The flagship annual event of the UvA Data Science Centre returns on 30 October 2025 as AI & Data Science Day and will be hosted in the brand-new University Library in Amsterdam.

The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grant to AI scientist Maarten de Rijke and five other researchers of the UvA. The grants, which amount to 2.5 million euros per project, are ...

Misinformation is playing an increasingly significant role on social media. Kamila Koronska, research officer at the University of Amsterdam, is working to counter this development through her research. ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to UvA academics particle physicist Gianfranco Bertone, astronomer Carsten Dominik, political scientist Marieke de Goede, ...

How do you intuitively know that you can walk on a footpath and swim in a lake? Researchers from the University of Amsterdam have discovered unique brain activations that reflect how we can move our bodies through an ...

Curious about the work of our Data Science Centre Affiliate Members? This month, we introduce Jan-Christoph Kalo, Assistant Professor at the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab.

Stefania Milan is part of a consortium that has been awarded £10 million to establish the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life. This centre, which will be based at Durham University, and led by Prof. Louise Amoore, ...

Deepfakes, manipulated videos of people, are a growing problem. Whether it's a Dutch celebrity edited into an existing porn video using Artificial Intelligence (AI), or a head of state proclaiming damaging falsehoods ...

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Government of the Netherlands (Rijksoverheid) have jointly launched the ICAI OpenGov Lab, a new AI research lab focused on Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language ...

Curious about the work of our Data Science Centre Affiliate Members? This month, we introduce Marija Maric, Associate Professor in Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Child Development and Education.

As climate-related disasters grow more intense and frequent, an international team of researchers has introduced Aurora—a groundbreaking AI model designed to deliver faster, more accurate, and more affordable ...

The AI system AlphaTensor-Quantum can make quantum computing more efficient. By optimizing quantum circuits, it makes calculations more efficient to save resources and accelerate discoveries.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an SSH XS grant titled 'Leveraging Nighttime Light Data to Reveal Global Economic Dynamics' to Dr. Debraj Roy of the Informatics Institute, for innovative research ...

Max Welling has been selected as a new member by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). KNAW members are appointed based on their excellent scientific presentations. This year, 17 new members were ...