Nine Groningen science and engineering students win national Young Talent Award
On Monday November 25th, nine UG students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering were presented with a Young Talent Award by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities ( KHMW ) in the city of 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.
![KHMW](/fse/news/logo-khmw-met-tekst.png)
Seven 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. The awarded students are:
Bachelor's student | Award | Made possible by |
---|---|---|
Sietse Dijt | Young Talent Incentive Award for Chemistry | Shell Global Solutions International |
Lieke Germain | Young Talent Incentive Award for Chemical Engineering | Koninklijke Van Wijhe Verf |
Iris Kamsteeg | Young Talent Incentive Award for Computing Science and Engineering | KNVI |
Serj Koshian | Young Talent Incentive Award for Pharmacy or (bio) pharmaceutical sciences | KNMP |
Stascha Kuipers | Young Talent Incentive Award for Biology | Enza Zaden |
Grigore-Leon Ratiu | Young Talent Incentive Award for Physics and Applied Physics | Stichting Physica |
Tejas Ramesh | Young Talent Incentive Award for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics | ORTEC |
Two Master students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering won a Young Talent Graduation Award :
Hans Beukers Msc Physics |
Shell Graduation Award for Physics, for his Master's thesis: ‘Improving coherence of quantum memory during entanglement creation between nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond - The cure for quantum Alzheimer?’| EUR 5.000 |
Remi Brandt Msc Computing Science |
KNVI Thesis Prize for Computing Science and Engineering, for his Master's thesis: ‘Efficient Binocular Stereo Correspondence Matching with 1-D Max-Trees’| EUR 5.000 |
Every year, the KHMW takes care of the independent judging and award ceremony at the Hodshon House in Haarlem.
![RUG-Winaars Jong Talent Aanmoedigingsprijs | Hilde de Wolf fotografieUG winners Young Talent Incentive Award | Hilde de Wolf photography](/fse/news/fse-winaars-jong-talent-aanmoedigingsprijzen.jpg)
![RUG-winnaars Jong Talent Afstudeerprijs | Hilde de Wolf fotografieUG winners Young Talent Graduation Award | Hilde de Wolf photography](/fse/news/fse-winnaars-jong-talent-afstudeerprijzen-remi-brandt-en-hans-beukers.jpg)
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