Skip to ContentSkip to Navigation
About us Latest news News News articles

Three Vidi grants awarded

06 November 2009
Three top researchers at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (formerly known as the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) have been awarded a Vidi grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This grant of maximum 800,000 euros enables the researchers to develop their own research topic and  start a research group of their own. In total the NWO awarded over 70 million euros to 89 innovative researchers.

The three researchers are:

  • Dr. K. (Katja) Loos
    Dr. D-J. (Dirk-Jan) Scheffers
  • Dr. S.J.L. (Sonja) Smets
Last modified:09 February 2017 1.27 p.m.
View this page in: Nederlands

More news

  • 23 July 2024

    The chips of the future

    Our computers use an unnecessarily large amount of energy, and we are reaching the limits of our current technology. That is why CogniGron is working on new materials that mimic the way the brain computes, and Professor Tamalika Banerjee will...

  • 18 July 2024

    Smart robots to make smaller chips

    A robotic arm in a factory that repeatedly executes the same movement: that’s a thing of the past, states Ming Cao. Researchers of the University of Groningen are collaborating with high-tech companies to make production processes more autonomous.

  • 17 July 2024

    Veni-grants for ten researchers

    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.