Natural Sciences - Mathematics
Homestretch | Using mathematics to protect African wildlife
New, smart computational models can quickly and efficiently analyze animal behavior. African wildlife rangers have recently started using drones to protect animals from poachers.
Pioneering researchers receive Vici
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici funding to 39 adventurous, talented and pioneering researchers, including five from VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC/affiliated VU.
Six Vidi grants for UT researchers
Six researchers from the University of Twente, Marcello Carioni (EEMCS), Andrea Continella (EEMCS), Gregor Gantner (EEMCS external), Lonneke Lenferink (BMS), Gaurav Rattan (EEMCS), and Nicola Strisciuglio (EEMCS), have been awarded a Vidi grant. NWO has granted a maximum of ¤ 850,000 to 149 scientists from the domains of Science (ENW), Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES), and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), as well as Health, Research, and Development (ZonMw).
TU Delft sets national record with largest human pi symbol
On Tuesday, 3 March 2026, at precisely 3:14 p.m., TU Delft's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) set a national record with the largest human - symbol in the Netherlands. With 550 participants, students, staff, alumni, and other interested parties jointly formed the iconic mathematical symbol on the football field at location X on the campus in Delft.
Research confirms: fire brigade response time is crucial
An analysis of 15,576 fires in the Netherlands shows that the longer it takes the fire brigade to arrive on the scene, the greater the damage. The likelihood of severe damage or total loss increases by about 1.2% with each additional minute.
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PhD Position on Parameterized and Fine-Grained Complexity of NP-Hard Problems Utrecht University
