Twelve Groningen science and engineering students win national Young Talent Award
On Monday November 29, twelve 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) d uring an online ceremony. 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.
Eight 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 |
|
Daan Bijker |
Incentive award Pharmacy or (bio)pharmaceutical sciences |
KNMP |
|
Fabienne Burkard |
Incentive award Chemical Engineering |
VNCI |
|
Daniel Cortild |
Incentive award Mathematics and technical mathematics |
ORTEC |
|
Channa Dias Perera |
Incentive award Informatics and technical informatics |
KNVI/KIVI |
|
Natalia Koscelanská |
Incentive award Physics and technical physics |
Stichting Physica |
|
Alexander Lenze |
Incentive award Chemistry |
Shell |
|
Cole Onorati |
Incentive award Technology for Healthcare Solutions |
Philips |
|
Mihai Simioniuc |
Incentive award Biology |
Enza Zaden |
Four Master’s students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering won a Young Talent Graduation Award:
|
Maaike Los |
2nd prize KNVI/KIVI Thesis Prizes for Informatics and Information Science, for her master thesis ‘Choosing Fair Committees and Budgets: Proportionality in Multi-Winner Elections and Participatory Budgeting’ | EUR 1,000 |
|
Ewoud Wempe |
De Zeeuw-Van Dishoeck Graduation Award for Astronomy, for his master thesis ‘High-precision localisation of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves’ | EUR 3,000 |
|
Tim de Wild |
1st prize Shell Graduation Awards for Physics, for his master thesis ‘Secondary Non-Gaussianities in the 21-Centimeter Signal during the Dark Ages’ | EUR 3,000 |
|
Marnix Wiechers |
3rd prize Shell Graduation Awards for Physics, for his master thesis ‘Investigating the Efficiency Losses in Cs2AgBiBr6 Perovskite Solar Cells. Simulated and Experimental Device Architecture Optimisation.’ | EUR 1,000 |
Every year, the KHMW takes care of the independent judging and award ceremony.
| Last modified: | 01 December 2021 12.38 p.m. |
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