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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.