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Vanaf 1 oktober 2025 maakt de Bibliotheek Wiskunde met haar collectie geen onderdeel meer uit van de universiteitsbibliotheek. Het Mathematisch Instituut neemt het beheer van de locatie over.

“This shows that our attention system has deep evolutionary roots,” says Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� behavioral biologist Tom Roth.

Pepijn de Koning wins the Vliegenthart Thesis Award 2025.

On August 27 2025, Quirijn Meijer has successfully defended his thesis.

Research team urges better education on the environmental impact of medicines, helping patients make informed choices and reduce waste and costs.

How exactly do children acquire language? And do they do so in the same way worldwide? Aoju Chen, professor of English linguistics: language development, conducts research into language acquisition worldwide.

“Gravitational waves could one day help us tell the difference between ‘normal’ nuclear matter and something we’ve never directly observed before.”

Physicist Tom Dooney developed DeepExtractor, a fast AI tool for cleaning gravitational wave data that helps scientists ‘hear’ the universe better.

XS grants provide up to € 50,000 to support promising ideas and to facilitate innovative, exploratory initiatives.

Her aim is to uncover how the loss of Arctic sea ice impacts melting of surrounding glaciers. Specifically, she will look at the effects of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Last Ice Area, which harbours the Arctic's oldest ice.

Joana Dopp recently received an EMBO Fellowship to find out more on exactly how the the zombie ant parasite adjusts its host’s clock.

The study is the first publication based on data collected in the long-term Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Biodiversity and Climate Variability Experiment (UU BioCliVE).

M-grants offer researchers the possibility to elaborate creative and risky ideas and to realise scientific innovations.

The project will make a substantive contribution to the current scholarly debate on colonial legacies and their present-day impact.

“Societal change always has an ethical dimension,” argues philosopher Jeroen Hopster

This large research programme, which brings together Dutch universities, research institutes and industrial companies, aims to make fuels and materials from industrial waste gases and CO2 using sustainable energy and hydrogen.

The last individual of a Portuguese coastal plant species, extinct in the wild, was thought to be growing at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Botanic Gardens.

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

Stories from the Lab: an interview with Nico van den Berg from the AI Lab for Imaging and Image-guided Interventions.

Shihan Wang aims to develop an AI system to help people with early-stage dementia remember when it's time to eat or take their medication.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researchers Bas van Ravensteijn and Markus Weingarth have each been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant of €150.000 to further enhance antibiotics and nanomedice

LPL is hiring a student assistant for 12 hours a week starting from September. Hardware knowledge isn't necessary but a willingness to learn is!

7 grants were awarded in the May 2025 round of the ADS research grant calls.

For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water samples at 12 locations where she filtered out anything larger than one micrometer.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: holidays at university.