NWO Veni 2025

Recipients

• Mark G. Sterken

  High-resolution genome assembly and linkage mapping in Meloidogyne hapla reveal non-canonical telomere repeats and recombination hotspots associated with effector proteins

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Chia‐Fu Yu

  When is a polarised abelian variety determined by its 𝑝-divisible group?

  National Center for Theoretical Sciences · TW

• Caleb Springer

  Abelian varieties over finite fields and their groups of rational points

  Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research · GB

• Greta Zella

  The Role of Neologisms in the Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up Social Change?

  University of Groningen · NL

• Victoria G. Mason

  Emerging trade-offs in saltmarsh ecosystem services under sea-level rise

  Utrecht University · NL

• Maximilian J. L. J. Fürst

  Enriching stabilizing mutations through automated analysis of molecular dynamics simulations using BoostMut

  University of Groningen · NL

• Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx

  Post-Polymerization Modification of Polyethylene through Photochemical Oximation and Consecutive Ketonization

  Utrecht University · NL

• Thorsten Joachims

  CONSEQUENCES 2025 - The 4th Workshop on Causality, Counterfactuals and Sequential Decision-Making for Recommender Systems

  Cornell University · US

• Jan Friso Groote

  The Autonomous Data Language – Concepts, design and formal verification

• Simon D. Pouwels

  The Calprotectin Fragment, CPa9-HNE, Is a Plasma Biomarker of Mild Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  University Medical Center Groningen · NL

• Matilde Galli

  Transcriptional repression of central spindle factors controls endomitosis in the <i>C. elegans</i> intestine

  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · NL

• Joost van den Heuvel

  <i>Bombus terrestris</i> Complementary Sex Determiner (BtCSD) is identified as a conserved hymenopteran sex determination region: evolution, breeding, and conservation implications

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Nima Mesgarani

  Joint Population Coding and Temporal Coherence Link an Attended Talker’s Voice and Location Features in Naturalistic Multi-talker Scenes

  Brain (Germany) · DE

• Mariana A S Artur

  The phylotranscriptomic profile of angiosperm seed development follows a reverse hourglass pattern

  Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences · NL

• Ioana A. Cristea

  Efficacy and moderators of cognitive behavioural therapy versus interpersonal psychotherapy for adult depression: study protocol of a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

  University of Padua · IT

• Fulvio Reggiori

  Influenza A virus subverts the LC3-pericentrin dynein adaptor complex for host cytoplasm entry

  University Medical Center Groningen · NL

• Kübra Gülmez Karaca

  Posttraining noradrenergic stimulation maintains hippocampal engram reactivation and episodic-like specificity of remote memory

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Gregory Heyworth

  Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn:

  University of Rochester · US

• Jana Wagemaker

  StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Michał Rybak

  Understanding stoichiometric adjustments in a freshwater plant: Responses to sediment and water nutrient dynamics across lake trophic gradients

  Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań · PL

• Matthias Wellershoff

  Phasebook: A Survey of Selected Open Problems in Phase Retrieval

• Anton Bredenbeck

  A Tactile Feedback Approach to Path Recovery After High-Speed Impacts for Collision-Resilient Drones

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Teresa Bister

  Probing the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays—Constraints from Cosmic-Ray Measurements

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Aleks Kissinger

  Optimal compilation of parametrised quantum circuits

  University of Oxford · GB

• Lisa Bauer

  Non-polio enteroviruses compromise the electrophysiology of a human iPSC-derived neural network

  Erasmus MC · NL

• Giorgio Micali

  Ordinal pattern-based change point detection

  University of Twente · NL

• Tim Groot Kormelink

  Meaningful informed consent? How participants experience and understand data donation

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Silvia Ritsch

  CAKE requires programming - On the provable post-quantum security of (O)CAKE

• David Soriano

  Roadmap on quantum magnetic materials

  University of Alicante · ES

• Maarten C. Eisma

  Prolonged grief symptoms and lingering attachment predict approach behavior toward the deceased

  University of Groningen · NL

• Caroline Fernandes Caromano

  Surinamese Maroon and Indigenous Knowledge in the Creation of Natural and Ethnographic Collections Housed in The Netherlands

  Leiden University · NL

• Maciej Kierkla

  Finite-temperature bubble nucleation with shifting scale hierarchies

  University of Warsaw · PL

• Daniel García‐Castellanos

  Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate

  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ES

• Pjotr Buys

  Optimal Zero‐Free Regions for the Independence Polynomial of Bounded Degree Hypergraphs

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Eva Meijer

  Rethinking the Political with Other Animals. Eva Meijer in Conversation with Dariusz Gzyra and Patryk Szaj

• Willemijn Krebbekx

  Spring Fever in The Netherlands: Framing Child Sexuality in Sex Education and Its Controversies

