In a scientific paper published earlier this month, chemist Chris Slootweg of the University of Amsterdam and his team describe the results of their Lowlands Science project ‘We Need Your P(ee)’. The chemists ...

In an international cooperation, researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich have developed a molecular system for controlled release of iron. They integrated ferrocene, a molecular sandwich that encloses ...

Researchers at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences led by Dr Amanda Garcia have discovered a new reaction pathway in the electrochemical synthesis of formamides. In a paper that has just been accepted by ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have pioneered a computational approach to designing peptides that target Bax, a key regulating protein of programmed neuronal cell death. Their study, recently published in ...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have developed a powerful computational approach for modelling of liquids and vapours. A paper in Physical Review Letters describes how they ...

An international team of researchers led by Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the University of Amsterdam and TNO Energy and Materials Transition have quantified the role of the ‘hydrogen economy’ in making our society more ...

In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences report an efficient and practical electrochemical cyclopropanation method in ...

Researchers at the Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-inspired Catalysis group led by Prof. Joost Reek have devised a novel concept for catalysis which enables transient control during the course of a reaction. ...

In a paper in Nature Communications, researchers at the Flow Chemistry group led by Prof. Timothy Noël present a novel and efficient deoxygenative photochemical alkylation method for transforming secondary amides ...

In a joint project, researchers at the University of Amsterdam and KWR Water Research Institute have developed and tested a novel analytical procedure for the environmental analysis of persistent and mobile organic ...

Crime scene investigation may soon become significantly more accurate and efficient thanks to a new method for detecting gunshot residues. Researchers from the groups of Wim Noorduin (AMOLF / University of Amsterdam) ...

The Biocatalysis group led by associate professor Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded a €220,000 post-doctoral fellowship grant as part of the EU Marie ...

Dr Guillaume Hopsort has joined the Flow Chemistry group led by Prof. Timothy Noël at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will work on the ...

At the most recent edition of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, two UvA teams won the famous prize: Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen won the Chemistry Ig Nobel for their research on drunk ...

Dr Florenz Buß has recently been selected as a fellow of the Dutch national 'Faculty of Impact' programme. Buß, a postdoc working with Prof. Chris Slootweg at the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Group (Van 't Hoff ...

Paul Ferguson has been named professor by special appointment at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam as of 15 March. His chair, ‘Separation of Biomacromolecules, with an emphasis on Sustainable ...

With their pitch 'Plastic of the future is made of sugar', Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry together with Prof. Marja Lamoree of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam hope to win the Klokhuis Science ...

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has appointed 11 new fellows to their Faculty of Impact program. Among them are two researchers of the UvA's Faculty of Science: Roland Berdaguer (SILS) and Florenz Buß (HIMS). ...

Prof. Timothy Noel of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded a Vici grant by the Dutch research council NWO. Worth 1.5 million euros, the Vici is one of the ...

Stefano Bonciolini of the Flow Chemistry group won a poster prize at the 5th Swiss Industrial Chemistry Symposium held 31 January in Basel, organized by the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS).