Ten Groningen science students win national Young Talent prize
On November 26th, ten students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (University of Groningen) were presented with the Young Talent Prize 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 technology and are made available by businesses, foundations, and funds in the respective fields.
Three Master’s students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering won the Young Talent Graduation Award :
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Anouk Goossens MSc Nanoscience |
Shell Graduation Award for Physics, for her Master’s thesis: Investigating Nb-doped SrTiO3 Schottky Junctions as a Platform for Bio-inspired Computing | 5,000 euros Read more on Goossens' researching building blocks of the electronic brain |
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Luna van der Loos MSc Marine biology |
Enza Zaden Graduation Award for Biology, for her Master’s theses: Predicting the responses of seaweeds to ocean acidification: unexpected growth and photosynthetic responses of species with different carbon uptake strategies | 3,000 euros. Enza Zaden is a plant breeding company. The journal Ecology and Evolution published an article on Van der Loos' study* |
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Victhalia Zapata Castillo MSc Energy and Environmental Sciences |
Dutch Gas Industry Award, on her Master’s theses: Hydrogen from desert areas. Hydrogen production in desert areas for export in comparison to a Dutch domestic hydrogen system | 2,000 euros. The award was made possible by the KVGN. |
Seven first-year Bachelor’s students won a Young Talent Incentive Award of 500 euros. 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:
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Bachelor’s student |
Award |
Made possible by |
|---|---|---|
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Wietze Koops BSc Mathematics |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Mathematics and Applied mathematics |
ORTEC |
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Alan Wichink Kruit BSc Applied Physics |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Physics and Applied physics |
Physica Foundation |
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Pieter Brongers BSc Chemical Engineering |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Chemistry |
Shell Global Solutions Int. |
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Malina Chichirău BSc Artificial Intelligence |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Computing Science and Engineering |
KNVI |
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Jiyea Kim BSc Chemical Engineering |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Chemical Engineering |
Koninklijke Van Wijhe Verf (Royal Van Wijhe Paint) |
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Janneke Heidema BSc Pharmacy |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Pharmacy or (bio) pharmaceutical sicences |
KNMP (national pharmacist’s organisation) |
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Linde Wieringa BSc Biology |
Young Talent Incentive Award for Biology |
Enza Zaden (plant breeding company) |
Several winning Bachelor’s students are doing two Bachelor's programmes or an Honours programme.
* van der Loos, L.M., Schmid, M., Leal, P.P., McGraw, C.M., Britton, D., Revill, A.T., Virtue, P., Nichols, P.D. & Hurd, C.L. (2018) Responses of macroalgae to CO2 enrichment cannot be inferred solely from their inorganic carbon uptake strategy. Ecology and Evolution (in press). doi: 10.1002/ece3.4679. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4679
| Last modified: | 16 January 2019 12.21 p.m. |
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