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Edwin Otten is working on a battery that stores electric power in large containers of fluid.  To make such a battery effective and affordable, a lot more research is still needed.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant of up to €850,000 to Tom Boot, Thijs Bouman, Jasperina Brouwer, Julia Costa López, Bahar Haghighat, Namkje Koudenburg, Sebastian Lequime, Loredana Protesescu en Marthe Walvoort. With this grant, the researchers can develop their own innovative research plans and establish their own research groups.

Over the next five years, a new astronomical instrument will unravel our galactic history, investigate dark matter and study the origins of stars. Astronomers from the University of Groningen will also be working with this instrument.

Quota-based open access publishing agreements: caps expected in 2025 for LWW, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and ACS

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On Friday 17 October, the University of Groningen presented NEDHISFIRM, a unique scientific database on the Amsterdam stock exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world. The database contains financial data on domestic and foreign companies that have been listed in Amsterdam since 1796.

The UG/UMCG Biotech Booster project, Haplotagging, has been granted €200,000 in funding from the National Growth Fund. The funding will be used for the further development of Haplotagging’s innovative genotyping platform.

During the farewell symposium on the occasion of her retirement, held on Friday 17 October 2025, Marjo Buitelaar (Vlaardingen, 1958), Professor of Contemporary Islam at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society, received a Royal Decoration. She received the insignia belonging to the Royal Decoration in the category of Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau from Mayor Hans Broekhuizen of the Municipality of Het Hogeland.

In just a few weeks, a team of 13 students from the University of Groningen will travel to Paris. From 28-31 October, at the Grand Jamboree of the iGEM competition, they will present ‘CRIKIT’, a portable kit that makes detecting antibiotic resistance in bacteria faster, cheaper and more accessible to everyone.