Awards and Grants

Professor of Migratory Bird Ecology Theunis Piersma has been named a Knight of the National Order of Mauritania.

Syuzanna Harutyunyan and Geert van den Bogaart of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant.

Andra Cristiana Minculescu and Prof. Francesco Picchioni are the winners of this year's FSE Impact Award.

Dr. Antonija Grubišić-Čabo, Dr. Robbert Havekes and Prof. Jan Komdeur receive an NWO M1 grant

Four researchers from the Faculty of Science and Engineering (UG) receive NWO grants of 3 million euros for their research projects.

Together with international partners Professor Adri Minnaard is awarded 9.2 million US dollars from a programme run by the US National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID).

Together with partners, Dr. Anatoli Mokhov has received 3 million euros to reduce gas emissions and avoid harmful flaring.

Professor Bart Besselink is a partner in a consortium receiving 2 million euros from the National Growth Fund program 'NXTGEN Highteck'to develop a new design method for mechatronic systems.

The Ubbo Emmius Fund (UEF) of the University of Groningen has awarded the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center and the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster a total of 26.9 million euros.

Researchers Bart Besselink, Else Starkenburg and Jagoda Slawinska have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Professor Hannah Dugdale has won the NWO Science Athena Award 2024.

On Monday November 25, ten students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering received a KHMW Young Talent Incentive Award.

Michele Cucuzzella and Ming Cao are partners in the research programme ‘Behavioural Insights for Climate Policy’

Funding has been awarded to two more research projects at the University of Groningen under the National Science Agenda's Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC). Meerburg, Dimastrogiovanni, and Roest have received €500,000 for researching emergence in cosmology. Klemens Eriksson is partner in the NO-REGRETS project, which will study the ecological and economic impacts of scaling up offshore wind farms in the North Sea.

Researchers of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have been awarded two large NWO grants for global biodiversity restoration and research into the origin of life.

Professor Bert Poolman, together with Prof. Petra Schwille, receives an ERC Synergy grant of five million euros for synthetic cell research.

Professor Ben Feringa from the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry (University of Groningen) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant of up to €800,000 to Laura Baams, M.J. Bonder, Ranko Gacesa, Kristina Haslinger, Julian Koellermeier, Cyril Moers, Adrià Rofes, and Judith E.C. Verweijen. With this grant, the researchers can develop their own innovative five-year research plans and can establish their own research groups.

Professor Davide Grossi has been awarded a EUR 3.3 million Horizon Europe grant to improve online participation platforms.

The EU has awarded a major grant to a consortium of researchers from the Universities of Groningen and Leiden to research the origin and nature of life.

Prof. Marc van der Maarel and Prof. Geert van den Bogaart will receive a Biotech Booster grant of EUR 200,000 from the National Growth Fund Program.

Two UG researches, both working at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant: Jingxiu Xie and Gosia Wlodarczyk-Biegun. The European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants consist of €1.5 million each, for a period of five years. The grants are meant for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe.

Professors Tamalika Banerjee Bart Kooi will receive a EUR 750,000 grant for research contributing to the development of energy-efficient computer hardware.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant of up to €320,000 each to ten researchers of the University of Groningen and the UMCG. The Veni grants are designed for outstanding researchers who have recently gained a PhD.

For research on making plastics circular, Professors Patrizio Raffa and Katja Loos together receive about 1.2 million euros from the National Growth Fund programme Circular Plastics NL.

Dr. Liangliang Cheng receives a NWO OPT grant of EUR 950,000 for research on safer application of metals in 3D printing technology.

The University of Groningen has elected Stef van Grieken, tech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Cradle, as Alumnus of the Year 2024.

For his research in the field of Natural Sciences, Casper van der Kooi will receive the Heineken Young Scientists Award.

During the 2nd edition of the ENLIGHT Impact Awards, George Azzopardi won one of six Impact Awards for his project ‘Enhancing National and Cross-Border Security: Automatic detection of Face Morphing Attacks’. The ENLIGHT Impact Awards recognize research projects with significant societal impact.

Dr. Michael Lerch and Dr. Frans Bianchi have received a EUR 50,000 Comenius Teaching Fellow grant from the NRO.

Prof. Ben Feringa has been elected member of the American Philosophical Society (APS)

RUG researchers partner in NWO Summit grant to research molecular basis of life.

On Friday, 24 May, the UG awarded four honorary doctorates to Dr Kate Crawford, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Gerrit Hiemstra and Prof. Mariana Mazzucato. The presentation took place in the Aula of the Academy Building and was part of the university's anniversary celebrations.

Raffaella Carloni and Jonas Göbel received the Ben Feringa Impact Awards 2024 for the categories of researchers and students on Tuesday 21 May.

At the UG Ceremony of Merits on May 21, Mink Sieders was awarded the GUF 100 Prize, making him the best student of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 2023-2024.

Prof. Chris Smit (GELIFES) and Prof. Kai Jensen (University of Hamburg) will receive an NWA grant of 2.9 million euros for research that will contribute to sustainable managemnt of the salt marshes of the Wadden Sea.

Dr. Loredana Protesescu has been awarded an Science-M grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research into antiperovskites and how they can be used for technological applications.

Prof. Henderik Willem Frijlink was nominated by the UG to receive a royal decoration on Friday 26 April

Nine researchers of the Faculty of Science and Engineering have received a Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Network grant.

Dr. Charissa Roossien (ENTEG) has successfully secured a Just Transition Fund (JTF) subsidy of 1.8 million euros to develop a Health Tracker for reliable respiratory and metabolic analysis.

With her expertise in single-molecule techniques, Dr. Kasia Tych (GBB) will contribute to a big Grvitation-research programme

Research group IREES receives NWO-KIC grant for research into sharing and repairing

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to the Green Tissue Engineering research programme, of which professor Marleen Kamperman, from the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to ANION, the research programme that Professor Moniek Tromp of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG) is a partner in. ANION, Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands, will study the electrochemical processes that are important for large-scale energy transition. Tromp has been awarded 2.9 million euros for her research in ANION.

Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) will participate as Twinning-partners in research projects in the Czech Republic, Spain, and Estonia.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded M-1 grants in the Exact and Natural Sciences domain to Prof. Wouter Roos and Prof. Bert Poolman of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG).