Eleven Groningen science and engineering students win national Young Talent Award
On Monday November 28, eleven students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (UG) were presented with a Young Talent Award by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities ( KHMW ) in the Hodshon house in Haarlem. The prizes are for the advancement of higher scientific education in the fields of science and engineering and are made available by businesses, foundations, and funds in the respective fields.
Nine first-year Bachelor’s students won a Young Talent Incentive Award of EUR 500. They are the best first-year student of the Netherlands in their field, with the highest average score of their year:
|
Bachelor’s student |
Award |
Made possible by |
|
Jovan Andreevski |
Incentive Award Mathematics and Technical Mathematics |
ORTEC |
|
Kristian de Groot |
Incentive Award Biomedical Technology |
KHMW |
|
Julia Kalinowska |
Incentive Award Biology |
KHMW |
|
Veronika Lamparská |
Incentive Award Physics and Technical Physics |
Stichting Physica |
|
Pradnesh Mahadeshwar |
Incentive Award Chemical Engineering |
KHMW |
|
Martin Opat |
Incentive Award Informatics and Technical Informatics |
KNVI/KIVI |
|
Kamil Petryczkiewicz |
Incentive Award Chemistry |
Shell |
|
Ana Radu |
Incentive Award Pharmacy or (Bio)pharmaceutical Sciences |
KNMP |
|
Michal Tesnar |
Incentive Award Artificial Intelligence |
Visma Connect |
Two Master’s students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering won a Young Talent Graduation Award:
|
Joshua Krause |
3rd prize KNVI / KIVI Thesis Prizes for Informatics and Information Science, for his master thesis ‘Disentangling the Effects of Stimulus Frequency and Word Type on the Cognitive Processes Involved in Lexical Decision Making’ | EUR 1,000 |
|
Hanneke Woudenberg |
KHMW Graduation Award for Astronomy, for her master thesis ‘Constraining the Milky Way's gravitational potential with the Helmi Streams' clumps: a complex story involving resonances and chaos’ | EUR 3,000 |
Every year, the KHMW takes care of the independent judging and award ceremony.
| Last modified: | 04 August 2023 2.16 p.m. |
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