working on the design of an developed for staff members who instrument for the Extremely Large spend most of their time teaching. Nonetheless, he sometimes found Telescope. This is MOSAIC, the ‘These are good lecturers and they it challenging. Especially when it multi-object spectrograph that make an important contribution to came to getting support for will be installed on the platform the teaching, but they’re not implementing the report alongside the ELT by the end of automatically affiliated to a research recommendations. ‘Before I took the decade. This will enable us to group. This means they get up my new post, the idea of simultaneously measure the disconnected from research.’ splitting up the College of Science spectrum of up to 200 stars in So in this programme they can get hadn’t been received well. So I had other galaxies.’ ■ training for a subsequent job, which to connect to people and hold the

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Education news

FACULTY'S TEACHING AND LEARNING CENTRE

On 24 June 2019 the AN IMPULSE TO the visibility of the available coaching or training, or for Faculty of Science held its EDUCATION QUALITY resources and promotes cross- project support when they are first-ever Education Day, 'A real benefit of having a polination between initiatives. developing their own teaching coinciding with the launch Teaching and Learning Centre 'Take, for example, the Visible innovation.' of the Faculty of Science at the Faculty of Science is that Learning Path Creator,' Witteveen Teaching & Learning we can coordinate both the continues, 'This is an example of EDUCATION DAY: Centre. With the slogan existing and to-be-developed how teaching innovation and TEACHING INNOVATION, 'By lecturers, for lecturers' activities aimed at teaching professional development can go PROFESSIONAL the TLC aims to improve innovation and lecturer hand-in-hand.' (see also page 16) DEVELOPMENT AND quality of education by development. Among others, KNOWLEDGE SHARING stimulating teaching the TLC will take responsibility VISIBILITY: LECTURERS' During the Education Day, the innovation, knowledge for the quality and organisation ROOM three core aims of the Faculty sharing and the of the training programme for Another goal of the Teaching of Science's TLC were highlighted professional development teaching assistants, the UTQ- and Learning Centre is to improve in several ways. For example, of teachers. programme ('BKO') for new the visibility of everything that's there were presentations of lecturers and the coordination on offer for lecturers. One way of multiple teaching innovation and nomination of lecturers for doing so is by creating a physical initiatives. In interactive sessions, UvA-wide UTQ+ workshops and lecturers' room, in addition to a participants experienced first- Advanced UTQ programmes,' virtual learning environment. hand how these innovations will head of the TLC Sylvia Witteveen The room will be home to a give a quality impulse to their explains. regular consultation hour for teaching. After the presentations, lecturers. Witteveen: 'The 'TLC Kareljan Schoutens awarded UTQ Bringing the separate initiatives living room' will function as a certificates to 32 Faculty of together and choosing an first point of contact for lecturers Science lecturers who successfully integrated approach, improved when they are looking for advice, completed the course this year.

12 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM OF UNIVERSITY Erwin van Vliet received Grassroots funding for the implementation of Perusall. This online annotation tool helps students with the reading and digesting of the course materials. The lecturer can track the annotations students make and, for example, adjust the lecture based on the students encounter. difficulties Jasper van der Heide, student in the Information Science received funding for a project to integrate the Bachelor’s, Jupyter Nbgrader grading programme with the digital learning environment Canvas. This programme reduces the time lecturers have to spend on grading, allowing more time for giving tailored feedback. Abcouwer received funding for his project ‘Learning by Toon Sharing’. He had already built a wiki for the course Dynamics which has users all in Business and IT (www.adaptivecycle.nl), over the world, and will use the funding to expand this type of knowledge sharing by students to other courses. • • ADVANCED UTQADVANCED CERTIFICATES FOR SEVEN OF SCIENCEFACULTY LECTURERS On 7 March, Faculty of Science lecturers Hanneke de Leeuw, Gertien Smits, Edwin van Lacum, Jan Brandts, Jan Gorter, were awarded their and Natalie Cappaert Stefania Grecea UTQ). Qualification (Advanced Advanced University Teaching obtain the certificate they completed an intensive To programme that consisted of a lecture series and an individual assignment on an issue in their own teaching practice. THREE ICT IN EDUCATION GRASSROOTS AWARDED and one student of the Faculty of Science lecturers Two received funding for the project proposal in the ICT in Education Grassroots programme. • 13 NEW VISUALISATION LAB AND SNE LAB LAB SNE AND VISUALISATION NEW by Master's lab is used use. The SNE ready for Lab became Lab and SNE a new Visualisation In 2019 It is equipped experiments. to conduct Engineering Network Security and in the programme students themselves. In the past students can patch the SNE server room that connections to with fast network on IOT (Internet of done digital forensics the security of cars, for example dissected students have and security aspects. to look at scaling or built radio networks Things) devices who work on the students and researchers facilities available for Lab there are In the Visualisation and be used for teaching The lab will interactive virtual environments. of scientific data and visualisation include an Oculus equipment, which with the visualisation and experiments research, demonstrations This equipment will also be used for a Hololens and several experimental set-ups. Rift, HTC Vive, Microsoft that is currently under development. on Scientific Visualisation and Virtual Reality new taught programme

Standing, from left to right: Hanneke de Leeuw, Jan Gorter, Gertien Smits, Stefania Grecea. Kneeling: Jan Brandts and Edwin van Lacum. Not pictured: Natalie Cappaert. EDUCATION of them.‘Andourformerlecturersarenowcolleagues.’ and youcanseehowcolleaguesexamineevidence,’saysone we learnedcomestolifehere.You passbythelabseveryday opportunity tolandtheirdreamjobattheinstitute.‘Everything of reportsattheNFI;onotherhandpilotgivesthem ways: ontheonehandalumnihelpspeedupdelivery this acceleratedtrainingprogramme.Andtheknifecutsboth interpretation ofDNA-profiles,enabledthealumnitofollow at theFacultyofScience,includingprevioustrainingin The knowledgetheyobtainedduringtheirMaster’s programme expanding thevolumeoftraceevidencethatcanbeprocessed. as possibleoutofthehandsDNAexpertsatinstitute, the evidencethemselves.Thesixalumnitakeasmuchwork reports ininvestigationswherepolicehavealreadyexamined draft-qualified DNAexperts,allowingthemtowritedraft programme therecentgraduateswerequicklytrainedas Forensic Scienceprogramme.Throughacustomisedinduction pilot withsixalumnifromtheUniversityofAmsterdam’s The NetherlandsForensicInstitute(NFI)launchedaunique DELIVERY TIMES FORENSIC INSTITUTE SHORTENS PROGRAMME ALUMNI TRAINING a talk. 1,111 submissionsonly28researcherswereinvitedtogive leading conferenceinJapanwasquitespecial.Fromthe that theseUvAstudentscouldpresenttheirworkatthis to directlylearndistributionsforobserveddata.Thefact is animportanttoolusedin(unsupervised)machinelearning, of staticobjectsin3D.Theso-calledreparameterizationtrick The studentsdevelopedamethodtodescribethemovement Artificial IntelligenceandStatisticsinJapanApril. 'Reparameterizing distributions'attheConferenceon Pim deHaanandTim Davidsongaveaplenarytalkon Artificial IntelligenceMaster'sstudentsLucaFalorsi, CONFERENCE LEARNING MACHINE AT LEADING RESEARCH THEIR PRESENT STUDENTS MASTER’S researchers as Students published inthe Journal ofCosmology andAstroparticlePhysics. lion’s share oftheresearchthatwentintopaper, whichwas spheroidal galaxies.Thestudents were responsibleforthe construction inCerroPachón,Chile, todiscovernewdwarf Survey Telescope, anewtelescopewhichiscurrentlyunder The studentsinvestigatedtheprospects fortheLargeSynoptic galaxies andtherolethesemayplay insearchesfordarkmatter. of thisyear’s workshopwasthepotential discoveryofdwarf programme (UvA-VU)thatledtoapublishedpaper. Thetopic workshop forBachelor’s studentsinthe Physics &Astronomy Ando, BradleyKavanaghandOscarMaciassuperviseda For thesecondyearinarow, IoP/GRAPPA researchersShin’ichiro DWARF ON GALAXIES RESEARCH PUBLISH STUDENTS BACHELOR’S 14 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY Prizes & awards FOR STUDENTS AND ALUMNI BACH SPEEDUP IS FAKE NEWS As a classical music lover, when he saw articles popping up about Bach’s music being played ever faster, David Erkelens, Master’s Student in the Information Studies programme, was ‘Jonge Haan’ award keen to learn more about that and Safi Graauw, alumnus of the Earth Sciences Master’s programme, won the decided to use it as the topic of his ‘Jonge Haan’ incentive award from the Dutch Advertising Association for Master’s project. He analysed nearly a documentary he made on the positive effects of tree planting on the East 20,000 records, including cantatas, African landscape. The video ‘Seeds of Change’ depicts the progress made violin concertos, organ trio sonatas in reforestation projects in regions seriously affected by deforestation and and suites for cello solo. He found erosion. Graauw views the documentary as a way of introducing scientific not only that the reports of speedup research into landscape restoration in East Africa to a wide audience in an were largely exaggerated, if not interesting and captivating manner. untrue, but also that the speedup differs per category, and per region. National student symposium poster competition At the national chemistry student 'PAC symposium' chemistry Master’s ‘The Brandenburg Concertos are student Dieuwertje Modder won the first prize in the 'Young KNCV' poster ridiculously fast these days, their competition. With her poster, Modder presented her research project at the duration shortened by nearly 10% research group for Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-inspired Catalysis sometimes. However, the organ at HIMS. trio sonatas and cello suites are consistently being played slower,’ Best short paper at The Web Conference 2019 says David. ‘Moreover, the speedups Bram van den Akker, Master’s student Artificial Intelligence, won the best appear to be localised. Speedups are short paper award at The Web Conference 2019. For his project ViTOR: more prominent in Western Europe Learning to Rank Webpages based on Visual Features he was supervised than elsewhere in the world.’ by Ilya Markov (IvI).

‘Data science can be messy business, UvA delegation highest ranked Dutch team at but making it as objective as we can, International Mathematics Competition 2019 defusing misinformation and Mathematics students from the University of Amsterdam won ten medals, building a fact-finding culture is including three gold medals, at the International Mathematics Competition an important aspect of academic 2019 for University Students in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Since 2010 the UvA practice,’ explains David. By relating has been sending a team of students to participate in the International data analysis to demographics, Mathematics Competition (IMC) in Blagoevgrad. This year the UvA team anthropoloy, psychology and other came in 19th place, making them the highest ranked Dutch University team, related fields he gave his thesis a bit just as the year before. The students from the UvA team were trained for extra, as the seven reviewers of the this competition during the honours course 'Training IMC 2019'. The best International Conference on Data candidates in the course were selected to take part in the competition in Analytics also agreed, and David was Blagoevgrad. invited to present the work himself. Best Poster at SEMANTiCS 2019 Anthi Symeonidou, Master’s Student Data Science won the best poster award at the SEMANTiCS 2019 conference. Her research project was supervised by Paul Groth (INDElab at IvI) and Viachaslau Sazonau at Elsevier.

Meeting on Cerebral Autoregulation best Poster Prize Swetta Jansen, Master’s student Computational Science, won the Best Poster Prize for jer presentation at the ninth International Meeting on Cerebral Autoregulation. The poster’s topic was ‘Parameter Optimization of a Mathematical Model Simulating Cerebral Autoregulation Using Data of Patients with Cognitive Disorders.’

