Finalists 2025

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 maps’ - by Makke Marij Bakker, Annika Zweep, Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland & 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 RUG scientists, RUG 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).