Individual honours
Elsevier has designated W. Daniel Kissling of UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) as the Netherlands' most prolific biodiversity researcher. Moreover, compared to the rest of the world, Dutch biodiversity research is of high quality, highly international, and has significant influence on policy worldwide.
Ronald de Wolf (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, CWI and QuSoft) and his co-authors receive the prestigious Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science. The Gödel Prize is jointly awarded by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
Daniel Baumann, professor at UvA's Institute of Physics, is one of the recipients of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. The award has been granted in recognition of Baumann’s past accomplishments in research and teaching.
Astronomer Ed van den Heuvel received the Langerhuizen Oeuvre Prize from the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. The emeritus professor at Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy is well-known for his research on the formation and evolution of binary stars that contain neutron stars and black holes: X-ray binaries, binary radio pulsars and gravitational-wave sources. He also contributed to our understanding of gamma ray bursts.
Professor Benny Akesson of the Informatics Institute received the Test Of Time Award for CODES+ISSS at Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) 2023 in Hamburg, Germany. The Test of Time Award is the most prestigious award of ESWEEK and honors the authors of papers of previous editions of the co-located conferences (CASES 2008, CODES+ISSS 2007, and EMSOFT 2007) that had the highest impact.
Corentin Coulais (Institute of Physics) has won the annual Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research awarded by the American Physical Society. The award was given for his pioneering research into soft matter-based metamaterials with on-demand mechanical properties.
Coulais combines additive manufacturing, precision-desktop experiments, numerical methods and theory inspired from condensed matter to create soft materials that blur the boundary between material and machine.
The Award by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is intended for researchers in the Netherlands who are at the beginning of their careers and have innovative, original ideas.
Oklopčić of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy has designed a new method for observing planets that are in the process of losing their atmosphere, as is the case with Mars, for example. What is innovative about her approach is that this method was not only developed theoretically but also tested experimentally. In addition, Oklopčić has developed a new theoretical model for escaping atmospheres of exoplanets, which provides insight into the changes of planets after their birth. In doing so, she brings to light new fields of research and opens the way for other techniques to study atmospheric loss in exoplanets.
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly organises the SIGMOD (Special Interest Group in the Management of Data) conference, a leading international forum for data management researchers, practitioners, developers and users.
Sebastian Schelter (Informatics Institute) won the Best Demo Runner Up Award and the Systems Award.