15 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM Learning Path Creator Path Learning Visible the with curriculum the Giving everyone insight into how andwhythisteachingtoolhas beendeveloped. Stephanie MaijsandSandraCornelissetalkabout between thematerialofvariouscourses.IljaBoor, that givestheminsightintotheinterrelationship the VisibleLearningPathCreator, awebapplication students oftheFacultySciencewillbeabletouse As ofthestartnewacademicyearin2020, RESEARCHEDUCATION 16 all thelearningobjectives andexit enormous spreadsheetsettingout paths inthecurriculum.‘Ihadan structure andcohesionoflearning made anExceloverviewofthe for anassessmentpanel,shehad A fewyearsearlier, whilepreparing motivation andbetterretention.’ a greatersenseofmeaning,study different coursesthathelpstocreate act ofinterrelatingmaterialfrom might befound.‘It’s precisely the She wonderedifasolutiontothis course.’ going intomoredepthinthenew they don’t realisethatwe’re actually that materialisbeingrepeated,and hand, theysometimessayfeel ‘blank sheet’basis.Ontheother elements, whichtheystartona often experiencecoursesasseparate answering thisquestion.‘Students course, theyhaddifficulty course materialtoaprevious to relatetherecentlypresented problem: whensheaskedstudents Ilja Booroftenencounteredthis programme Psychobiology, As alecturerintheBachelor’s FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY qualifications of the curriculum,’ Pilot version acquiring writing skills. ‘This she recounts. ‘But it wasn’t of Since summer 2019, a pilot version clarifies the structure and cohesion use to anyone, apart from the of the Visible Learning Path between various learning objectives assessment panel.’ There had to Creator (VLPC) has been available per course and the contribution be a better way, right? for the Bachelor’s programmes they make to the learning path Psychobiology, Biomedical objective,’ says Cornelisse. Students Her colleague Sandra Cornelisse Sciences, Mathematics, Computing will be working with this tool as of joined Boor’s mission, and together, Science, Artificial Intelligence and the start of the new 2020 academic they discovered a web application Information Science. The Bachelor’s year; in the recent period, the main created at Utrecht University to in Biology, Physics, Future Planet focus has been fleshing out the tool give students insight into their Studies and the Master’s in Forensic together with the lecturer teams study programme. They got Sciences will soon follow. Maijs from the various programmes and permission to adopt and use the opens up her laptop and shows instructing the first lecturers on tool, but they soon felt that some the web application for the how to use the tool. things were missing; especially the Psychobiology programme. link between learning objectives, The screen presents all the courses Making the learning learning paths and exit taught in each academic year. objectives explicit qualifications. This led to the idea ‘The colours indicate which courses Providing the Visible Learning of developing an application are contained in this learning path,’ Path Creator with the right content themselves, and so the Visible says Maijs. ‘And at what level.’ was something of a challenge. Boor, Learning Path Creator was born. When she clicks on a learning path Cornelisse and Maijs developed Stephanie Maijs joined the team, with her mouse, a new screen an approach in which they closely and with funding from, among appears, which shows what learning examined the structure and other sources, the UvA Grassroots objectives from which courses cohesion of the curriculum. They Fund for ICT Innovation in contribute to this learning path. organised five meetings for each Education and support from the Within the Academic and Research programme, in which senior Faculty of Science Teaching and Skills learning path, for instance, lecturers determined the Learning Centre, they got down various learning objectives from programme’s objectives. ‘We asked to work. various courses contribute to the the lecturers: “does this approach learning path objective for lead to us delivering graduates with

17 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM RESEARCHEDUCATION corresponding feedback.’ explicit, studentscanget making theselearningobjectives programme,’ addsBoer. ‘Byalso was indeedanobjectiveofthe explicitly inthecourses,whileit thinking wereoftennotincluded revealed thatskillssuchascritical ‘To giveoneexample,thisanalysis are someobjectivesstillmissing?’ skills?”’ recountsCornelisse.‘Or the requiredknowledgeand of thiswiththeirmentor, students results. ‘Bydiscussingtheresults objectives toindividualstudy feedback byconnectingthelearning students toreceivepersonal VLPC. Thisexpansionwillenable Comenius granttoexpandthe either. IljaBoorhasreceived a Creator isn’t theendof story, But theVisible LearningPath tool Future graduation.’ we wantourstudentstofulfilupon is inlinewiththelearningobjectives can nowseewhetherthecurriculum curriculum.’ Booradds:‘Andwe structure andcohesionofthe of discussionaboutthecontent, Its developmenthasgeneratedlots puts theteachingonradar. Cornelisse: ‘Thewebapplication coming inlatercourses.Sandra related themesandskillswillbe already beabletodoandwhich solid graspofwhatstudentsshould they teachacourse,itgivesthem highly enthusiasticaboutit.When web applicationarecorrespondingly providing contentfortheVLPC The lecturerswhocollaboratedin among thelecturerteams.’ it hasstrengthenedthecollaboration curriculum together,’ shesays,‘and space andalanguagetoanalysethe they wereconvinced.‘Itgivesthem analysis oftheentirecurriculum, But assoonthelecturerssaw represented ‘anotherextratask’. In theirbusylecturerlives,this lecturer meeting,recountsBoor. was fullofenthusiasmatthefirst it quitedemanding.Noteveryone to curriculumlevel,buttheyfound lecturers tozoomoutalittlemore opportunity forparticipating The sessionsprovedtobeagood Evaluation the exam.’ start studyingjustthreedaysbefore in awaythatmeansstudentsdon’t Maijs, ‘andtouseteachingmethods multiple-choice questions,’adds an open-bookexaminsteadof higher learningobjectiveswith encouraging lecturerstoassess ‘To giveoneexample,we’re with therightstudyhabits.’ students toachievetheexitlevel support forlecturersinencouraging learning paths,andwe’reproviding objectives withincoursesand assessment withthelearning the teachingmethodsand project, we’reworkingonaligning Cornelisse: ‘Inthisfollow-up Methods andAssessmentproject. started theVisible Teaching In addition,thetriohavealso Boor. own learningprocesstoo,’says process, andthustomanagetheir learn toreflectontheirlearning 18 ■ on teachinginnovationatthecurriculumlevel. the FacultyofScience,wheretheyarecurrentlyfocusing are affiliated withthe Teaching andLearningCentreof programme coordinatoratBiomedicalSciences.Allthree Stephanie Maijsisanassessmentspecialistand to heroldprogrammeasalecturerandcoursedeveloper. following herdoctoralresearchandapostdoc,returned studiedPsychobiologyherselfand, Sandra Cornelisse programme attheFacultyofScience.Hercolleague since 2012,shehasbeenaffiliated withthePsychobiology Neuroscientist IljaBoorswappedthelabforteaching:

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studenten AND VALORISATION AT THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Researchers at the Faculty of Science are driven by a shared passion for wanting to know how things work. Our eight research institutes cover the full range from astronomy to life, earth, physical, molecular, mathematical and information sciences. Whether our chosen instrument is a microscope or a telescope, whether we are unraveling the origins of life on earth or shaping its future for generations to come, we find each other in a curiosity that knows no bounds.

But our interest goes beyond satisfying our own curiosity; we want our research to have impact. Therefore, collaboration is a given. With each other, with our colleagues at the neighbouring research institutes at Amsterdam Science Park, and with peers at the national and international level. And also with societal partners and partners in industry. Where our research is often fundamental in nature, it is boosted by collaboration with application- oriented partners. We are positioned at the beginning of the knowledge value chain: our research has the potential to lead to innovation and new products through further development in society and industry. The many examples in this magazine illustrate that road from curiosity to impact.

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Named after the ground-breaking crystallographer professor Carolina MacGillavry (1904-1993), the MacGillavry Fellowship is aimed at female scientists with a strong track record in one of the Faculty’s scientific disciplines. Meet our MacGillavry Fellows 2019

After two earlier Dr Bahareh Afshari Dr Flavia de Almeida Dr Iris Groen rounds in 2010 and Appointed at the Institute Dias Appointed at the 2013, the Faculty of for Logic, Language and Appointed at the Institute Informatics Institute | IvI Science opened the Computation | ILLC of Physics | IoP Iris Groen will join the UvA’s Fellowship for a new Bahareh Afshari was the first of Flavia de Almeida Dias joined the Informatics Institute as an round of applications the newly appointed MacGillavry UvA Institute of Physics in March assistant professor in September in 2019. Fellows at the UvA’s Faculty of 2020. She is an expert on high- 2020. It will be a return to her Science. She joined the Institute energy particle physics. De alma mater: she obtained her Seven MacGillavry for Logic, Language and Almeida Dias used to be involved PhD at the UvA in 2014, under Fellows were Computation (ILLC) in January in the hunt for the Higgs boson supervision of Steven Scholte, appointed; all of 2019. Her work lies at the at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Sennay Ghebreab and Victor them high-achieving intersection of mathematics and Atlas experiment. Nowadays she Lamme. She is an expert on researchers in their logic. The Logic and Computation focuses on the detection of other the way our brain uses visual respective fields with group at ILLC, where Afshari is elusive particles, still at Atlas. information to perceive and the potential and now assistant professor, focuses Originally trained at the São understand our natural ambition to obtain on the use of logical techniques Paulo State University in Brazil surroundings. To study this, a leadership position to better understand a wide and California Institute of she uses a variety of cognitive as professor at the range of processes and behaviours Technology in the US, throughout neuroscience methods and University of involving computation. More her work at CERN she was techniques, including M/EEG, Amsterdam. specifically, Afshari’s specialty officially employed by the fMRI, TMS and ECoG. Her lies in a field within modal logic University of Edinburgh and after ultimate goal is to develop called fixpoint logics. Before that the Niels Bohr Institute at computation models based on coming to Amsterdam, she held the University of Copenhagen. her findings. At the moment she research and teaching positions is still working as a postdoc at at the University of Edinburgh, the WinawerLab at New York University of Oxford and Vienna University, after having University of Technology. She is completed a postdoc at the also still currently an Assistant National Institute of Mental Professor at the University of Health, also in the United States. Gothenburg (Department of Computer Science and Engineering).

26 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 Dr Diletta Martinelli Dr Antonija Oklopcic Dr Annemieke Dr Verena Schoepf Appointed at the Appointed at the Anton Petrignani, Eng. Appointed at the Institute Korteweg-de Vries Institute Pannekoek Institute for Appointed at the for Biodiversity and for Mathematics | KdVI Astronomy | API Van 't Hoff Institute for Ecosystem Dynamics | IBED Diletta Martinelli joined the On 1 January 2020 astrophysicist Molecular Sciences | HIMS Verena Schoepf started her new group of Lenny Taelman in the Antonija Oklopcic exchanged her Dr Annemieke Petrignani was position as tenure-track Assistant Algebra, Geometry and NASA Fellowship at the Harvard appointed a MacGillavry Fellow Professor and MacGillavry Fellow in Mathematical Physics programme University for a position as in the Molecular Photonics group the Department of Freshwater and at KdVI. Her research focuses on assistant professor at UvA’s at HIMS. Her research focuses on Marine Biology at IBED. She is a birational geometry. Diletta is Anton Pannekoek Institute for organic chemistry in space and in marine biologist interested in also very active in the Astronomy. She is an expert in the origins of life. She obtained understanding how reef-building development of mathematical the field of exoplanets. One of her PhD in atmospheric photo- corals are affected by climate and research and teaching in Africa. her main interests is the physics at the FOM institute AMOLF environmental change. Having a She obtained her PhD in 2016 at theoretical modeling and and did a postdoc at the Max- background in both biological and Imperial College London under characterisation of the Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, geological sciences, her research supervision of Prof. Paolo Cascini atmospheres of these planets that Heidelberg, where her research integrates eco-physiological, stable and held two consecutive postdoc exist in other solar systems than focused on the spectroscopy and isotope and geochemical analyses positions at the University of our own. Oklopcic obtained her electron recombination of cold to provide new insights into the Edinburgh and the Mathematical PhD at the California Institute of molecular ions relevant to mechanisms and traits that enable Sciences Research Institute Technology in 2017. After that molecular clouds where planet coral resistance to multiple climate Berkeley. she received a fellowship at formation takes place. In 2011, change stressors and promote their Harvard University, and in 2019 she started working for the Leiden adaptive capacity in a changing she became a Sagan Fellow in Observatory and in 2014 she ocean. Verena came to Amsterdam the NASA Hubble Fellowship started her own group at the from Australia, where she was a Programme at the same University of Amsterdam after postdoctoral Research Fellow, and university. obtaining a Vidi grant to study later also Research Programme the shape and size of hydrocarbons Leader, at the ARC Centre of in space. She is also one of the Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at co-founders of the Amsterdam the University of Western Australia Origins Centre (AOC). Her vision in Perth. She obtained her PhD is to implement AI techniques from Ohio State University, and her to tackle the challenges related MSc and BSc degrees from the to big data and complex University of Innsbruck in Austria. (experimental) studies.

