I/O Award 2009 for Peter Sloot

Peter Sloot has best succeeded in bringing the results of ICT research to the attention of the general public. For this he has received the “I/O Award” at SIREN 2009. Peter Sloot received the I/O Award 2009 for the media attention that he generated for his...

Best Poster Award Carlos Tamulonis

Carlos Tamulonis received the Best Poster Award for his poster entitled “Morphometrics & mechanics in Nematostella gastrulation” during the International Workshop on the evolution of multicellularity: insights from Hydra and other basal metazoans at...

UvA software helps prevent floods

UvA participates in the European “Urbanflood” project, which will develop a system to monitor dikes, volcanoes and other sites where natural disasters such a flooding may occur. In the European “Urbanflood” project, the UvA together with TNO...

New approach to understand resistance of HIV virus

An international team of researchers lead by Prof. Peter Sloot describes in the June 1 issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A how a new computational approach allows them to understand the resistance of the HIV virus. Through a unique...