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In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2026 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. The winners will be announced on 9 June. This week: Maruna Manthe with the research on gender equity in the circular construction sector in Friesland.

In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2026 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. The winners will be announced on 9 June. This week: Giovanni Maglia with the research on nanopore technology for protein sequencing and personalized healthcare.

What can artificial intelligence learn from a court case? A great deal, says Professor of AI Bart Verheij. According to Verheij, intelligence is all about the exchange of arguments, just like in the courtroom. ‘My dream is that experts from as many other fields as possible will help to develop AI.’

Refining lithium not only results in the loss of large amounts of material, but also uses vast quantities of fresh water. Groningen deep-tech start-up IonIQs has developed a solution that could fundamentally change lithium extraction.

The University of Groningen is strengthening its position as a regional innovation engine. In Sprout’s Innovatie300, the UG has been named the organization with the best strategy in the category ‘Non-profit, government and implementing organizations, education and healthcare’.

UG researcher Soran Mansournia (Faculty of Spatial Sciences) will be able to conduct research at Yale University for two years thanks to the Rubicon programme organized by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The NWO Rubicon programme enables talented, young researchers to acquire international research experience to help kick-start their academic careers.

How to manage your finances: it is not a subject you are taught at school; you are just supposed to know how to do it. For people with a mental health condition, this can prove a real challenge. Psychologist Janneke Koerts investigates where things go wrong and what can be done about it.

Mathematician Cristóbal Bertoglio creates personalized computer models of the human heart. With his team, he is working on mathematical methods that can infer the information he needs from MRI scans. Bertolio: ‘Such a personalized heart model can help with the early detection of cardiac damage, for instance, or show the consequences of congenital heart disease.’

Professors Jacquelien Scherpen (who is also University of Groningen Rector Magnificus) and Lude Franke (UMCG) have been appointed members by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The KNAW elected 16 new members. The approximately 600 members of the KNAW are leading scientists from all disciplines. Membership is for life.

Important 6th-century Bible manuscript, long thought lost, has been rediscovered