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Veni, Vidi, Vici

VENI VIDI VICI

The Netherlands Organisation Dr Ronald de Haan Two researchers at the Faculty One Faculty of Science for Scientific Research (NWO) ILLC | Sophisticated voting of Science were awarded a Vidi researcher received a Vici grant awarded Veni grants worth up procedures grant by NWO, worth up to from NWO in 2019. The Vici, to €250,000 to seven Faculty of When voting on complex matters, €800,000. The Vidi is aimed at worth €1.5 million, is one of the Science researchers. The Veni simple winner-takes-all voting experienced researchers who largest personal grants in the gives promising young scientists rules are inadequate. More have carried out successful Netherlands and is targeted at the opportunity to further adequate voting rules are hard to research for a number of years outstanding senior researchers elaborate their own ideas over compute. De Haan will use after obtaining their PhD. The who have successfully a three-year period. methods from theoretical grant will enable the researchers demonstrated the ability to computer science to find out to develop their own innovative develop their own innovative Dr Georgios Amanatidis which kind of algorithms work line of research and set up their lines of research and to act as ILLC | Fair Division in well for these rules. own research group. coach to younger researchers. Dynamic Environments A crucial objective when Melissa McClure | API Dr Maris Ozols | ILLC/IoP/ Prof. Jaap van Buul allocating resources is that this is Jumpstarting life on KdVI | Quantum Math SILS/Sanquin research done in a commonly acceptable terrestrial planets Quantum computers can solve and Landsteiner Laboratory manner. Amanatidis will Interstellar ices hold the initial certain problems much faster, but - Gatekeepers of the introduce suitable definitions of organic molecular ingredients of finding new quantum algorithms Vasculature fairness in situations where the life. McClure will trace the is difficult. Using advanced The blood vessel wall acts as available resources change over evolution of ice chemistry as stars mathematical techniques, Ozols gatekeeper between the blood time, as does for instance a food form, to determine the will try to find new quantum and the surrounding tissue. bank’s inventory. complexity of the molecules that algorithms and implement them In case of inflammation, white are delivered to forming planets. in software. blood cells move through the Dr Camila Correa | IoP vessel wall to deal with the Interacting dark matter Dr Masha van der Sande Dr Ning Yan | HIMS inflammation. Van Buul will seek particles IBED | Resilience of tropical Heterogeneous catalyst to better understand how white The nature of dark matter is a forests design blood cells exit to clear harmful great unsolved mystery. Correa Van der Sande will investigate Inspired by the elegant ‘active pathogens. will use state-of-the-art how plant characteristics help centre’ of enzymes, Yan will simulations to analyse signatures forests survive droughts and fires. develop a bi-atom heterogeneous of forces between dark matter The results will help to develop catalyst in this project. It will particles on galaxies colliding, effective forest management open up new opportunities for filling a major gap in our strategies, and safeguard the the catalysis and materials science understanding of dark matter. important role of forests in communities. She will conduct part of her reducing climate change. research at IoP. Dr Bart Weber | IoP/ Dr Gaurav Dugar | SILS ARCNL | Friction on Big secrets of a tiny bug demand Many proteins are located at Friction and wear are responsible specific places inside a cell for 20% of the world energy depending on their function. In consumption. Everybody learns in bacteria, DNA and RNA can also school about the friction be localised together with coefficient: the ratio of frictional membrane proteins in a process and normal force. What is the called ‘transertion’. Dugar is origin of this relation and how going to develop new techniques can we tailor the friction to study transertion and its coefficient? Weber will try to find effects in bacteria. answers.

28 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 The European Research Council (ERC) EUROPEAN stimulates high-quality research in Europe by making funds available and supporting groundbreaking research. Veni, Vidi, Vici Grants CONSOLIDATOR MARIE CURIE STARTING GRANT GRANT ADVANCED GRANT FELLOWSHIP

A Starting Grant is a personal The Consolidator Grant, The Advanced Grant, totaling As part of the Horizon 2020 grant of around €1.5 million that averaging around €2 million, €2.5 million, is awarded on the programme, four researchers gives talented researchers the is meant for researchers who basis of a researcher’s academic received a Marie Curie opportunity to conduct research obtained their PhDs between excellence and research proposal. Fellowship from the European for a period of five years. This seven and twelve years ago to Committee to conduct research year, the ERC awarded the enable them to consolidate their Prof. Jan de Boer | IoP at the Faculty of Science. starting grant to: position as independent The concept of effective field researchers. theory must be modified in order At ILLC Dr Iacer Calixto will Dr Corentin Coulais | IoP to be able to describe quantum build better and improved human Mechanical metamaterials are Prof. Lenny Taelman | KdVI gravity. In his project ‘Can I see language generation models that artificially constructed materials Although problems like Fermat’s Quantum Gravity?’ De Boer will not only use vision and language, with special structural properties Last Theorem have long been come to a precise and but also integrate the knowledge that are used in e.g. prosthetics studied using tools from quantitative description of these that we, humans, have about the and aerospace. In this project geometry, there has not been changes, ultimately connecting world. He will work together Coulais will focus on a crucial much interaction with the it to potential experimental with Raquel Fernández from aspect of metamaterials: their mathematics arising from string discoveries. ILLC’s Dialogue Modelling group. extreme mechanics under realistic theory and number theory. In this conditions. project, Taelman will exploit Prof. Daniel Bonn | IoP At SILS Dr Lemeng Dong hidden symmetries in geometry Mechanical friction in engines, will develop a new strategy to Dr Crystal McMichael to solve problems in number machines and industrial processes control cyst nematodes by IBED theory. is an immense global source of altering the signaling relation Human disturbance of the energy loss, but is still poorly between the host plant and the Amazonia forest caused fire and Prof. Anna Watts | API understood scientifically. Bonn cyst nematodes. Dong will work deforestation over the last 2,000 Watts will develop and refine will open a window on the study in Harro Bouwmeester’s Plant years. McMichael’s project will a new technique for measuring of local stresses in complex Hormone Biology group. determine whether human mass and radius that exploits materials, based on recent disturbances occurred in locations relativistic effects on X-rays developments in fluorescence Dr Martina Ferraguti will that form the basis of global emitted from hot spots on the microscopy. He aims to tackle work together with Yael Artzy- carbon models. neutron star’s surface: ‘Pulse fundamental scientific problems Randrup at IBED on the spillover Profile Modeling’. She will use in this field. of wildlife diseases into human Dr Franciska de Vries data from NASA’s Neutron Star populations, especially by IBED Interior mosquitos. Drought is severely threatening our ecosystems and can cause Dr Kenny Chun Yu Ng is strong shifts in plant community going to study gamma rays from composition. De Vries will study the sun at IoP, in collaboration vulnerable species that regrow with Shin’ichiro Ando at after drought. This knowledge is Gravitation and AstroParticle crucial for predicting and Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA). mitigating the effects of drought on our ecosystems.

Dr Zeynep Akata | IvI Akata will conduct her project, titled ‘Deeply Explainable Intelligent Machines’, at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany, where she was named professor in October.

29 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM API Africa. for whichtheastronomershopeto buildanothermillimetretelescopein Journal Letters.Thenextstepisto increasethesensitivityofEHTnetwork results ofthisprojectwerepublished inaspecialeditionofAstrophysical actually measuretheenormousmass oftheblackholeinM87,’shesays.The size oftheshadowisrelatedto massofablackholeandwemanagedto Professor ofTheoreticalHigh-Energy Astrophysics,beingoneofthem:‘The Four APIresearcherswerepartofthisworldwideproject,withSera Markoff, shadow. Sun. Ithasacircularstructureanddarkareainthemiddle,which isits hole is55millionlightyearsfromearthand6.5billiontimesthemass ofthe of Messier87,amassivegalaxyinthenearbyVirgocluster. Thisblack telescope thesizeofearth.Thephotoshowsblackholeat the centre worldwide networkofeightradiotelescopes,thattogetherforma virtual black holeanditsshadow. Theyusedthe EventHorizonTelescope (EHT), a For thefirsttime,astronomerswereabletotakeaphotoofsupermassive hole first image of a black capture Astronomers 30 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy Researchers at the Anton Pannekoek CTOR O A 2019Institute FNWI for Astronomy (API) seek to T

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Best measurements ever producedIoP of a pulsar neutron star FTE Headcount An international team of scientists, Full professor 18,9 22 includingAssociate API astronomers, professor has 22,2 23 succeededAssistant in producing professor the first 11,2 12 precisePostdoc and dependable 47,4 48 measurementsPhD of a pulsar, as well71,1 as 72 the firstTeaching surface staff map of one of 2,8these 3 mysteriousSupport objects. & management Pulsars are small, 7,7 11 Grand total 181,3 191 compact neutron stars that rotate hundreds of times a second. They are the remnants of dead heavy stars. The pulsar that was measured is 1,100 lightyears from Earth, rotates 205 times a second around its axis, is 1.3 times heavier than the sun and has a diameter of only 25 kilometers. Pebbles determine the direction in which planets rotate Also the magnetic field structure of Planets and planetoids often rotate in the same direction around their own this pulsar was much more complex axis as their direction of travel around the star they orbit. The reason for this than previously imagined. rotational movement remained a mystery. But API PhD candidate Rico Visser The astronomers used an x-ray concludes that the ‘pebble growth model’ offers a solution. instrumentKdvI aboard of the International Space Station, FTE Headcount In this model rocks grow into a larger objects such as planetoids by sweeping called theFull professor‘Neutron star Interior7,8 8 up small pebbles that are slowed down by gas. This takes place during the CompositionAssociate Explorer’. professor These 8,4 10 early phase of the formation of the solar system, in which gas and dust still measurementsAssistant professorhelp to understand 12 12 exist in planet-forming discs around stars. It has now emerged that pebbles more aboutPostdoc the behaviour of 3,9 4 orbiting between the star and the planetoid remain in the vicinity of the PhD 25 25 ultradense matter in the star’s core. planetoid for a longer period. As a result, the pebbles in the inner orbits will Teaching staff 2,9 5 The resultsSupport were & management published in journal 4 13 collide with the planetoid at a certain angle and, whip the celestial body AstrophysicalGrand total Journal Letters. 64 77 around like a spinning top in a prograde direction. Just like Earth does. Visser’s findings were published in the journal Icarus.

