ENW-GROOT – up to € 3 million 

• Remus Dame (LIC) – Resolving the fundamental building principles of the genome 
• Tjerk Oosterkamp, together with Dirk Bouwmeester (LION) – Crossing over from the quantum world to the classical world and back 
• Jos Raaijmakers (IBL/NIOO) and Gilles van Wezel (IBL), together with Ariane Briegel (IBL) – Unwiring beneficial functions and regulatory networks in the plant endosphere
• Roeland Merks (MI) is involved in the project: Pacing the heart; studying the underlying principles of biological pacemakers 
• Simon Portegies Zwart, Elena Sellentin (STRW) and Holger Hoos (LIACS) are involved in the project: Unravelling neural networks with structure-preserving computing 
• Irene Groot (LIC) is involved in the project: Nanoplastics – Origin, structure and fate 
• Anjali Pandit (LIC) is part of the project: Nanoscale regulators of photosynthesis
• Erik Danen (LACDR), together with Thomas Schmidt and Luca Giomi (LION) – The active matter physics of collective metastasis 

ENW-KLEIN

• Marcellus Ubbink (LIC) – Temperature as a force of selection in enzyme evolution
• Tinde van Andel (IBL) and Eric Schranz (Wageningen University) – Hidden crop diversity in Suriname: tracing the origins of Maroon rice by integrating ethnobotany and genomics
• Mitra Baratchi (LIACS) – Physics-aware Spatio-temporal Machine Learning for Earth Observation Data
• Henk Hoekstra (STRW) – An all-sky monitor for the Vera Rubin Observatory 

Science-KLEIN

• Salma Balazadeh (IBL) – The regulation of plant thermomemory by plastidic metalloprotease FtsH6 

Veni – € 250,000

• Maria Arias (STRW) – Where are the exploded stars in our Milky Way?
• Alise Muok (IBL) – Bacterial hitchhiking
• Matus Rybak (STRW) – Zooming in on star factories in the early Universe
• Tomas Stolker (STRW) – Formation signatures in the atmospheres of giant exoplanets
• Alex Uta (LIACS) – Reproducible Experiments in Clouds

Vidi – € 800,000

• Daniela Kraft (LION) – Anisotropic and deformable microswimmers
• David Holmes (MI) – Where addition breaks down
• Thom Sharp (NeCEN/LUMC) – Finding a needle in the cellular haystack

Vici – € 1.5 million

• Dennis Claessen (IBL) – From stress to success 

Computing Time on National Supercomputers 

• Francisca Concha-Ramirez (STRW) –External photoevaporation shapes the distributions of circumstellar disk sizes in young star clusters 
• Huub Rottgering & Timothy Shimwell (STRW) – Realising the LOFAR surveys and opening up a new window on the Universe 
• Jelger Risselada, Niek van Hilten & Jeroen Methorst (LIC) – Multiscale simulations of membrane processes 

Technology Area (TA) 

• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) – Faster, better understanding of the building blocks of life

LIFT Grant – € 280,000 

• Gerard van Westen (LACDR) – Searching for new medicines with smart software 

ECCM Responsible Innovation Tenure Track 

• Rik Mom (LIC) receives an NWO Tenure Track  

Science Public-Private Partnership Fund – € 300,000 

• Arthur Ram (IBL) – Improve the protein factory! 

National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities 

• The uNMR-NL consortium has received € 17.9 million, of which Leiden NMR groups are part of   

Science Diplomacy Fund 

• George Miley (STRW) – ‘Astronomy for development’ events at the UN General Assembly 
• Jan Aarts (LION) – Pilot exchange project between members of the Leiden-Delft Casimir Research School and the Physics PhD Research School of HSE Moscow 

Tenants’ behavioural responses to residential energy transition   

• The consortium BEL has received € 500,000, Suzan Veberne (LIACS) is part of the consortium

NACTAR – € 350,000

• Nathaniel Martin (IBL) – Advanced Pre-clinical Evaluation of the Guanidino Lipoglycopeptides: A Novel Family of Glycopeptide Antibiotics with Best-in-Class Potential 

Rubicon Grant

• Liubov Belyaeva (LIC) has received a Rubicon Grant for research at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London 

XS Grant – up to € 50,000 

• Yasmine Abouleila (LACDR) – Dengue virus disease on a chip for novel biomarker discovery and drug screening
• Gabriel Forn Cuni (IBL) – Targeted biomolecule production for therapeutic use
• Monica Varela Alvarez (IBL) – Spreading the Fire: Why is Pyroptotic Cell Death Contagious?
• Sander Wezenberg (LIC) – Developing synthetic foldamers into membrane channels

Doctoral Grant for Teachers

• Willem Meilink & Ben Wielstra (IBL) – Hemizygous inheritance at the basis of a balanced lethal system

NWA-ORC

• The consortium Dutch Black Holes receives 4.9 million euros, the Astronomy and Society group (STRW) is part of the consortium
• The consortium BioClock receives 9.7 million euros, the institutes CML, IBL and LACDR are part of the consortium 
• The consortium Quantum Inspire has received 4.5 million euros, the institutes LIACS and LION are part of the consortium 

NWA Ecology and North Sea – €750,000 

• Hans Slabbekoorn (IBL) – Acoustic ecology of pelagic fish communities (APELAFICO): a study into the effects of construction and operation of wind farms 

Dekker Grant: Established Investigator – € 650,000

• Ilze Bot (LACDR) receives the Established Investigator grant

ERC Synergy Grant

• Hermen Overkleeft (LIC), Gideon Davies (University of York) and Carme Rovira (University of Barcelona) have received an ERC Synergy Grant of 9.1 million euros

ERC Proof of Concept Grant – € 150,000 

• Dennis Hetterscheid (LIC) – Determining the market value of very diluted hydrogen peroxide 

ERC Consolidator Grant  – € 2 million

• Martina Vijver (CML) – Predicting the toxicity of nanomaterials in the ecosystem
• Elena Maria Rossi (STRW) – Catching stars to reveal the secrets of the darkness

Future and Emerging Technologies Fund

• Sense Jan van der Molen (LION) has reveived € 1.5 million for developing a ONEM microscope

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• Marcel Schaaf & Erin Faught (IBL) have received € 250,000 for MeRGeR
• Annemarie Meijer (IBL) received € 270,000 for INFLANET 
• The NETWORKS consortium receives € 3 million, Frank den Hollander (MI) is involved 

• Elizabeth de Lange (LACDR) has received € 6.24 million with her consortium QSPainRelief 
• Amanda Foks (LACDR) has received an ERA-CVD Grant of € 836,000 with her consortium B-eatATHERO
• The NEXT-Discovery consortium has received 10 million euros, of which the Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN) is part of
• The consortium NExt ApplicationS of Quantum Computing (NEASQC) has received 5 million euros, LIACS is part of the consortium 
• Gilles van Wezel (IBL) leads the consortium MARBLES, which has received 7.5 million euros
• Hans Slabbekoorn (IBL) received € 510,000 for MIGRADROME, as part of the SATURN consortium

Gratama Foundation & LUF – € 25,000

• Fredj Ben Bdira (LIC) – Bacterial chromatin proteins as targets for new antibacterial agents 

SVM (Foundation for packaging and environment) & LUF – € 75.000

• Valerio Barbarossa (CML) – An environmental assessment of biodegradable bioplastics for use in a sustainable Dutch food system

Elise Mathilde Fund & LUF – € 25.000

• Ahmed Ali (LACDR) – Circulating tumor cells: A novel target for noninvasive cancer diagnosis 

LUF Lustrum Subsidy – € 150,000 

• Ionica Smeets (IBL), Sanne Willems (MI) and Peter Burger (Humanities) – Using factchecks to combat misleading graphs

• Ariane Briegel (IBL) has received a grant of 800,000 euros from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Martijn Bezemer (IBL) is part of the consortium Silva Nova, which received a Novo Nordisk Fund Grant

KNAW/Dobberke Stichting – € 4000

• Christian Tudorache – Sociaal gedrag als onderdeel van coping styles in zebravis

Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health – € 1 million

• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) leads a Covid-19 consortium

Platform Digitale Infrastructuur Social Science and Humanities (PDI-SSH)

• The consortium POPNET receives € 1 million, Frank Takes (LIACS) is part of the consortium

