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22 researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Medical Center Utrecht, and Princess Máxima Center have each been awarded a Vidi grant worth up to €850,000.

From 1 November 2025, Jarno Hoekman will be appointed Professor of Science Studies for Sustainability.

As of 1 November 2025, Simona Negro will be appointed professor of Circular Societies, with a focus on the transition from a linear to a circular society.

The central challenge addressed by this chair is how we can achieve sustainable land use and management in the face of intensifying and often competing demands.

In Global Environmental Change, an international team of researchers led by Frances Dunn from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� introduces a new conceptual model for climate adaptation.

Literary scholar and cultural historian Dirk van Miert has been appointed Professor by Special Appointment in the History of Knowledge from a Digital Perspective at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Lonneke Roelofs studied a phenomenon that we do not know here on Earth and that had never been observed by anyone before.

By comparing the positions of the fifteen largest political parties, ocean scientists aim to show voters what each party plans for our seas and the ocean.

As of 1 April 2026, Professor Thomas Vaessens has been reappointed by the Executive Board as dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� research contributes to an online tool that helps consumers navigate the wide range of labels on food products.

We are proud to announce that UU Associate Professor Niko Wanders has been selected to receive the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal.

Honour in recognition for exceptional contributions

More time spent and more rejections: humanities scholars who do not have English as mother tongue encounter considerable obstacles, a study of philosophers suggests.

The focus area Applied Data Science again provides funding to finance research projects within the SIGs of Applied Data Science.

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: timeless opening lectures.

A broad consortium will collaborate over the coming years on the research project Empowering Citizen COllectives in societal transitions (ECCO).

The African Urban Futures project aims to open up possibilities for more just and sustainable cities as an alternative to development visions for African cities that typically are oriented toward replicating the gleaming skylines of Dubai or Singapore.

To recognize and promote excellence in student research as well as awareness in our field, the focus area Migration and Societal Change awards the best master’s thesis.

Thanks to new digital technologies, substations are becoming smarter, more efficient, and more connected than ever before.

The new AMBITIONS research project focuses on the following question: how can we better align and accelerate the transitions to green energy, a circular economy and more preventive public health in the built environment?

On 4 September 2025 Michelle van Vliet will give her inaugural lecture. Why is water quality often neglected and how do climate extremes exacerbate the problem?

Many of the so-called “green jobs" in the Dutch textile sector are far from fair.

How flawed calculations let high-polluting countries off the hook, and how courts can hold them accountable

Pepijn de Koning wins the Vliegenthart Thesis Award 2025.

Smart charging of electric vehicles presents a potential way to deal with the problem of grid congestion