ILLC total 31 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM FTE Headcount Full professor 8,5 14 Associate professor 10,8 15 Assistant professor 16,5 23 Postdoc 22 31 PhD 39,8 50 Teaching staff 2,8 3 Support & management 3,65 14 Grand total 46,75 150

IvI FTE Headcount FFull professor 8 11 Associate professor 10,3 12 Assistant professor 15 16 Postdoc 20,3 23 PhD 95,5 96 Teaching staff 20,6 24 Support & management 19,8 23 Grand total 189,5 205

HIMS FTE Headcount FFull professor 13,6 15 Associate professor 11 13 Assistant professor 7 7 Postdoc 16,9 19 PhD 68 68 Teaching staff 0 0 Support & management 21,4 23 Grand total 137,9 145

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instituten for anew idea I’m never at aloss fundamental question:whatisfriction? doesn’t becomestiff andgettingtothebottomof for anewresearchidea:drippingteapots,mayonnaisethat fluids thatdon’t flowinanormalmanner. He’s neverataloss Daniel Bonnisanexpertinthefieldofsoft,solidmatterand RESEARCH although averyslow-movingone.’ tape. ‘Sotheadhesiveisafluid, a metreloweronstripofadhesive rolled upstateandnowit’s dangling little rolloncebeganinacompletely a fluid,thenitdoesn’t stop.’The tape stopsrollingdown.Butifit’s is asolidmaterial,thentherollof for ayear,’ hesays.‘Iftheadhesive ‘This experimenthasbeenrunning experiment onFridayafternoon,’ his students.‘Dreamupan basis forhisassignmentsgivento This senseofwonderisalsothe for anewidea.’ experiments. ‘I’mneverataloss asked howhethinksofhis don’t understand,’hesays when I lookaroundmeseethings the InstituteofPhysics.‘When Waals-Zeeman Institute, partof Fluids andheadoftheVan der Bonn isProfessorofComplex Teapot effect A hangs fromastriplight. a rollofadhesivetape bove DanielBonn’s desk, nozzle, itstartstoflutterlikea flag. sprayed mediumgetscaughton the agricultural pesticides.‘Whenthe nozzles ofdevicesdesignedtospray reflected inissuesinvolvingthe He explainsthatyouseethis and asolidsurfaceisimportant.’ interaction betweenafluidflow class ofprobleminwhichthe says Bonn.‘Butitrelatestoamajor experiment mayseeminsignificant,’ ‘Something likethatteapot as Teflon.’ to whichwaterdoesn’t stick, such or makethespoutfromamaterial have tomaketheedgeverysharp, the mouthofteapot,thenyou the streamofteagettingstuckto publication. ‘Ifyouwanttoprevent in awell-foundedscientific This studentexperimentresulted spout afterpouringacupoftea. drops frequentlyrunalongthe discovered the‘teapoteffect’,where This washowtheyrecently is oneassignmenthegivesthem. 32 prevent.’ That’s somethingyouwantto wind andpollutethesurfacewater. can quicklygetblownawaybythe This leadstolittledropletsthat how youwant,’hesays.‘In what youwant,whenwant and sector youhavethefreedomtodo originally envisaged.‘Inthescience career inindustry, somethinghehad After thathenolongerwanteda allowed.’ possible andeverythingwas and Post-its.Buteverythingwas string, rubberbands,ducttape Paris. ‘Alabheldtogetherwith the ÉcoleNormaleSupérieurein He didmanyofhisexperimentsat when youchangethetemperature? happens toadroponsolidsurface by examiningthequestion:what physics whenhegainedhisPhD UvA andonlylatermovedinto degree inphysicalchemistryatthe Bonn startedhiscareerwitha Post-its and tape Duct FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY RESEARCH

industry you have to carry out your and flow properties remain the wooden blocks over a plank.’ Bonn research much too quickly and you same as for normal mayonnaise. wants to quantify the experiments also have to justify yourself a lot.’ We contributed to this by looking of Da Vinci and is collaborating So he remained as a scientist in Paris at the difference in flow with his colleague, chemist Fred for twenty years. Then ten years characteristics between normal Brouwer. ‘He makes ‘magic’ ago he made a full return to the and light mayonnaise.’ molecules that emit light when you UvA. press on them,’ says Bonn. ‘Using ERC grant this we can look at the contact Collaborating with In 2019 Bonn received an ERC surfaces between two surfaces companies Advanced grant worth 2.5 million sliding over each other.’ Companies often collaborate euros for research focusing on with Bonn’s department. His friction among other things, which Cross-pollination most recent major project was involves mechanical parts in With a fair degree of regularity conducted together with Unilever machines rubbing against each Bonn organises meetings for and concerned the mechanical other. ‘All components that provide researchers from the departments properties of light mayonnaise. mechanical work lose energy due of Physics, Chemistry, Computing ‘Mayonnaise gets its stiffness to friction, usually in the form of Science and Biology, and this often through little drops of oil that heat,’ he says. ‘And this leads to leads to new research projects or are positioned close together,’ he the loss of between 20 and 30 shared labs. ‘The Faculty of Science explains. ‘You have to use less oil percent of the entire global energy brings me great colleagues. It’s great in light mayonnaise, so you get a consumption.’ to share a building with different problem with the stiffness. Unilever disciplines. That results in cross- creates this necessary stiffness by The fundamentals of friction are pollination and so you’re able to adding starch to the water. This not well understood. ‘You’d think try out crazy ideas and new makes it possible to produce that it’s a problem that was already techniques.’ ■ mayonnaise with just 30 percent oil, solved in the Middle Ages,’ says instead of 80 percent. But then you Bonn. ‘Leonardo da Vinci tried to have to make sure that the stability get to grips with it by pushing

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structure, the light distribution Xe-124. Image: XENON collaboration. slow decay time of the rare isotope Nikhef researchers found an incredibly The XENON experiment in which IoP and evolves across the chloroplast in Slowest radioactive decay ever ways that seem very counterintuitive. measured Photosynthesis is intensively studied While actually searching for dark matter, within the Solardam initiative: researchers from Nikhef and the IoP-Institute for it is crucial for the plant’s life, High Energy Physics did a spin-off measurement: ILLCbut ultimately total for ours too. they measured the slowest radioactive decay ever. FTE Headcount The XENON experiment takes place in the Full professor 8,5 14 underground Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy and Associate professor 10,8 15 uses several tons of cold, liquid xenon. In a rare Assistant professor 16,5 23 form of this element, isotope Xe-124, they Postdoc 22 31 IoP hosts FYSICA 2019 measured a decay time of 18 billion trillion years. PhD 39,8 50 FYSICA, the annual physics conference of the Netherlands’ ‘At human time scales, one would simply call this Teaching staff 2,8 3 PhysicalSupport Society & management(NNV), was held 3,65 at Amsterdam 14 Science Park stable, but there really is a measurable decay,’ this year.Grand From total secondary school46,75 teachers 150 to researchers, the says Patrick Decowski (IoP and Nikhef). conference was attended by all kinds of physicists. Kobus ‘The fact that we find a reliable value indicates Kuipers kicked off the programme with a lecture about his the precision with which we can measure this research on nanophotonics. Physics Nobel Prize winner Gérard type of effect.’ This world record was published Mourou closed the day with a talk about the physics of very in Nature’s April issue. short and intense laser pulses. The rest of the day visitors were invited to attend focus sessions, lab tours, a physics market, award ceremonies and other physics-related activities, like the entertaining evening programme: a musical theater show called ‘Vibrating World’. IvI 34 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 FTE Headcount FFull professor 8 11 Associate professor 10,3 12 Assistant professor 15 16 Postdoc 20,3 23 PhD 95,5 96 Teaching staff 20,6 24 Support & management 19,8 23 Grand total 189,5 205

HIMS FTE Headcount FFull professor 13,6 15 Associate professor 11 13 Assistant professor 7 7 Postdoc 16,9 19 PhD 68 68 Teaching staff 0 0 Support & management 21,4 23 Grand total 137,9 145

IBED FTE Headcount Full professor 7,8 9 Associate professor 14,7 19 Assistant professor 17,4 19 Postdoc 21,5 24 PhD 27,6 28 Teaching staff 2,1 3 Support & management 29,1 37 Grand total 120,2 139

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In early times, the universe was an energetic mix of strongly interacting particles. The first particles that broke free from this dense soup were neutrinos. These neutrinos are still around us today, but are very hard to detect directly because they are so weakly interacting. Together with a team of international cosmologists, Daniel Baumann and Benjamin Wallisch (both working at IoP), have succeeded in measuring the influence of neutrinos on the way galaxies have become clustered during the evolution of the universe. When a pebble is dropped into a pond, it creates ripples on the surface of the ‘Chasing Einstein’ water that travel outwards in concentric circles. Similarly, the regions in the premieres at InScience primordial plasma with the largest densities produced shells of matter (mostly Festival protons and electrons) propagating outwards at almost, but not quite, the Does dark matter really exist? speed of light. This outward push of matter was created by the large number And if not, do we truly understand of high-energy photons in the early universe. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity? About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the free electrons were captured by ‘Chasing Einstein’, a film about dark protons and the spreading of these shells of matter stopped. The resulting matter and gravity, premiered during frozen shells of matter became the dense regions in which an excess of the InScience Festival in Nijmegen. galaxies would eventually form. IoP’s Margot Brouwer and Erik The presence of neutrinos affected this process in a subtle, but relevant way. Verlinde play an important role in After the neutrinos decoupled from the rest of the primordial matter, they the film: Verlinde is well known for started travelling at the speed of light, slightly faster than the rest of the his ideas about the nonexistence of matter. The shells of neutrinos therefore overtook the shells of matter and dark matter and the role that gravity slightly deformed them, creating small distortions in the seeds for the plays in this; Brouwer was part of formation of galaxies at much later times. the team that carried out the first The influence of the cosmic neutrinos on the large-scale structure of the experimental test of those ideas. universe should be detectable by carefully analyzing the clustering of galaxies. And that’s what Baumann and Wallisch did. They studied data of 1.2 million galaxies, out to a distance of about 6 billion light years. Their statistical analysis confirms the expected signature of the bath of cosmic neutrinos that fills all of space. This new measurement constitutes an interesting confirmation of the standard cosmological model which links the production of neutrinos one second after the Big Bang to the clustering of galaxies billions of years later. These findings were published in Nature Physics in February 2019.

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NWO KLEIN Grant for NETWORKS remains ILLC total Arnoud den Boer in full swing Arnoud den Boer was awarded an The research consortium NETWORKS, FTE Headcount NWO KLEIN grant to investigate the a partnership of KdVI with CWI, the Full professor 8,5 14 Raf BocklandtAssociate professor at ‘Universiteit 10,8 15 existence of colluding self-learning University of Leiden and Eindhoven van Nederland’Assistant professor 16,5 23 algorithms in a cartel. Whether such University of Technology funded On 13 MarchPostdoc 2019 the 'Universiteit22 van Nederland' 31 , self-learning price algorithms exist with an NWO Gravitation Grant, an organisationPhD that promotes 39,8the public 50 is an unresolved question, but legal remains in full swing. It has already understandingTeaching staffof science, hosted2,8 an evening 3 scholars agree that algorithmic resulted in about 25 PhD defenses, dedicatedSupport to mathematics & management titled 3,65 ‘From Pi 14 to collusion is undesirable, yet – under five of which at the UvA. The current Grand total 46,75 150 Pythagoras’. Raf Bocklandt was one of the some circumstances – not forbidden phase of the programme is speakers to give a lecture to a live audience of by anti-trust law. The grant funds characterised by an intensification about 100 people. In his talk ‘How do you find one PhD position. of the ties with other disciplines. a hole in an invisible space?’ he explained how This resulted in an interdisciplinary mathematicians look for holes in abstract spaces workshop with researchers from and how these invisible holes can have peculiar economics and the social sciences, consequences in everyday life. With the help of exploring scope for further balloons, donuts, chocolate eggs and many other interaction. At KdVI the research props he showed how abstract mathematics line on transport and logistics, can be both fun and surprising. This event was which includes a joint project with recorded and the lectures are now publicly TNO, is also gaining momentum. available on the YouTube channel of the 'UniversiteitIvI van Nederland'. FTE Headcount FFull professor 8 11 Associate professor 10,3 12 SunnyAssistant and professorinteractive edition 15 16 of 'LevePostdoc de Wiskunde!' 20,3 23 PhD 95,5 96 On 5 April 2019 KdVI welcomed about 70 high school teachers of Teaching staff 20,6 24 mathematicsSupport and& management 60 of their students 19,8 for 23 the 17th edition of the 'Leve de Wiskunde!'Grand (Long total live Maths!) conference.189,5 205 The aim of this annual conference is to bring high school audiences in touch with the kind of mathematics that is studied and practiced at the university level. There were talks by Jan Wiegerinck, Arnoud den Boer, Erik Winands, Maris Ozols. Furthermore, Raf Bocklandt served up ‘The most delicious proofs in Geometry’ and Zoë Schroot got all participants to tie knots during her lecture ‘All tied up’. During the lunch break the participants could play outside with life-size mazes.