• Jacqueline Meulman (MI) receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement 
• Tessa Verhoef (LIACS) receives the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility 
• Dian Triastari Armanda (CML) wins the Stans Prize for best PhD paper 
• Fenna Plaisier (CML) wins the Stans Prize for best outreach
• Martin van Hecke (LION) wins the 2020 Physica Award 

• Jorryt Matthee (STRW) wins the European MERAC Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis 
• Martina Vijver (CML), Felienne Hermans (LIACS) and Irene Groot (LIC) are in the Leiden Top 50 
• Anne Meeussen (LION) wins the Fysica 2020 Young Speakers’ Contest 
• Ad IJzerman (LACDR) wins the Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award 
• Omid Karami (IBL) wins the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award

• Mark Koenis (LIC) won the Dick Stufkens Prize 2020
• Liesbeth de Lange (LACDR) wins the Lewis B. Sheiner Career Prize
• Koen Bastiaans (LION) wins the first edition of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest Physics Thesis Prize
• Michiel Veldhuis (CML) wins the KNAW Early Career Award
• The Wall Formula project, which Sense Jan van der Molen (LION) is part of, wins the NWO Communication Award
• The project IAU100 (STRW) wins the NWO Communication Award
• Marc Koper (LIC) wins the Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science
• Liselotte Rambonnet (IBL) is in the Duurzame Jonge 100 list and her Canal Cups project she runs together with alumnus Biology Auke-Florian Hiermstra (Naturalis) rose to the 27th place in Trouw's Sustainable 100 list

• Lisa Bruil (IBL) receives the Kees Bakker Award 
• Max Reinicke (CML) wins the Stans Prize for best student’s thesis 
• Maddalena Centanni (LACDR) wins the 2020 Arenberg Coimbra Prize for Erasmus Students 

• A team of students from Leiden and Groningen won the second prize at the European final of the BISC-E sustainability competition with Suckerspheres
• Wisse van Os (Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Jip Linthorst (Pharmacy) both received a KNMP Student Award 
• Jo-Anne Verschoor (IBL) wins the Unilever Research Prize 2020
• The students from iGEM Leiden have won the Grand Prize at iGEM 

• Pim Spelier (MI) wins the ASML Graduation Prize
• Jorre The (MI) wins the ORTEC Incentive Prizes for Mathematics and Technical Mathematics
• Britt van Kasterop (IBL) wins the Holland Society Young Talent Award

• Matthias Barz (LACDR) has been appointed as Professor of Biotherapeutics Delivery 
• Nele Mentens (LIACS) has been appointed as Professor of Applied Cryptography & Data Security 
• Joost Batenburg (LIACS) has been appointed as Professor for SAILS 

• Marnix Medema is the visiting professor of the Van der Klaauw Chair (IBL)
• Volkert van Steijn (TU Delft) is the new Programme Director for Bsc Molecular Science & Technology
• Jan Willem Erisman (CML) has been appointed as Professor of Environmental Sustainability

• Serena Viti (STRW) has been appointed as Professor of Molecular Astrophysics
• Gerard van Westen (LACDR) has been appointed as Professor or Artificial Intelligence and Medicinal Chemistry
• Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 (MI) 

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) has been appointed as Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry
• Jeroen Codée (LIC) has been appointed as Professor of Organic Chemistry
• Remus Dame (LIC) has been appointed as Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
• The Sport Data Center, a consortium led by Leiden University, is recognised as a Certified Partner of Sportinnovator
• Laura Heitman (LACDR) has been appointed as Professor of Molecular Pharmacology
• Dennis Claessen (IBL) has been appointed as Professor of Molecular Microbiology
• Marco Spruit (LIACS) has been appointed Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health
• Maarten de Jong (LION) has been appointed part-time professor in Experimental Astroparticle Physics 

• Menno Schilthuizen (IBL) has been appointed as a member of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)
• Emiel Por (STRW) has been selected as a Hubble Fellow by NASA 
• Annemarie Meijer (IBL) has been appointed as training coordinator of INFLANET
• Huib van Langevelde (STRW) has been selected as the new Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
• Jan Aarts (LION) has been elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Carlo Beenakker (LION) has been elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society