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On July 17th 2024, the Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET) project launches an innovative, experimental website to share research findings on just energy transitions more effectively and engagingly.

Taking antibiotics at a young age can make the body more prone to asthma and allergies later in life. This might be preventable by adding a simple supplement, concludes immunologist Olaf Perdijk from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. His comprehensive study is published today in the journal Immunity.

Prof. dr. Roel Vermeulen has been appointed Distinguished ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Professor at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� as of 15 July. His focus in this role will be on the theme of planetary and preventive health.

An Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� research team has taken the first steps in creating an evidence base about data purchasing by governments in the Netherlands.

The findings might have implications for the development of new innovative materials that use bacteria to replace non-sustainable dyes.

Ana Krotenberg Garcia: "Instead of making cancer weaker, you could also focus on strengthening healthy cells and transforming them into winners."

Roel Brouwer’s PhD thesis at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� is about developing algorithms for demand and supply in electricity networks

Plant biologist Corné Pieterse has been elected to join EMBO, a European research network for leading scientists in life sciences. This membership is a significant honor and opens up new opportunities for collaboration and sharing ideas.

Brouwer promoveerde 8 juli op zijn onderzoek naar stuurbare vraag in elektriciteitsnetwerken.

The Copernicus Institute is offering visiting scholar positions fully funded by ERC project "Problem-Shifting between International Environmental Treaty Regimes: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions".

From 15 July 2024, Michelle van Vliet will be appointed professor of Water Quality and Sustainable Water Systems at the faculty of Geosciences.

Six million euros were divided over ten projects in total, and all studies will last five years.

Project raised awareness among citizens, schoolchildren and students of soil decomposition processes that play a significant role in climate and biodiversity .

Snellings is Professor of Heavy Ion Physics and leads the Dutch contributions to the international ALICE experiment with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Fractals made out of bismuth can conduct electricity, without losing energy.

Patient’s own bone has long been used for transplantation, but this method is not optimal. Instead, special grains of artificial bone may be a better option.

Cycling as fast as you can on a fitness machine: children with heart conditions often undergo exercise stress tests that guide medical decisions. Researchers have received a grant to design an applied game to motivate children more for this.

Douwe van Hinsbergen and Marjolein Naudé of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� take the cycling audience on their journey through the landscape and the geological history of the Tour de France

Lorena De Vita is the recipient of the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.

Find out about our workshops over the summer.

As of September 1, Toine Pieters will start as NIAS Golestan fellow at the KNAW.

Researchers from Nanjing universities and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� made the first sink or source map that can be used when deciding where to invest in blue carbon.

The EU-funded IHEN project has been launched. IHEN will develop a roadmap for future exposome research, provide tools and training opportunities and increase the impact of future studies in this field.

Climate researcher Detlef van Vuuren has been awarded the Spinoza Prize for his scientific work, the highest honour in Dutch science.

Academics, frustrated by limited impact on the ecological crisis, are turning to scholar-activism. Embracing this could foster new knowledge, networks, and social change. Blog by Lisette van Beek