HIMS 36 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 FTE Headcount FFull professor 13,6 15 Associate professor 11 13 Assistant professor 7 7 Postdoc 16,9 19 PhD 68 68 Teaching staff 0 0 Support & management 21,4 23 Grand total 137,9 145

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Franz Berto: Impossible worlds HIMS Franz Berto, who teaches and works in logic and ontology at ILLC, FTE Headcount wrote a book together with Mark Jago, philosopher at the University FFull professor 13,6 15 of Nothingham, UK. ‘Impossible worlds’ is a book about the metaphysics Associate professor 11 13 of impossible worlds. It issues complex topics in metaphysics, logic, and Assistant professor 7 7 the philosophy of language. Postdoc 16,9 19 PhD 68 68 SyntaxTeaching meets staff Semantics0 0 Syntax SupportMeets Semantics& management (SYSMICS 21,4 2019) 23was the closing conferenceGrand of total the Horizon 2020137,9 Marie Curie 145 RISE project. The conference was held in January, in Amsterdam, and hosted by ILLC. Seventy participants from external and partner universities attended the meeting. The scope of the conference included algebraic, proof theoretic and relational approaches towards the study of non-classical logics. The programme also featured a public lecture in De Balie by Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) about logic and AI.

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instituten (API), biodiversity (IBED),chemistry initiative oftheinstitutesforastronomy AI4Science labwaslaunched.Ajoint • in thefieldofAI.’ exchange oftopresearchersandstudents intelligence inEuropeandfacilitatethe machine learningandartificial further strengthenourpositionin competitive inAI.ThisELLISUnitwill this importantmovementtomakeEurope has decidedtowholeheartedlysupport Institute: ‘IamveryexcitedthattheUvA Amsterdam, basedattheInformatics UvA andleaderoftheELLISUnitin professor ofMachineLearningatthe AI researchfieldsinEurope.Max Welling, talent inmachinelearningandrelated Systems (ELLIS)asan‘ELLISUnit’tokeep Laboratory forLearningandIntelligent • and 100startups. an AI-minoranddevelop100spin-offs students, have10,000studentsthatfollow 5,000 Bachelor’s, Master’s andPhD employ atleast800researchers,train explainable AI.Theaimsarehigh:to learning, hybridintelligenceand related technologicalareas:machine knowledge ofAI.Thefocuswillbeon educating studentswithstate-of-the-art programmes, attractingtopscientistsand next tenyears,bysettingupresearch responsible AItechnologiesoverthe 1 billioneurosinthedevelopmentof have joinedforcesandareinvesting Amsterdam, theUvAbeingoneofthem, • and retain AIresearch talentwithinEurope. networks thatare beingsetupwiththeaimtodevelopresponsible AItechnologies Informatics Instituteisakeyplayerinmanyoftheinitiatives,collaborationsand research onnewalgorithms,theirapplicationsandimpactsociety. The other research institutions,theUniversityofAmsterdam isconductinggroundbreaking Together withtheCityofAmsterdam, thebusinesscommunity, socialpartnersand research AI on focus investments: Smart IvI

At theFacultyofScience, The UvAwasselectedbytheEuropean The knowledgeinstitutionsof • Amsterdam. this consortium,ledbyVUUniversity Rijke andMaxWelling areattachedto intelligence. IvIprofessorsMaartende a combinationofartificialandhuman that willdevelophybridintelligence, grant, worth€19milliontoaconsortium Science (OCW)awardedaGravitation on ArtificialIntelligence). Technology, withaspecialemphasis Natali Helberger(LawandDigital Išgum (AIandMedicalImaging) Tobias Blanke(HumanitiesandAI),Ivana on AIindifferent disciplines.Theyare: further UniversityProfessorswith afocus UvA announcedtheappointedofthree Information Retrievalin2018,2019the appointed UniversityProfessorofAIand • Machine Learninglab(AMLab). embedded withinIvI’s Amsterdam of non-relevantdata?AI4Scienceis if theyarehiddenwithinlargeamounts predict relevantpatternsinscientificdata same: Howcanwedetect,classify, and the AI4Sciencelabaimstoansweris of scientificfields,theunderlyingquestion though theseprojectscoverawiderange gene regulationnetworks.Buteven bird migration,gravitationalwavesand radio phenomena,chemicalstructures, completely different fields:understanding focus willbeonfiveprojectsfrom machine learningapproaches.Theinitial scientific dataproblemswithmodern and physics(IoP),thelab’s aimistosolve (HIMS), informatics(IvI),lifesciences(SILS)

The MinistryofEducation,Cultureand With MaartendeRijkealready 38 vision andsecuredataexchange. information retrieval,computer knowledge ofdeeplearning, Informatics Institutewithits and ontheotherhand, all itslegalandethicalknowledge, one hand,theFacultyofLawwith learning. AndtheUvAhas,on learning andstatisticalmachine behaviour. CWIspecialisesindeep explainable AIandhuman knowledge aboutsafedatasharing, other wellinthisarea.TNOhas organisations complementeach public services.Thethree cooperative drivingandjustice areas, namelyautonomousand lie oncasestudiesintwoapplication Autonomous Systems’.Thefocuswill called ‘MeaningfulControlof their collaborationonaproject The UvA,TNOandCWIannounced driving autonomous on together Working

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instituten RESEARCH human-like? algorithms to be more How can we improve be appliedtoanotherdatasetand what youwant.Themodelcannot sports andsexism.‘Butthat’s not there isanassociationbetween sports’, thecomputerlearnsthat topics, forinstance‘womenin which wassampledfromspecific abusive languageinonedataset, When amodelistrainedtodetect due tohowthedatawerecollected. often havebiasesintheirdatasets, that candothisworktoo,butthey are machinelearningtechniques done manually, Shutovasays.There A lotofonlinemoderationisstill comments insocialmediaposts. that detectssexistandracist of amachinelearningtechnique she nowworksonthedevelopment London andaFacebookresearcher a collaboratorfromKing’s College detection. With twostudents, a projectonabusivelanguage awarded herwithagrantfor Computation. In2019Facebook E language inonlinecomments. they convey, andworksonalgorithmsthatdetectabusive she createsmodelsofthemeaningtextsandemotions computers understandlanguagelikehumansdo.To thisend Understanding LabatILLC.Shedevelopswaystomake Ekaterina ShutovaisleadingtheAmsterdamNaturalLanguage for Logic,Languageand researcher attheInstitute katerina Shutovaisa the lab.That’s verygratifying.’ not somethingwejustdevelopat has asocietalimpact,’shesays.‘Itis ‘It’s nicethatmyfundamental work the collaborationwithFacebook. developing thistechnique,andlikes She isstillintheprocessof data byaddingnewtexts.’ ‘If wefindany, weimprovethe explicitly checkforbiases.Shutova: she usesstatisticalmodelsto After severalroundsofannotation then drawsaselectionofcomments. politics andenvironmentalism, selects awiderangeoftopics,like dataset thatisnotbiased.Soshe Therefore shewantstocreatea she explains. may learnincorrectassociations,’ University ofCaliforniaat Cambridge andapostdocatthe University, followed byaPhDin mathematics atSt.PetersburgState Shutova studiedlinguisticsand Processing Language Natural 40 Intelligence arecombined. logic, psychologyandArtificial language, neurobiology, maths, these questions,knowledgeabout digital applications?To answer patterns thatareusableforsmart And howcanwemodellanguage language workinthehumanbrain? mechanism oflanguage?Howdoes answer questionslike:Whatisthe Scientific researchinNLPaimsto communicate withmachines. automatically translatetextsand to extractinformation, technologies thatallowtheirusers Processing (NLP)develops The fieldofNaturalLanguage (NLP). Natural LanguageProcessing the UvAasassistantprofessorof Berkeley. Since2018sheworksat improve ourmodelstobemore in thefieldofNLP:howcanwe contribute toanotherbigquestion Shutova’s researchinterests and emotions composition Semantic FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY SMART An increasingly complex and data-rich world calls upon our widely recognised expertise in fields such as language processing, networks, data science, quantum technology, computational science and artificial intelligence. Collaborations such as those Ekaterina Shutova conducts with Facebook, but also for example the public-private partnership labs in the Innovation Centre for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), are a testament to the Faculty of Science’s position as a ‘smart’ partner in have a big dataset for every task, research. This position will be further solidified with the build of LAB42, a co-creation building scenario or language. The solution for the information sciences at Amsterdam Science Park. LAB42 is to open in 2022 and will be is to design an algorithm that is able home to our Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in computer science, information science, to learn from small numbers of artificial intelligence and logic. It will also house the Informatics Institute and the Institute for examples.’ This field is called meta- Logic, Language and Computation, as well as co-creation labs. learning. Together with several students, she works on this new area of research at the moment.

human-like? She is interested in sentence could mean that you Working at UvA modelling emotions: how can you enjoyed watching a film, or that Shutova enjoys working at the interpret the difference between the you enjoyed shooting a film. UvA. She has interesting colleagues, actual content of a sentence and the Depending on the context.’ She likes teaching and is inspired by affect a speaker expresses? models the meanings of sentences the extremely motivated students. ‘If someone says I feel drained, like this using mathematical models ‘There’s a lot of NLP and Artificial the word drained itself doesn’t and ‘deep’ learning algorithms. Intelligence research going on at the have a negative impact,’ Shutova UvA. At ILLC we conduct research explains. ‘But if you feel drained, Human-like learning on machine translation, dialogue it has a negative meaning. It means algorithms systems, interpretation of NLP you’re tired.’ But researchers working with such models and semantics, with leading deep learning models, face a major researchers in each of the areas. She also specialises in semantic problem: the models are not easy to I also like the fact that all different composition models. That means adapt to new application contexts. areas of AI are well represented at she focuses on the fact that there’s Just like in the earlier mentioned the university, with very strong a difference between what words Facebook example: when a situation machine learning, computer vision mean, and what these words mean changes a bit, the model doesn’t and information retrieval groups at when they are put together in work anymore. ‘When you train the Institute of Informatics. Many a sentence. Shutova: ‘Take the models, you need large amounts of universities only excel in one or just example: I enjoyed the film. This data,’ tells Shutova. ‘But you cannot a few of these areas.’ ■

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In 2019, the UvA launched spin-off company SusPhos, with the aim to contribute to a circular economy in phosphorus and to establish a sustainable use of this resource. As a key ingredient in fertilisers, phosphorus is essential for feeding the world-population. Phosphate fertilisers approximately double the amount of food that can be produced in agriculture. In addition, phosphates are used in flame-retardants and many other products. Mysterious solubilities However, phosphorus is also a scarce element; most is lost in water bodies of PEG and POM polyethers after consumption, leading to algae growth and pollution. Because of the finally resolved current unrenewable fossil mining, recovering phosphorus from waste Chemists from HIMS and the Max streams is essential to secure future availability of this precious element. Planck Institute in Mainz were able to explain the counterintuitive Marissa de Boer, Chris Slootweg and Bas de Jong – researchers at HIMS – behaviour of polyoxymethylene developed and patented the SusPhos technology. It is the first technology to (POM) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) use phosphorus-containing waste material such as struvite as a resource, and in water. PEG, a common ingredient upcycle it to competitive high-quality products such as fertilisers and high-end in cosmetic products, dissolves flame-retardants. It has the potential to completely change the phosphate perfectly in water. Its molecular market that currently still relies on fossil resources. At the same time, the repeat unit contains slightly technology helps to tackle the issue of uncontrolled algae growth caused by negatively charged oxygen atoms, phosphorus-containing waste streams. which makes the polymer hydrophilic. POM however, has 2019 was a very successful year for the company SusPhos and its research relatively more oxygen but instead staff at HIMS, receiving many grants, prizes and a loan. The Innovation Fund forms an insoluble hard plastic, Noord-Holland provided the company a convertible loan of €300,000, which known to every chemist from the allows the building of a pilot plant in 2020. SusPhos CEO Marissa de Boer Keck clips used in chemistry labs. received the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2019 and a €7,500 Bernd Ensing found that the oxygen cheque for further development. Dutch science foundation NWO and Holland atoms in POM are less charged Chemistry gave SusPhos the ‘Gouden KIEM’ for best Dutch start-up in because there are fewer carbon chemistry. And PhD student Steven Beijer won the Unilever Research Prize atoms to borrow charge from. This 2019 for his Master’s research entitled ‘Creating valuable phosphorus induction hypothesis was elegantly products from low-value feedstocks.’ proved by computer simulations of fictitious modified POM molecules Lastly, Chris Slootweg, Associate Professor at HIMS, received a KIEM GoChem carrying PEG-like charges. It then grant to further develop the SusPhos process, so that magnesium and dissolved perfectly in water. The ammonium salts can be recycled from waste streams too. results were published in Nature Communications.

