Awards and Grants
Read here the latest news on awards and grants for researchers at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Four UG projects receive NWO funding for innovative research in bioplastics, sustainable materials, and AI-driven antiviral strategies.
Dr. Ayushi Rastogi has been awarded the 2026 Pieter Langerhuizen Bate Prize for her research into the impact of AI on the work of software professionals with disabilities.
Prof. Marco Fraaije has been awarded a grant of EUR 930,000 from the NWO Open Technology Programme for research into the valorization of oxidative enzymes.
Professor Ben Feringa has been awarded EUR 300,000 in funding from the SNN’s Just Transition Fund (JTF) to develop alternatives for high-performance coatings.
Prof. André Faaij is a member of the new Energy Council as of March 1.
Professors Inga Kamp and Martien Kas of the University of Groningen' s faculty of Science and Engineering have been appointed as a new scientific members of the KHMW.
The UG will receive EUR 670.000 for developing a digital platform
Loi will receive the grant for developing safe, highly sensitive and fast infrared detectors for use in advanced sensor technology.
Minnaard's team will convert renewable raw materials such as sugars and fatty acids into industrial semi-finished products using hydrogen.
Een team geleid door prof. dr. Edwin Otten van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ontvangt een NWO subsidie van 5 miljoen euro vanuit het Nationaal Groeifondsprogramma ‘Material Independence and Circular Batteries’.
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research, TNO, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Hanze University of Applied Sciences and industry partners, has secured a €2 million grant from the NWO NXTGEN Hightech programme.
Thijs van der Laan and Prof. Giovanni Maglia won this year's FSE Impact Award.
Prof. Mariano Méndez has received the prestigious Argentine 'Premio RAÍCES 2025' (ROOTS award).
Prof. Ben Feringa has won the Feynman Experiment Prize for pioneering the control of molecular motion.
Alexander Belyy receives the FEBS Excellence Award 2025 for researching pathogenic microorganisms that ‘hijack’ their host cells’ cytoskeleton in order to escape the immune system.
Prof. Moniek Tromp has been selected as one of twenty new members of The Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE is a select group of engineers, technologists and innovators from science and industry who have delivered outstanding achievements, play a pioneering role in social transitions and are committed to strengthening the role of engineering in our society.
Dr. Sina Katharina Götzfried has been awarded a Faculty of Impact grant from the to develop a new treatment for brain cancer.
Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences student Menna Zaharan of the University of Groningen has been awarded the 2025 Unilever Research Prize for her Master’s thesis.
Three ENW-M grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Fourteen students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) win national Young Talent Awards
FSE at the University of Groningen has signed a new agreement with Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia to establish a double degree programme within the Masters degree programme Mechanical Engineering
A team led by Prof. Moniek Tromp has been awarded a 15.8 million euros grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to establish a new national X-ray research center.
With a grant from the Wadden Fund and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, RUG Professor Britas Klemens Eriksson will conduct research into the impact of noise on underwater life in the Wadden Sea.
Two UG research projects have received funding from the National Growth Fund project Big Chemistry via NWO.
Prof. Ajay Kottapalli of the University of Groningen has been nominated for the prestigious Huibregtsen Prize.
Five UG researchers, working at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant: Miles Wischnewski, Loredana Protesescu, Alexander Belyy, Tim Lichtenberg, and Michael Lerch. The European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants amount to €1.5 million each, for a period of five years. The grants are intended for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe.
Honorary professor Bruno Ehrler of the University of Groningen has been appointed as the new director of AMOLF, the NWO Institute for research into functional complex matter.
Professors Ajay Kottapalli and Erika Covi have received Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC).
Prof Dr Anna Salvati, Dr Christoffer Åberg and Prof Dr Siewert-Jan Marrink have been granted a National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to further develop life-saving drugs based on nanotechnology with the NanoMedNL consortium.
Prof Anastasiia Krushynska has been granted a EUR 600,000 National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to help develop innovative technologies for converting low-grade organic waste into durable, recyclable materials.
At the UG Ceremony of Merits on July 4, Ana Lazar was awarded the GUF 100 Prize, making her the best student of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 2024-2025.
During the RUG Ventures Innovation Day, Prof. Erik Heeres of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) was awarded the Impact Innovator Excellence Award.
Prof. David Lentink is a partner in the NaviSense project awarded 54.7 million euros by the German government to research the mechanisms animals use to navigate and how these mechanisms can inspire technology.
With the ‘Lipidomics Team’, Prof. Adri Minnaard has been named winner of the Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Researchers at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) have received Comenius Teaching Fellow grants from the National Educational Research Organization (NRO).
The European Research Council has awarded ERC Advanced grants to Prof. Inga Kamp, Prof. Wouter Roos and Prof. Syuzanna Harutyunyan.
The University of the North team 'Lord of the Roads', in which students from educational institutions Noorderpoort, Hanzehogeschool and the University of Groningen collaborated, came second in the RDW Self Driving Challenge (SDC). The team competed in the open category.
Dr. Vassilis Kyriakou has received a EUR 400,000 grant of the NWO to develop an innovative electrochemical reactor for sustainable ammonia production.
For her pioneering research in the field of galactic archaeology, Else Starkenburg has been awarded the Pastoor Schmeitis Prize.
The new facility will be housed and developed at the UG's Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (ZIAM).
On 25 April 2025, Arnold Driessen (Horst, the Netherlands, 1958) received a Royal Decoration. Driessen is Professor of Molecular Microbiology and chair of the Molecular Microbiology research department of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Groningen.