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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced the authors selected for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).

How can neighbours come together to produce, share, and manage their own energy using solar panels, batteries, and smart software? That’s the challenge being tackled by RENvolveIT, an ambitious European research project that is developing modular digital tools for energy communities.

The so-called weathering continuum provides a much more complete picture on what controls and regulates the natural removal of CO2.

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions.

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).