43 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 Measuring nitrogen deposition around two dairy farms an agreement was In November, signed in which the Mesdag Dairy Fund commissioned IBED researchers Emiel van Loon and Albert Tietema, Roland Bol to measure the reach and quantity of nitrogen deposition around dairy farms and in nature conservation areas. The research is aimed at determining the distribution pattern of the nitrogen deposition around the source by using methods that can determine the actual nitrogen deposition in the soil. Thus far these quantities were only calculated based on models. The researchers will initially focus on measuring the distribution of deposition around two dairy farms, both located near natural areas (heath or forest). How far does the influence of the company on the environment extend? Is it a few hundred meters, which means that most of the nitrogen ends up on the farm yard, or is it a matter of kilometers and are sensitive natural The project will areas affected? last three years an there will be substantive contact with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).

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How did baleen our become whales planet’s giants? NIOZ) and an international team of researchers Fleur Visser (IBED and to be such journal Science why baleen whales evolved published in scientific divided others did not. Whales and dolphins can be huge animals, and why baleen whales and toothed whales that hunt into two groups: filter-feeding can only be maintained if the one prey at a time. Extremely large body size and consistently greater than energy intake during foraging is considerably concluded The researchers the energy released during the search for prey. performance because they that baleen whales achieve unparalleled foraging fish and krill at once, while toothed can swallow enormous amounts of water, prey. whales are often limited by the supply of their they Visser: ‘Ultimately, bigger. It is unlikely that baleen whales will get even abundant prey and the are limited by the maximum availability of seasonally limit seems to have been speed at which they can eat them – here, the reached.’ LMAS-DRAM / 2018/01 (Scientific Director IBED). Photo:

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47 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM Gert-Jan Gruter is an expert in the field of sustainable plastics. He applies his knowledge of plastics and recycling to LEGO bricks, new sustainable packaging and textiles, and making

plastic from CO2. He also writes regular columns for Chemistry Today, in which he addresses misunderstandings surrounding plastics and recycling.

There are a lot of misunderstandings with regard to plastics and recycling

ecently Gert-Jan Gruter has then create a separate recycling flow his doctoral research project there been engaged with LEGO for each colour,’ he explains. ‘That’s on ring-shaped molecules that can Ragain. Not actually playing why LEGO wants to replace its link into each other. ‘That was with it like he used to, but in order pieces with a more sustainable super-fundamental research,’ he to change the material from which plastic that can easily be recycled says about this, while he believes the toy is made. Ever since the into new bricks.’ that now he’s one of the most 1960s the little coloured bricks have applied researchers at the HIMS. been made from the high-quality But a LEGO brick has to meet a plastic ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene lot of criteria: the material must Besides this, for the last twenty styrene). ‘This makes them very be strong, have some flexibility – years he has been Chief Technology durable and expensive, and they certainly not too rigid because these Officer at Avantium, a company can certainly be used for two bricks have to be clicked onto each that develops plastics on the basis generations,’ says Gruter. But the other countless times – and the of natural raw materials. Gruter little bricks of ABS are made of material must not show signs of explains: ‘Our philosophy is that fossil raw materials and cannot be ageing. Gruter and a PhD student for all materials we only want to recycled effectively. ‘First you have have now developed a number of make use of carbon that is already to sort the pieces by colour and polyesters that have a chance of above the ground: biomass, CO2 meeting the LEGO quality and recycling are the only options requirements and also of being here.’ chemically recyclable. ‘LEGO has GREEN already started the first tests,’ he PEF instead of PET The transition to a sustainable, circular economy is one says. One of Avantium’s flagship projects of the most important developments in society today. is PEF (polyethylene furanoate), The Faculty of Science has much to offer in addressing From fundamental a plastic made from woodchips, this challenge, from expertise in developing alternative to applied research starch or beet pulp. A year from energy sources, to finding green ways for crop protection Since 2016 Gert-Jan Gruter has now, in the town of Delfzijl, the and – indeed – the development of biodegradable been affiliated with the UvA as first factory will open that will plastics. Through collaborations with industry and professor by special appointment deliver PEF to companies such founding our own spin-offs such as Plantics, a producer of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry. as bottle manufacturers that until of bio-materials, we bring those solutions to life. He studied organic chemistry at VU now have used the plastic PET, University Amsterdam and also did which is made from fossil fuels.

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In addition, the company is These misunderstandings also exist bottle replaces 25 PET bottles.’ working on techniques to make with regard to recycling. ‘You often The research has also revealed that plastics from CO2. With the help read that if you recycle 80 percent, consumers don’t recognise biobased of electricity and oxygen the CO2 you also need 80 percent less raw plastics. ‘There are around 25 logos is first converted into formic acid, materials. That’s not true because that indicate that plastic packaging then into oxalic acid and then into many plastics downcycle.’ This is sustainable, biobased or plastic. ‘Because polyester-based means that plastics that were compostable,’ he says. ‘So we need plastic always requires alcohols originally packaging are later turned to do more about communication and acids,’ explains Gruter. into road reflector posts or waste and recognisability. Make all bins. ‘At a certain moment the biobased plastics red, for example.’ Working at the UvA plastic is of such poor quality that The professorship by special it is burned as waste and released Think tank appointment at the UvA gives as energy and CO2.’ Only two Dean Peter van Tienderen recently Gruter the chance to conduct percent of all plastics is recyclable set up a think tank at the Faculty research into other sustainable on a closed-loop basis, meaning that of Science on the theme of ‘Green’, plastics, into the biological time after time a plastic remains says Gruter. He is one of the degradability of plastics such as pure enough to stay the same participants. ‘Sustainability is an PEF and he also has time to write product. important theme for HIMS and the columns for the scientific journal Faculty of Science, but the UvA Chemistry Today about plastics Sense of guilt doesn’t really have a profile yet and recycling. There are a lot of Besides this, Gruter is also taking when it comes to ‘green research’. misunderstandings in this area, he part in a totally different research I think that the UvA can really says. ‘For instance, biopolymers project. Together with social boost this by researching plastics. and bioplastics are plastics made psychologist Frenk van Harreveld Plastic has so many facets: in terms by nature itself, such as cellulose, (UvA) he is researching what of health, psychology, philosophy, DNA and starch. But then you also consumers think about sustainable biology and legal aspects. After all, have biobased polymers, which are packaging and what they would be in recent years the environment and plastics made in a factory from prepared to pay for this. ‘People climate change have really become natural raw materials. These don’t feel guilty about their use of plastic. one of the most important issues for automatically degrade when they This is why those reusable Dopper humanity.’ ■ enter the environment.’ bottles are such a success. Each

49 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM RESEARCH Prizes, honours & awards

Prof. Peter Schoenmakers (HIMS) The winners were offered a trip Together with two international was awarded the 2019 Dal Nogare to Silicon Valley where they colleagues Dr Samaya Nissanke award for his achievements in the can learn how to scale up their (IoP) received the New Horizons field of chromatography. The Dal innovation. Prize, which recognises early- Nogare award of the career achievements in physics Chromatography Forum of the and mathematics. They developed Delaware Valley honours scientists Dr Selma de Mink and Prof. Sera novel techniques to extract for their significant contributions Markoff (API), were honoured for fundamental physics from to the fundamental understanding their outstanding contributions astronomical data. of the chromatographic process. to astronomy. De Mink received the Pastoor Schmeitsprijs for her research on heavy stars, Prof. Willem Bouten (IBED) PhD student Tessel Bouwens the precursors of supernovae received an honourable at the (HIMS) won the Poster Prize at and black holes. Markoff won 2019 Impact Awards mention for the Royal Society of Chemistry's the Willem de Graaff prize for his important contribution to the Faraday Discussion on Artificial her public outreach activities. valorisation of ecological research, Photosynthesis, held March in She regularly goes to schools based on his work on developing Cambridge. On her prize-winning to introduce young children lightweight GPS trackers for birds. poster, Bouwens presented a 'Ring to astronomy and organised Launching Solar Cell'. With this a stargazing evening combined concept she proposes to solve the with an iftar celebration during In September 2019 the Event problem of charge recombination Ramadan. Horizon Telescope collaboration in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells was awarded the Breakthrough by using pseudorotaxanes. Prize in Fundamental Physics. Historian of Physics Prof. Jeroen The prize goes to the 347 scientists van Dongen (IoP) was invited to that co-authored the six papers In May two Faculty of Science give the prestigious Elizabeth that announced the first image spin-offs won the Academic Paris Public Engagement Lecture of a supermassive black hole, Startup Competition. Kepler during the annual American taken by means of an Earth-sized Vision Technologies, originating History of Science Society meeting alliance of telescopes. Among the at IvI and founded by Harro that took place in Utrecht in July. laureates are API’s Sera Markoff, Stokman, develops computer His lecture was about the Oliver Porth, Koushik Chatterjee vision and machine learning historiography of science, in and Doosoo Yoon. technology that enables body which ‘provincialising Europe’ language recognition in videos. has become an important theme, Erik Manders at SILS founded while the field itself is centered Confocal.nl in 2016, which around a predominantly American established a breakthrough in literature. confocal microscopy technique.

50 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 Obituaries

Lorentz Fellowship for Tom Gregorkiewicz 1950-2019 Hal Caswell On 7 July 2019, beloved colleague In January 2019 ecologist Prof. Hal Tom Gregorkiewicz (IoP) unexpectedly Caswell (IBED) was awarded the but peacefully passed away. Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship Gregorkiewicz received his Master’s 2019/20 for his research on degree in experimental physics from mathematical models of population Warsaw University, after which he dynamics. This fellowship will allow earned his PhD degree with research him to develop better models to study on implantation defects in silicon. human, animal, plant and even cell In 1985 he joined the University of population dynamics. In September he Amsterdam, where he was Professor was also awarded the Rollie Lamberson of Optoelectronic Materials since 2003. Award together with a group of Gregorkiewicz’s group garnered great mathematicians from the University of international recognition for their Louisiana, for their outstanding paper work on the physics behind the about population's recovery processes potential of efficiently harvesting following a disturbance. and managing solar power using semiconductor nanocrystals. After officially reaching the Athira Menon wins retirement age, Gregorkiewicz 1st and 2nd prize in actively chose to continue his FameLab finals research. He was an inspiring Athira Menon, postdoc at ApI, won researcher, mentor and teacher the Dutch final of FameLab on 9 May. and possessed a great drive. His A month later she earned a shared enthusiasm in teaching and research second place in the international are sorely missed. FameLab final, leaving behind some of the most talented science communicators from 31 countries. Anne Troelstra 1939-2019 FameLab is a pitch competition for On 7 March, Anne Troelstra sadly young researchers, in which they have passed away at the age of 79. only three minutes to explain their As emeritus professor of Pure research to the general public. Menon Mathematics and the Foundations impressed the audience and the jury of Mathematics, Anne was still with her pitch about gravitational regularly seen at ILLC. waves and things that happen after Beginning in 1957 as a mathematics a supernova. student, he remained at the UvA all his life, except for a number of visiting professorships. Between 1970 to 2000 he was full professor and became the recognised authority on intuitionism and constructivism. During his career Anne trained numerous students and PhD candidates, and he continued to fulfil an active role at ILLC after his retirement. We remember Anne as an honest, open and supportive colleague with a sharp intellect.

51 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM Lex Kaper was appointed professor of Observational Astrophysics and Instrument Development, and he was appointed as the Faculty of Science’s vice-dean and director

RESEARCH of education. Kaper studies the formation, evolution and death of massive stars. He also focuses on gamma-ray bursts – the cosmic explosions in which gamma radiation is released – using them to investigate the properties of distant galaxies. Kaper is the Principal Investigator for X-shooter, the Annemarie van Wezel world’s most powerful spectrograph, which was mounted on was appointed ESO’s Very Large Telescope in 2009. professor of Environmental Ecology and director of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics. Van Wezel’s research combines chemistry, toxicology and Alfons Hoekstra was appointed professor environmental policy. As professor, of Computational Science & Engineering. she will focus primarily on chemical Hoekstra’s research focuses on modelling and processes in aquatic and terrestrial simulating complex systems, with an emphasis on ecosystems and their impact on multiscale models of human physiology and pathology. living organisms, including human As professor, Hoekstra will concentrate on various applications of the health. In her teaching, she will ‘Virtual Physiological Human’, like the simulations of coronary stents and also focus on environmental acute cerebral infarction, and fundamental and applied research into chemistry and risk assessment. haemostasis and thrombosis. He will also investigate how supercomputers could calculate the impact of uncertainties in multiscale models.

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In Januari, Marta Volonteri was Peter Coveney was named professor by special appointment of Applied named professor by special High Performance Computing. The chair was established on behalf appointment of Black Hole of the Science Plus Foundation. His current work focuses on Formation and Growth. The chair highly scalable methods for virtual human scale simulation of was established on behalf of the blood flow, and molecular dynamics for applications in drug Science Plus Foundation (Stichting discovery and personalised drug treatment. As professor by Bèta Plus). Volonteri’s research special appointment, Coveney will research and develop focuses on the evolution of the codes which run efficiently on the largest peta- and exascale massive black holes residing architectures, aimed at building complex problem-solving in the centre of galaxies in environments. connection to the cosmic evolution of galaxies. As professor by special appointment she will carry out research on the physics of accretion and energy/momentum injection by black holes.

Inge Huitinga was named professor Jaap van Buul was Linda Amaral- by special appointment of Neuro- named professor by Zettler was named immunology, specialising in the special appointment of professor by special pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS). Molecular Cell Biology of appointment of Marine The chair is initiated by the Cell Migration. The chair was Microbiology. The chair was established Netherlands Institute for established on behalf of the Sanquin on behalf of NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) Foundation. Van Buul will focus on Institute for Sea Research). Her research at behest of the Dutch MS implementing advanced microscopic focuses on the relationships between Research Foundation. Huitinga techniques in functional cell microbes and the mechanisms that studies the molecular and biological processes such as the determine their diversity, distribution, cellular factors underlying MS. migrating white blood cells in their survival and impact on local and global As professor she will be attempt to pass through the vascular processes. Serving as a link between the researching the role of the wall. He is the co-founder and chair complementary expertise and resources immune system in psychiatric disorders of the Dutch Endothelial Biology at both NIOZ and IBED, the chair she such as depression and bipolar disorder. Society and president of the Dutch holds will facilitate collaborative She remains director of the Netherlands Society for Cell Biology. research on aquatic microbial ecology Brain Bank and leader of Neuro- at the highest international level. immunology group at the NIN-KNAW.

52 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 In July, Anna Watts was appointed Gianfranco Bertone was appointed professor of Theoretical professor of High-Energy Astroparticle Physics. Bertone conducts research at the Astrophysics, in particular relativistic intersection between particle physics, cosmology, and nuclear astrophysics. Watts studies astrophysics. In his work, he has in particular been neutron stars. Her goal is to contributing to the modern quest for dark matter. As understand the processes which professor, Bertone will be exploring new ways to identify drive their rotation and the violent dark matter by taking advantage of the opportunities dynamical events such as thermo- arising from upcoming astronomical surveys and nuclear explosions, magnetic flares gravitational wave observations. and starquakes. As professor she will focus on nuclear astrophysics in relativistic compact objects. Full professors

Sander Woutersen was appointed professor of Physical Chemistry. Woutersen’s will use the latest spectroscopic methods to focus on issues at the interface of chemistry and physics. In recent years, he studied the mechanisms behind protein folding and the formation of amyloids, catalysis, proton transport, and the movement of molecular machines. As professor he will focus primarily on unravelling dynamic molecular structures, molecular self- assembly and soft matter at the molecular level. 2019

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Herma Cuppen was named professor by special appointment of Simulation of Restructuring in Molecular Solids. The chair was designated on behalf of the Science Plus Foundation. Cuppen studies molecular movements in solids, which initiate processed that can ultimately be seen at the macroscopic scale, and can – for instance – have a decisive influence on the shelf life of drugs. She will combine her chair at the UvA with her chair of Computational Chemistry at Radboud University.

Benny Åkesson was named professor by special appointment of Design Methodologies for Cyber-Physical Systems. The chair was established on behalf of TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). Åkesson specialises in the areas of model-based engineering and real-time systems. The goal of this research is to reduce the development time and cost of complex cyber-physical systems, particularly in high-tech industries, such as In July, Jan-Willem den Herder manufacturing systems, cars, medical equipment and aircrafts. was named professor by special appointment of High-Energy Astrophysics, in particular Space Instrumentation. The chair was established on behalf of the Jan Leon Gommans was named professor by special appointment of Data van Paradijs Fund. Den Herder is Exchange Systems. The chair was designated on behalf of the Science Plus primarily involved in the Foundation. Gommans conducts research into systems that enable development of new satellites data exchange based on digital data marketplaces. Within the for use in high-energy astrophysics. scope of his chair Gommans will study generically applicable He will focus on strengthening base models that make it possible to securely share data collaboration between the UvA between autonomous parties. Gommans is one of the and SRON on this subject. Future driving forces behind Amsterdam Data Exchange Professors by special appointment instruments required for missions (AMDEX). that are tasked with very precisely observing time-dependent information, will benefit from this.

53 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM A selectionofprojectswithsocietalimpactgrantedin2019 & society & Science study themechanism behind resistance inmicrobes. Theywill mechanisms ofantibiotic Safety Authority(NVWA) tostudy Food andConsumerProduct funding fromtheNetherlands Prof. BennoterKuile,received led byProf.StanleyBruland A teamofmicrobiologistsatSILS, STUDY ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE OF MECHANISMS FUNDS NVWA as possible. practice asquicklyandefficiently in ordertoputtheresultsinto and behaviouralpsychologists Alzheimer scientists,clinicians share theirfindingswith brain. Kesselsandhisteamwill activated inanactivelearning how thesemechanismscanbe brain againstAlzheimer'sand protection mechanismofthe research onthenatural Helmut Kessels(SILS)toconduct awarded €555,555toProf. The DutchBrainFoundation RESEARCHALZHEIMER'S FOR GRANT VALORISATION with a€5million grant.The Studies oftheExplosive Universe for Optimal,Real-Time Machine awarded CORTEX –theCenter The NationalScienceAgenda UNIVERSE THE IN EXPLOSIONS FOR HUNT MACHINES SELF-LEARNING and blockchain. intelligence, cloudcomputing image processing,artificial edge technologies,suchasdigital environment basedoncutting- automated digitaldiagnostic They willaimtodeveloparobust Grant tofundtwoPhDstudents. management. HereceivedaEU oriented algorithmsfordata lead theworkpackageofCloud For pathologY(CLARIFY)andwill the CLoudARtificialIntelligence Dr ZhimingZhao(IvI)willjoin PATHOLOGY DIGITAL ON RESEARCH FOR EU FUNDING a roleinfoodsafety. resistance inbacteriathatplay newly emergingantibiotic across allagegroups. team reachesthousandsofchildrenandgrown-ups research. Throughvariousactivities,ourOutreach general publictodemonstratethevalueofour partnerships. We alsoreachouttoschoolsandthe through researchconsortiaandpublic-private and internationalcollaborations,funded activities thatareoftenconductedinlargenational of applicationsforthebenefitsocietyatlarge; activities thataregearedtowardsthedevelopment At theFacultyofScienceweparticipateinresearch 54 greenhouse gases methaneand an efficient transformationof a year. Slootwegaimstodevelop changes varyoverthecourseof altered andwhetherthese areas havebeenchemically different typesofpolleninurban conduct researchintowhether Slootweg (HIMS).Goslingwill and chemistryresearcherDrChris Dr WilliamGosling(IBED), paleoecology researcher funded theproposalsof Idea Generatorprogramme The NationalScienceAgenda’s RESEARCHERS TWO FOR FUNDING PROGRAMME GENERATOR IDEA and DrAntoniaRowlinson. Leeuwen, DrSamayaNissanke researchers include:DrJoerivan The participatingIoPandAPI systems thatbenefitoursociety. explosions work,andinnovate out howmassivecosmic learning machinesfaster, figure work togethertomakeself- industry andsociety, whowill 12 partnersfromacademia, CORTEX consortiumconsistsof of fouryears. 15 PhDstudentsoveraperiod The grantwillbeusedtohire (IoP) willcoordinatethenetwork. networks. ProfFlorianSchreck ultra-fast telecommunication for instanceinsynchronising science, technologyandsociety, and havemanyapplicationsin technology, will beultra-precise making useofmodernquantum quantum clocks.Theseclocks, Innovative Training Networkfor supports thenewMoSaiQC The EuropeanCommission FOR QUANTUM CLOCKS NETWORK TRAINING INNOVATIVEEC FUNDS society. the carboncycleandawaste-free contribute totheoptimisationof chemical aceticacid,whichwill carbon dioxideintotheplatform FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY

By appealing to people’s natural curiosity it’s possible to make tricky scientific principles accessible

Joséphine Blaazer, How do you use your PhD student of plant- own research or skills herbivore interactions at for supporting school IBED, talks about what she activities? does to introduce younger In the course of my doctoral generations to science research I’ve discovered that I really and to show them how it enjoy teaching. What’s more, this is impacts life as they know it. very relevant work: many people have ornamental plants at home or Can you tell us a bit about grow fresh herbs or tomatoes, and your research? these too can be plagued by fungi In 2016 I started my PhD project or small insects. By appealing to on the subject of plant-herbivore people’s natural curiosity it’s interactions. With the main focus possible to make tricky scientific on crop protection I’m seeking a principles and insights accessible to way of making plants resistant to all. We work with as many different pests such as insects, caterpillars organisms as possible: from tiny and mites in a sustainable way, mites to fat caterpillars, from making the use of harmful tomatoes to beans and tobacco pesticides unnecessary. This is plants. We also often get asked how important, because many pesticides we can protect cannabis plants from are really bad for the environment, mites. So you can see that the gap but we’re also under major pressure between science and society is much to produce enough food to feed smaller than people often think. the world. Do you have any advice What made you decide for other researchers to engage in science who want to take part education for children? in outreach?

Locations visited by our Outreach van in 2019 I think it’s really special to teach If you’re passionate about your children, and adults for that matter, subject, then outreach activities are about where food comes from and a fantastic way of communicating the route it has taken before your passion, especially when you landing on our plates. The origin combine it with carrying out small of crops is an issue that’s ever more experiments. I can still remember removed from us, while it’s actually what I did and saw at the so important: not only in my information session for Biology, research area of food supply, but almost ten years ago. So if you take also in view of climate change. part in outreach you have an By showing the possibilities of opportunity to make a big and biology and technology, I hope lasting impression on school to inspire others. students. For instance, we’ll show live prey-predator battles under the microscope on tomato plants, and OUTREACH even if this takes place on a small In 2019 our Outreach team organised 227 activities scale – literally! – kids are really for children aged 4-18, with a combined total of impressed when they see this. If ten 11,561 participants. The annual Science Park years from now they are students, Open Day in October drew roughly 1,500 visitors. or maybe even scientists, who still Every month a scientist from the Faculty of Science gives remember this, then I’ve succeeded! a children’s lecture at NEMO Science Museum and we have a pool of around 65 students going out to schools across the country in our Outreach van.

