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Reunion after 30 years
On October 1st 1989 a group of twelve Italian students arrived at the University of Amsterdam for the Erasmus exchange programme, which helps students to study abroad. Now, exactly 30 years later, they meet again for a reunion together with the ...
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Boudewijn Wijnands
Boudewijn Wijnands won the AUV Alumni Award for Deedmob, an online platform that brings together people seeking voluntary opportunities with social, private and public sector organisations and agencies. The Amsterdam Alumni Association AUV ...
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Mostafa Dehghani
PhD student Mostafa Dehghani recieved a UvA385 grant in honour of the University's 385th anniversary. He used the grant for a research visit to an institute in Montreal.
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Nico van Eijk & Edo Roos Lindgreen
In honour of Data Privacy Day and the launch of the 2018 Amsterdam Privacy Conference , an interview with Nico van Eijk and Edo Roos Lindgreen.
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Kaikai Jing
She received her bachelor's degree in Economics and her master's degree in Finance from the University of Amsterdam in 2008. To support people like herself, the international alumni, she started the International Alumni Network Netherlands.
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Alon Ben Joseph
At age 12, Alon Ben Joseph sold Swatch watches in his parents’ jewellery business; at 19, he became Vice President of that same business. He reinvented the jewellery industry by being the first to set up an e-boutique for online sales.
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Luca Bertolini
The world is rapidly urbanising. How will city planners cope with larger populations? And how will future urban dwellers move about? These are some of the questions Luca Bertolini, professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the UvA, focuses on ...
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Yan Yang
She studied so hard that she didn’t get to see much of Amsterdam, but Chinese student Yan Yang did learn to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). That brought her to New York, where she obtained a doctorate in molecular biology, ...
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Frank Cobelens
As newly appointed head of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), Prof. Frank Cobelens plans to build further on the institute's mission to provide sustainable solutions to major health problems.
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Arnold Smeulders
How will large-scale data sets and artificial intelligence change our lives?
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Joyeeta Gupta
How do we ensure a better life for everyone on the planet without damaging the ecosystem on we all depend?
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Thijs Meijer
'There's more to entrepreneurship than just a good idea. The main thing is to know your customer and that's why I like to work with the lean start-up canvas and the business-model canvas.'
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Cyriel Pennartz
In 2013 the EU launched the Human Brain Project (HBP), the most comprehensive research project in the history of brain research. One of the HBP's sub-projects is being headed by Professor Cyriel Pennartz from the UvA's Swammerdam Institute for ...
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Arian van Asten and Maurice Aalders
In 2013, the UvA took an important step in strengthening forensic research in the Netherlands by partnering in the creation of the Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center (CLHC).
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Merel Kindt
Is it possible to eliminate extreme anxiety? Merel Kindt, professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at the UvA, is conducting research into a new form of therapy that promises to be a game-changer in the treatment of anxiety disorders
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Robert Kloosterman
The process of urbanisation has increased noticeably in recent decades and has been accompanied by fundamental changes to urban areas as centres of economic activity. As professor of Economic Geography and Planning, Robert Kloosterman takes a ...
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Sunil Jhamb
He received an MBA from the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Now he lives and works in India and the Netherlands.
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Nani Jansen
How do you become a human rights advocate? Which career choices brought Nani where she is now: defending the rights of journalists around the world?
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Thomas Buser
Are men more competitive than women? And if so, could this account for gender differences in career choices?
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Parika Ganeriwal
What is it like to recieve the prestigious Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship? Parika Ganeriwal tells us about her experiences at the University of Amsterdam.
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