Research

Research output

Research output 2021 per type of publication (source: PURE).

Other output and honours

Efficiency of the doctoral research path

All PhD candidates conducting research with the primary aim/obligation of graduating, based on a 0.8-1.0 FTE contract. This includes PhD candidates with employee status and contract PhD candidates without employee status. The second category receives external funding or a university scholarship to conducting research under the authority of the research unit with the primary aim of graduating.

The graph below shows the duration of promotion tracks at HIMS (from start to hora est) in months for the past years. Each dot represents a single PhD.  Externally prepared promotions are not taken into account in these figures.  In 2021, 8 PhD candidates received a corona delay related extension with an average of 1.8 months pp.

Personnel

FTE numbers

The table below presents the HIMS staff numbers (average headcount in 2021) and in Research FTE. Research FTE means net time available for research as full-time equivalents (FTE) per employment type. Detailed information on these numbers is available as supporting information. The following tables total the complete HIMS staff as full-time equivalents (fte) per employment type per research theme.

Diversity

Age, gender, and nationality distribution of scientific staff of HIMS ultimo 2021.

Finance

Research project funding

The HIMS institute is financed via different funding streams:

• Direct funding (eerste geldstroom) is the funding HIMS receives from the university to cover to main costs for permanent staff, support, building and overheads. The university may grant Strategic project funding or Research priority areas, that also count as direct funding category.
• Most research grants (tweede geldstroom) are funded by national or European funding or research agencies like NWO and KNAW.
• A third funding component is contract research (derde geldstroom), directly paid by companies, governments, European Research Council or other third parties.

Last but not least HIMS welcomes a group of guest researchers. These are usually PhD students with a scholarship (bursalen) or senior researchers employed elsewhere having a sabbatical. The tables below give an insight into the distribution of funds and the funding of staff salaries only.

Research- and supporting staff 2020 of HIMS per funding type (fte)

Externally financed projects acquired in 2021 (mln €) per funding type.

HIMS result 2021 (k€)

The HIMS result for 2021 amounts to +1.09 Mio€. These concern reservations from past budgets for costs in the framework of the Sectorplan Natuur- en Scheikunde and the RPA Sustainable Chemistry foreseen. The institutes is required to have a reserve of minimal 10% of its annual revenue to which the surplus is counted in part as well.