55 UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM ORGANISATION Science4all what we are doing to promote diversity and inclusion

The Faculty of Science aims to be an inclusive community where every person, regardless of race, gender or cultural background, feels welcome and valued. In our policies and in our actions we strive to stimulate diversity and inclusion in our Faculty community.

Grassroots In March 2019 we EDUHUB ALTAIR+ INCLUSIVE AI FIELD TRIP started the grassroots Khaled Tamimy (student), Sera Markoff (staff), Sulayman TO BNAIC/BENELEARN programme Science4all. Erik van Halewijn (student), el Mathari (student), Marieke 2019 Staff and students were Jeroen Goedkoop (staff), Hohnen (staff) and Rasjied Sloot Maximilian Isle (PhD Candidate) invited to apply for Bart Groeneveld (staff) (staff) Six mentors from the Inclusive financial support for EduHub is a social initiative that Neighbourhood children and AI initiative at IvI took their projects aimed at aims to stimulate inclusiveness their families were invited to mentees on a field trip to the improving diversity and in education by acknowledging an ‘Evening of Knowledge’ and BNAIC/BENELEARN 2019 inclusivity at the Faculty the starting position of future Iftar (a festive breaking of the conference in Brussels, with of Science. Granted students. In this project Faculty daily fast) during Ramadan. financial support from a projects were: of Science students give free Through a series of activities the Grassroots Science4all grant. study support to pupils from project aims to increase interest UvA-IAI takes its inspiration a lower socio-economic and participation in STEM fields from organisations such as Black background in the Amsterdam within the local community, in AI, Women in ML and Queer East neighbourhood close to increasing the diversity of our in AI, which all aim to celebrate Amsterdam Science Park. The public events as well as hopefully diversity and foster participation students visit a local community the number of incoming BSc from underrepresented groups centre and the school pupils visit students from the neighbourhood, in AI. In the IAI initiative, young Science Park 904. The activities were also aimed AI researchers establish a similar at promoting a sense of local space for Master's students connectedness and inclusivity. Artificial Intelligence at the UvA.

56 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 ASPIRE: ASTRONOMY SUMMER PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE The Anton Pannekoek Institute Science4all for Astronomy welcomed eight international students for its inaugural edition of the Astronomy Summer Programme for International Research Experience (Aspire). The goal of the programme is to offer research experience to students from countries or groups where opportunities to do research is scarce. The Master's and Bachelor's level students spent 10 weeks at the astronomy institute, working on individual research projects advised by postdoctoral fellows. The group consisted of six women and two men and come from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, El Salvador, Kenya, Pakistan, Venezuela, and Zambia.

ORGANIC COUTURE WITH A QUEER MESSAGE Iza Awad, (student), Raoul Frese (staff) As part of his minor at the Hybrid forms lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Iza Awad - student in the joint UvA-VU Chemistry Master's – developed a new organic Kombucha fabric. He presented this fabric in a fashion show that included a queer message. For the production of the clothing pieces, Awad used a living organic Kombucha fabric, consisting of Kombucha Bacterial Cellulose. With his biodegradable 'living fashion', Awad aims to reform the idea of fashion, and take a step towards a future where sustainable inclusive fashion is the standard. Awad, who identifies as queer himself, is a vocal supporter of the lhbt+- community and uses his collection to send a queer message. 'I want nobody to feel excluded by my collection. I don't care whether you're a man, woman, non-binary person, full-figured or slim; everybody belongs in this world, and my fashion is for everyone.'

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MACHIEL KEESTRA APPOINTED AS DIVERSITY OFFICER In 2019 Machiel Keestra was appointed as the new Diversity Officer for the Faculty of Science. Diversity is an important theme in Keestra's work. As philosopher, he is attached to the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, where he teaches classes in philosophy of science and interdisciplinary research methods in the Natural and Social Sciences Bachelor's programme and the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Together with several guest lecturers, he also teaches in the UvA elective course ‘Diversity: Navigating a Cultural and Political Minefield’. His research with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation focuses on the emergence of 'neuro-disciplines' such as neuro-ethics and neuro-anthropology. As part of the research group ‘Neurocultures & Neuroaesthetics’, he studies how the diversity of perspectives in such interdisciplinary topics can be optimally utilised.

He is supported in his work as Diversity Officer by student assistant Marwa Ahmed and the Faculty’s Diversity Sounding Board. the announcement of ECHO-grant Halewijn and Artur Moeijes (Diversity Talks) after (Faculty of Science), Khaled Tamimy, Erik van Talks), Bart Groeneveld and Jeroen Goedkoop From left to right: Fatiya Munkaila (Diversity ECHO-FUNDING FOR STUDENT IMPACT CENTRE In 2019 the Faculty of Science was awarded an ‘ECHO’-grant worth €200,000 by the minister of Education, Culture and Science for a proposal to set up a Student Impact Centre at the Faculty. The aim of the Student Impact Centre is to support, coordinate and shape initiatives by students that are aimed at making a societal impact. There are already several of such initiatives at the Faculty, including the aforemention EduHub. One key objective of the Student Impact Centre is to narrow the gap in access to university education between school children from richer and poorer economic backgrounds, which often coincides with differences in cultural background.

In addition, the Student Impact Centre aims to stimulate students to develop their competences in societal engagement. Jeroen Goedkoop, project leader in the area of narrowing the education gap and was one of the applicants for the grant: ‘Besides setting up the platform and organising the activities, we see a role for students in making the Faculty of Science’s study associations more inclusive as well as fostering a more inclusive environment in our Faculty in general.’ The Student Impact Centre also fits with the UvA Education Vision, which includes student engagement as an important theme. Goedkoop: ‘If this pilot proves successful, it might be rolled out the UvA as a whole.’

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studentenstudenten 2019 FNWI ainlt tf academic nationality staff tbv schetsen scientific staff h addts 81 12 10 22 16 Support andmanagementstaff PhD candidates Postdocs Assistant professors Associate professors Full professors To IoP 535 498 International staff National staff To 102 553 rest 79 Lecturers andPhDcandidates Postdocs Assistant professors Associate professors Professors To 318 715 female male To tal fte 1033 tal tal 1033 tal 41 182 ????23???? 208 88 1033 teaching andsupport Georgia France Finland Estonia Denmark Republic Czech Cyprus Croatia China Canada Bulgaria Brazil Belize Belgium Azerbaijan Austria Australia MA studentsm/v students BAm/v MA studentsNL/international EEA: EuropeanEconomicArea 2019-2020 EXCHANGE STUDENTS

UGIGSUET E NON-EEA EEA OUTGOING STUDENTS NON-EEA EEA INCOMING STUDENTS ORGANISATION nationalities figures & Facts Paraguay Nigeria Myanmar Mexico Malta Luxembourg Lithuania Latvia Italy Ireland Iraq Iran Indonesia India Iceland Hungary Greece Germany countries countries students students 142 23 21 72 EEA 7 ItalyUKFrance 6 NorwayFrance Azerbaijan Austria Australia Vietnam US UK Turkey Taiwan Syria Switzerland Sweden Spain Slovenia Slovakia Russia Romania Portugal Poland EXCHANGE STUDENTS 9Germany 8 Sweden 8 Spain 28 UK 47 15 14 57 112 77 11 65 OUTGOING INCOMING TOP 3 3 2 1 3 2 1 Singapore 11 Australia 12 Canada 13US Australia 2 US 3China Canada 5 60 Hungary Greece Germany Georgia France Finland Estonia Denmark Republic Czech Cyprus Croatia China Canada Bulgaria Brazil Belize Belgium NON EEA Romania Portugal Poland Paraguay Nigeria Myanmar Mexico Malta Luxembourg Lithuania Latvia Italy Ireland Iraq Iran Indonesia India Iceland nationality students FULLTIME 2019-2020 MSc STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL students international 341 nationalities 51 FACULTY OF SCIENCE 2019 SCIENCE OF FACULTY Belize Belgium Azerbaijan Austria Australia Vietnam US UK Turkey Taiwan Syria Switzerland Sweden Spain Slovenia Slovakia Russia NL finance incomeexpences 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 total students 150% groterendaarna90%smaller>>> 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 0 100 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 20 40 60 80 0 5 0 gender gender academic gender suppport studenten 2019 FNWI students BA m/v tbv schetsen scientific staff MA students m/v

Total 1033 male 715 female 318

Total 1033 Professors 88 MA students NL/international Associate professors 79 Assistant professors 102 Postdocs 208 Lecturers and PhD candidates 553 rest ????23????

Total 1033 National staff 535 International staff 498 6000 gender academic total students 150% groter en daarna 90% smaller >>> 2019 FNWI5000 students BA m/v 8000 tbv schetsen 7000 4000 scientific staff 6000 MA students m/v

IoP 5000 3000 Total 1033 male 715 female 318 Total fte 182 4000 Full professors 22 gender suppport Associate professors 16 3000 Assistant professors 12 2000 Postdocs 41 2000 PhD candidates 81 Support and management staff 10 1000 1000 Total 1033 Professors 88 MA students NL/international Associate professors 79 0 Assistant professors 102 students BA m/v Postdocs 208 2019 FNWI Lecturers and PhD candidates 553

rest ????23???? tbv schetsen 0 scientific staff finance income expencesMA students m/v Total 1033 male 715 nationality staff academic teaching and support female 318

Total 1033 National staff 535 gender International staff 498 6000 100 gender academic Total 1033 total students Professors 88 MA students NL/international Associate professors 79 5000 Assistant professors 102 150% groter en daarna 90% smaller >>> Postdocs 208 Lecturers and PhD candidates 553 80 8000 rest ????23???? 7000 4000 60 6000 IoP 5000 3000 Total fte 182 40 4000 Full professors 22 gender suppport Associate professors 16 3000 Total 1033 Assistant professors 12 2000 National staff 535 Postdocs 41 20 International staff 498 2000 PhD candidates 81 Support and management staff 10 6000 gender academic 1000 total students 0 1000 0 150% groter en daarna 90% smaller >>> 5000 8000 0 7000 4000 6000 40 IoP NL INT. 5000 3000 finance income expences Total fte 182 nationality staff4000 academic teaching and support 35 nationality studentsNON Full professors 22 gender suppport EEA Associate professors 16 EEA 3000 Assistant professors 12 2000 ff gender Postdocs 41 ta 30 s 2000 PhD candidates 81 ic Support and management staff 10 m e 1000 100 INTERNATIONAL NATIONALITY OF STAFF d 1000 25 a c a 0 51% 49%

MSc STUDENTS 80

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nationality staff academic teaching and support

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t 40 e a 40 c f 35 h f 905 people nationality students a in t 20 g s t 30 s n ta e 0 ff m 25 , s ge up na port ma 20 and 40 nationality students 35 15 30 10 25 5 20 TOP 5 15 0 INTERNATIONAL 10 MSc STUDENTS 5 0

NON EEA EEA studenten Brazil Indonesia Slovenia China Ireland Sweden Bulgaria Iran Spain Croatia Italy Switzerland studenten studenten 40 Germany 1 China 34 Canada 40 ItalyIraq2 India 16 Sweden Cyprus Latvia Syria 27 Spain 3 US 11 China 24 UKIreland4 Canada 4 Switzerland Czech Lithuania Taiwan 34 Greece 5 Russia 4 Croatia Italy Syria Republic Luxembourg Turkey Cyprus Latvia Taiwan Denmark Malta UK Czech Lithuania Turkey Estonia Mexico US Republic Luxembourg UK Finland Myanmar Vietnam Denmark Malta US France Nigeria Australia Estonia Mexico Vietnam Georgia Paraguay Austria Finland Myanmar Australia Germany Poland Azerbaijan France Nigeria Austria Greece Portugal Belgium Georgia Paraguay Azerbaijan Hungary Romania Belize Germany Poland Belgium Iceland Russia Brazil Greece Portugal Belize India Slovakia Bulgaria Hungary Romania Brazil Indonesia Slovenia Canada Iceland Russia Bulgaria Iran Spain China

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