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 ...

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 ...

The UvA Data Science Centre looks back on the achievements of 2025.

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 ...

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.

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 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, ...

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 ...

Dr Stefano Polla has been appointed Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing and Simulation for Quantum Chemistry and Materials. He will develop quantum computing algorithms for applications in chemistry, such as the ...

Current treatments for most brain diseases relieve symptoms but do not cure the disease. One of the main challenges is delivering a cure because drugs need to be able to cross the protective barrier surrounding the ...

At the end of April, LAB42 hosted the Amsterdam stop of Next Frontier AI, a European roadshow organised by SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. After earlier events in cities including ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Erkan Karabulut, PhD student at the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab).

Sennay Ghebreab is professor of Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems at the UvA and founder of the Civic AI Lab, which researches how AI and data can promote equal opportunities in areas such as education, health ...

Language models like ChatGPT are not neutral. Without our realising it, they can absorb all kinds of bias – for example around gender and ethnicity – which then become increasingly embedded in the model. According to ...

Despite the fact that leaky blood vessels occur in many diseases and can be life-threatening, there is currently no medication available to address this. In a new research project by the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists ...