Interview with IP Fellow Henk Volberda
How can we translate the UvA’s strategic themes into innovative and inspiring teaching methods? Professor Henk Volberda, IP Fellow at Responsible Digital Transformations, talks about his plans.
Responsible Digital Transformations
The interdisciplinary, UvA-wide community for research on the ethical, legal and societal aspects of digital technologies
Digital technologies have unlocked endless new possibilities, but they also have severe social consequences. Responsible Digital Transformations focuses on the ethical, legal and societal aspects of digital algorithms, systems, and platforms. Through innovative research across faculties and academic disciplines, the UvA contributes to a digital society that safeguards public values, such as fairness and transparency.
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How can algorithms allocate school places fairly?
When pupils apply for secondary school in Amsterdam, they are asked to rank their preferred schools. But what if listing their genuine preferences is not the best way to receive a place? This question is at the heart ... -
Hoe kunnen algoritmen plaatsen op middelbare scholen eerlijk toewijzen?
Als leerlingen zich in Amsterdam aanmelden voor het voortgezet onderwijs, wordt hen gevraagd hun voorkeursscholen te rangschikken. Maar wat als het aangeven van hun werkelijke voorkeuren niet de beste manier is om ... -
When data becomes a requirement for democracy
Open government was supposed to bring citizens closer to politics. By making government information publicly available, people would be better informed about the decisions that affect their lives, while at the same ... -
Erik Saaman, UvA Honorary Fellow Archiving by Design
How can we ensure that digital government information becomes and remains accessible to everyone who has an interest in it? Erik Saaman, strategic advisor on digital archiving at the National Archives, will ... -
DSC Member Spotlight: Dasha Simons
The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Dasha Simons, an interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at the Human-Aligned Video-AI (HAVA) Lab. -
AI-guided autonomous lab for peptide optimisation
Optimising medicines to improve their effectiveness is a key part of drug development. Currently, this often requires lengthy and repetitive lab work that doesn't always improve results. In a new research project of ... -
Team whIRLwind wins bronze medal at World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing
The UvA robot football team whIRLwind won a bronze medal at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing in August. The team finished third in the main robot football competition after a 3–1 victory over HyperYe, ... -
Veni grant for Simone Saitta
Simone Saitta of the Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (QurAI) group at IvI and Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics of the Amsterdam University Medical Center has received a grant of €320,000 for his ... -
Veni grant for Ana Lucic
Ana Lucic of Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group at IvI and the NLP unit at ILLC has received a grant of €320,000 for her research proposal entitled 'Mechanistic Interpretability for Graph Machine ... -
From FIFA World Cup heartbreak to robot football hope
Now that the Dutch national football team is out of the FIFA World Cup, fans looking for another team in orange can turn their attention to… robots. From 2 July to 5 July, the student team whIRLwind Amsterdam from ... -
AI still struggles to get the joke
Large language models such as ChatGPT and other AI systems have transformed the way people interact with technology. They can generate remarkably fluent text, answer complex questions and assist with everything from ... -
Machine learning to detect carbon molecules in space – and pollution on earth
All life on Earth is based on carbon. But how did carbon material evolve in space and end up on our planet? In a research project of the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists use machine learning to detect a key class of ... -
ERC Advanced Grants for philosopher of language Maria Aloni and haematologist Arnon Kater
The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to philosopher of language Maria Aloni of the UvA and haematologist Arnon Kater of Amsterdam UMC. Aloni studies how cognitive biases shape ... -
Artificial Intelligence will change chemistry forever
To Bernd Ensing, Professor of ‘AI for Chemistry’ at the University of Amsterdam's Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Artificial Intelligence will completely transform the way chemical research is ... -
UvA Data Science Centre: Highlights 2025
The UvA Data Science Centre looks back on the achievements of 2025. -
Strategic themes for collaboration and impact
The UvA is pooling its strengths around four strategic themes to make a sustained, substantive contribution to urgent, complex societal challenges. The themes bring researchers together at the intersections of ... -
DSC Member Spotlight: Inez Zwetsloot
The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Inez Zwetsloot, Associate Professor of Business Analytics at the Faculty of Economics and Business. -
When ‘sloppy’ decisions are actually smart
From a young age most people are told to be rational: weigh costs and benefits, pick the option that pays off best. But a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Marta C. Couto, ... -
Wanneer ‘slordige’ beslissingen eigenlijk slim zijn
Van jongs af aan wordt de meeste mensen geleerd rationeel te zijn: afwegingen maken tussen kosten en baten, en de optie kiezen die het meest loont. Maar een nieuwe studie in Proceedings of the National Academy of ... -
From TikTok meme to propaganda: the rise of slopaganda
AI videos, memes and bizarre TikTok trends may often seem intended purely for entertainment, but they are increasingly playing a role in modern propaganda and geopolitical influence. In the new interdisciplinary ...