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The award ceremony of the fifth edition of the Ben Feringa Impact Award took place on Tuesday 13 May 2025 in House of Connections.

The ceremony provides a platform to honor outstanding achievements and encourages a dialogue on how to further enhance the impact of academic insights in both professional and societal spheres.

The finalists

Student category:

• ‘Phone Masking Augmentation for Automatic Recognition of Whispered Speech’ - by Igor Marchenko (Campus Fryslân)

• ‘Improving Human-AI Decision-Making in healthcare: A Computational Theory of Mind approach’ - by Andra Cristiana Minculescu (Faculty of Science & Engineering)

• ‘Collective Memory Dialogue cards’ - by Makke Marij Bakker, Annika Zweep, Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland and Lisette Kamping (Faculty of Philosophy)

Category researchers:

• ‘Rubber Recycling’ - by Francesco Picchioni (Faculty of Science & Engineering)

• ‘Participatory approaches to improve health in low socioeconomic status communities’ - by Tim van Zutphen (Campus Fryslân)

• ‘Demonstratierecht.nl’ - by Berend Roorda and Noor Swart (Faculty of Law)

The entries were assessed by a selection committee consisting of UG researchers, UG students, and staff from external cooperation partners. This year, the jury consists of: Erik Frijlink (UMCG/FMW/FSE), Joost van Egmond (Science Journalist, Trouw), Marijke Leliveld (FEB), Mateo Bril (Studentassessor CvB), Mladen Popovic (FRC&M) and Nienke Homan (President KNVCI).

This year's presentation of the Ben Feringa Impact Award took place at House of Connections. Ceciel Nieuwenhout (Faculty of Law) was the chairman of the day and Dr Defne Abur (Faculty of Arts) provided a keynote.

Are you curious about the winners of the previous editions? Then take a quick look at the next page.