Awards and Prizes

• Dr. Alexander van Oudenhoven chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Science Faculty
• Dr. Changsheng Wu (IBL) reveived the C.J. Kokprize for best PhD-thesis
• Life work award for computer scientist Grzegorz Rozenberg
• NWO-subsidies for chemical reactions in space
• Professor Jaap van den Herik was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Security and Justice (WODC)

• PhD student Christian Eistrup wins Leiden FameLab
• Professor Marc Koper receives the Faraday Medal 2017
• Dr. Jeroen Codee receives the biennial Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Chemistry
• Professor Marin van Heel receives the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
• Dr. Célia Fonseca Guerra appointed professor in Applied Theoretical Chemistry
• Professor Vera van Noort appointed professor in Computational Biology
• Dr. Paul Keβler appointed professor on the special chair Botanical gardens and botany of South-East Asia

• Marileen Dogterom new KNAW board member
• Professor Ronald Cramer received an ERC Advanced Grant from the EU for his proposal 'Algebraic Methods for Stronger Crypto'

• PhD student Lisanne Rens receives the H.D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award
• Professor Jo Hermans receives the Gero Thomas Commemorative Medal from The European Physical Society (EPS) 
• Joanna Pawlak to Yale University School of Medicine 
• Changsheng Wu to Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University
• Professor Hermen Overkleeft appointed the new Scientific Director of chemistry institute LIC
• Dr. Remko Offringa appointed professor in Plant Developmental Genetics
• Professor Koos Biesmeijer appointed professor in Natural Capital

• Gravitation grant of 18.8 million euros for developing quantum software
• Vidi Awards for Jordy Bouwman and Reinout van Weeren
• NWO grant for Ignas Snellen
• NWO Projectruimte Grant for DNA Flexibility Research
• dr. Sven Askes selected to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2017
• PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek nominated for New Scientist Talent prize
• Professor Meindert Danhof receives Presidential Citation from the International Pharmaceutical Federation
• Vidi Award for Rawi Ramautar
• Dr. Ewa Snaar-Jagalska appointed professor in Cellular Tumor Biology
• Researchers from MI and LION participate in NOW Zwaartekracht program on Quantum Software
• Dr. Marta Fiocco receives a grant from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding)
• Dr. Jordy Bouwman receives a Vidi grant from NWO for "Chemistry in exotic worlds"
• Professor Helmut Schiessel receives NWO Projectruimte grant of 390,000 euro for research on the flexibility of double stranded DNA

• PhD student Sung-Shik Jongmans receives the IPA Dissertation Award 2016
• Dr. Adrian Hamer received the PhD thesis award prize of the International Astronomical Union
• Professor Mario van der Stelt receives the Young Investigator Award from the International Cannabinoid Research Society
• Annelot van Esbroeck wins awards at international conference in Canada
• Dr. John van Noort appointed professor in Biophysics
• Professor Marc Koper was appointed as member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)
• Professor Thomas Hankemeier receives grant from Zon-MW for the further development of their "microvessel-on-a-chip-model"

• Veni Awards for Yannick Bahé, Marcel van Daalen and Matthieu Schaller 
• Veni Award for Thanja Lamberts
• Dr. Milan Allan received the Bryan R. Coles Prize at the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES)
• Rubicon for ‘Artificial Sun’
• Veni Award for Fleur Visser
• Dr. Christopher Berg Smiet receives NWO Rubicon grant to conduct postdoctoral research for two years at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
• Dr. Martina Vijver is the coordinator of the Leiden part of the PATROLS project, that received over 13 million euros from the EU
• Science Agenda Starting Incentive invests in Leiden research

• ERC Starting Grants for Milan Allan & Daniela Kraft 
• Veni Grant for Lucia Bossoni
• Dutch Cancer Society Fund grant for Leiden breast cancer research
• Dr. Julia Cramer receives NWO's Minerva Prize for research in the field of quantum science and technology
• Dr. Michiel Hogerheijde became professor by special appointment of Instrumental Astronomy at UvA on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Physics, Medicine and Surgery 
• Dr. Henk Hoekstra was appointed as Professor of Observational Cosmology
• Dr. Lianne Reinders (Reizend DNA Lab) receives 300.000 USD from the Amgen Foundation

• Dr. Jian Wang receives the inaugural Eugene Garfield Award
• NOVA and the Astronomy institutes in The Netherlands rated as ‘exemplary’ (amongst the 5 top institutes worldwide) by the research peer review panel
• Professor Michel Orrit receives the Spinoza Prize from NWO
• PhD student Annelot van Esbroeck-Weevers reveives the Best Oral Communication Prize at the 8th European Workshop on Cannabinoid Research
• Bernice Dekker was appointed assessor of Faculty of Science Board 2017-2018

• Dr. Frank Takes receives the Young Scientist Award 2017 for his research about tax havens
• The Dutch Research School for Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) receives excellent ratings from an independent international committee
• Dr. Sven Askes receives the Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) 
• Professor Mario van der Stelt receives the Prix Galien Reasearch Award
• PhD student Anthe Janssen revieved the prize for best presentation in the section Pharmacochemistry at the Dutch Medicines Days
• Professor Mario van der Stelt wins Galenus Research Prize 2017
• Nathalie Ortiz Zacarias wins PhD-competition Dutch Medicine days
• Professor Jos van den Broek receives the "Gouden Speld" from the city of Leiden
• Professor Rob Verpoorte receives the Egon-Stahl award in gold from the  Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research 
• Royal distinction for retiring professor Gerard Persoon

• Professor Wessel Kraaij became Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
• PhD student Sander Blok receives the LION Image Award 2017
• Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry awards PhD project to David Klein
• Professor Martina Vijver receives a Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council
• New rare plant species named after Hortus prefect professor Paul Kessler
• Professor Joost Kok was appointed to be the new Dean of University of Twente’s EEMCS Faculty

• Joost Batenburg receives Dutch prize for ICT research 2018
• Grzegorz Rozenberg appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands
• George Miley recieves honorary doctorate in Dublin