Grants 2019
An overview
Veni grant – € 250,000
- Camila Correa (STRW) – Do dark matter particles interact with each other?
- Max van Duijn (LIACS) – A telling story: how children develop as storytellers and mindreaders
- Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) – Are you sure you didn't miss something?
- Sergii Pud (LION) – Molecular ping-pong to study proteins
- Mónica Varela Álvarez (IBL) – Conquering the tuberculosis fortress
- Joseph Callingham (STRW) – Life around a radio star
- Melissa McClure (STRW) – Jumpstarting life on terrestrial planets
Vidi grant – € 800,000
- Alessandra Silvestri (STRW) – Lighting up Einstein’s Dark Universe
- Sander Wezenberg (LIC) – Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicate
- Tim van Erven (MI) – Automatic faster learning for artificial intelligence
Vici grant – € 1.5 million
- Jeroen Codée (LIC) – Sweet reaction mechanisms
- Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) – Blocking cancer proteins with metallodrugs and light

TOP grant – € 249,000
- Matthijs van Leeuwen (LIACS) – Human-Guided Data Science by Interactive Model Selection
Physics Projectruimte
- Jan Aarts (LION) – Spin texture Josephson junctions
- Vadim Cheianov (LION) – Slow as light, fast as a snail
Rubicon
- Valeriya Korol (STRW) – Listening to Einstein’s invisible waves from the Milky Way
Comenius programme
- Ludo Juurlink (LIC) receives € 250,000 for 'Studying Mobile' and becomes a Leadership Fellow
- Fred Janssen (ICLON) receives € 100,000 for 'Research-driven learning for large groups' and becomes a Senior Fellow
Science KLEIN-1 – up to € 350,000
- Dennis Claessen (IBL) – Do cells without a cell wall play a role in chronic tuberculosis infections?
- Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Quantum Hall physics in a Weyl superconductor
Living labs in the Dutch delta
- The Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) is involved in the Dutch project C-SHAPE, which received 1 million euros
Research along Routes by Consortia (ORC)
- Peter Klinkhamer (IBL) leads the project 'Self Defense: Mimicking natural deterrent strategies in plants using adhesive spheres and volatiles', which received 1.4 million euros
- Maarten Schrama (CML) is involved in the project 'Preparing for vector-borne virus outbreaks in a changing world: a One Health Approach', which received 9 million euros
- Tjerk Oosterkamp (LION) is involved in the project 'Quantum microscopy: A new tool for future technologies', which received 1.4 million euros
- LIACS is involved in the project CORTEX, which received 5 million euros
Idea Generator – € 50,000
- Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber (LION) – Is air pollution behind dementia? Unraveling the origin of magnetite nanoparticles in the brain
- Joost Beltman (LACDR) – Integration of machine learning and mechanistic models to analyse network dynamics
- Yasmine Abouleila (LACDR) – Disease biomarker detection for Ebola and Lassa virus induced vasculopathy
- Daniel Rozen (IBL) – Experimental evolution of beneficial soil microbiomes
Dekker grant – € 427,000
- Amanda Foks receives the Dekker grant from the Dutch Hartstichting
ERC Consolidator Grant – € 2 million
- Simcha Jong Kon Chin (LIACS) – International consortia: the future for science?
ERC Advanced Grant – € 2 million
- Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Majorana fermions in superconductors
Proof of Concept Grant
- Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) receives 150,000 euros for research into light-activated chemotherapy
- Agur Sevink (LIC), Willie Peijnenburg, and Martina Vijver (CML) are involved in the European project NanoInformatics, which received 6.8 million euros
- Herman Spaink (IBL) is involved in the international consortium RespiriTB/RespiriNTM, which received 18 million euros from the Innovative Medicines Initiative
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) and Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) are involved in the project LogicLab, which received 3.5 million euros
- Michael Emmerich, Frank Takes and Suzan Verberne (LIACS) are involved in RISE_SMA, which received 1,168,400 euros
Coordination and Support Actions – € 1 million
- Huub de Groot (LIC) coordinates the international consortium SUNRISE
FET Open
- Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) is part of the consortium SoFiA, which received 3.2 million euros
- Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) is involved in the project DuSRA-VOILA, which received 8.5 million euros
Den Dulk-Moermans Fund – € 25,000
- Valeriya Korol (STRW) has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowship 2019 of 25,000 dollars
- The Leiden Hortus botanicus has received an inheritance of 5 million euros from the estate of Carla van Steijn
- Alireza Mashaghi (LACDR) receives the Personal Grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Rychard Bouwens (STRW) has been assigned a Large Programme from ALMA