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• M. (Marshall) Ball

  Strong pseudorandom functions in AC0[2] in the bounded-query setting

• Jeroen Dera

  Students’ Perceptions of the Benefits of Literary Reading in School and Leisure Contexts

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong

  Making an Embodied Absence Present: Tourism and the Cultural Imaginary of Slavery and Colonial Heritage in the Netherlands

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Afra Klarenbeek

  Politeness without payoff? Evaluating the effect of a short pragmatics intervention on L1 request writing

  Tilburg University · NL

• Pilar Bobadilla Ugarte

  Cyanobacterial Argonautes and Cas4 family nucleases cooperate to interfere with invading DNA

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Alen Faiz

  Genome-Wide Differential Airway Gene Expression Analysis Identifies Genes Associated with COPD Comorbidities

  University of Technology Sydney · AU

• Ellen Driessen

  Developing a multivariable prediction model to support personalized selection among five major empirically-supported treatments for adult depression. Study protocol of a systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Giedo Jansen

  Why are employees most susceptible to automation least likely to retrain? Automation risks and inequalities in learning intention, perceived opportunities, and learning participation among employee groups

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Guido Giannetti

  Water and Collagen: A Mystery Yet to Unfold

  University of Vienna · AT

• Katerina V.‐A. Johnson

  Probiotics reduce negative mood over time: the value of daily self-reports in detecting effects

  Leiden University · NL

• G. Aad

  Observation of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>t</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow></mml:math> Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msqrt><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>NN</mml:mi></mml:mrow>

  Aix-Marseille Université · FR

• Alessandra Pizzuti

  In the brain of the beholder: bi-stable motion reveals mesoscopic-scale feedback modulation in V1

• E. Johanna L. Stéen

  Characterization of [3H]AZ12464237 as a high affinity, non-nucleotide antagonist radioligand for the P2Y12 receptor

  Amsterdam Neuroscience · NL

• Małgorzata K. Włodarczyk‐Biegun

  Designing Smartly: Understanding the Crystallinity of Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds

  Silesian University of Technology · PL

• Zamekile D. Bhembe

  Birds With Distinct Ecological Traits Show Varied Haemoglobin Adaptations Along Elevation Gradients

  University of Eswatini · SZ

• Alexandra Schwinges

  Are News Media Biting Hard Enough? Public Watchdog Role Expectations and Performance Evaluations in the Era of Big Tech

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Silja Zimmermann

  Value change debt as a window of opportunity for transformative change: a case study on the mixed Indigenous food system of St. Paul Island, Alaska

  Utrecht University · NL

• Stéfanie André

  Fathers, Families, and Society: A Two-Decade Systematic Literature Review on the Contexts and Consequences of Paternity and Parental Leave for Fathers

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Sara Geven

  Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Sara Geven

  Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Dick W. Zijlmans

  PRC1 and PRC2 proximal interactome in mouse embryonic stem cells

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Nicol Alejandra Arellano-Véliz

  Beyond Words: Speech Coordination Linked to Personality and Appraisals

  University of Groningen · NL

• Nico Wunderling

  Pinpointing Amazon forest tipping in global warming and deforestation pathways

  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research · DE

• Evin Aktar

  Do maternal and paternal social trait anxiety explain individual differences in offspring stress reactions during a social performance task?

  Leiden University · NL

• Siddharth Deshpande

  Understanding the Stability of Poorly Covered Pickering Emulsions Using on‐Chip Microfluidics

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Barbara M. Tomotani

  Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis

  Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate · NO

• Daniel Hoonhout

  Towards Stable Second-Kind Boundary Integral Equations for Transient Wave Problems

• Yury Tavyrikov

  Carefree multiple testing with e-processes

• Wouter van Bergen

  Site-Specific Competitive Kinase Inhibitor Target Profiling Using Phosphonate Affinity Tags

  Utrecht University · NL

• Azhar Farooq

  Image closures of symmetric wide-matrix varieties

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Konradin F. Müskens

  Increased Clonal Hematopoiesis in Long-term Survivors of Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

  Princess Máxima Center · NL

• Jana Declercq

  It’s Not Written All Over My Face

  University of Antwerp · BE

• G. Fedoseev

  Production of linear alkanes via the solid-state hydrogenation of interstellar polyynes

• Fabian Eisenreich

  Thiosemicarbazones as versatile photoswitches with light-controllable supramolecular activity

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven

  Synthetic control over lattice strain in trimetallic AuCu-core Pt-shell nanoparticles

  Utrecht University · NL

• Haoyu Wu

  Multi-omics analysis reveals distinct gene regulatory mechanisms between primary and organoid-derived human hepatocytes

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Haoyu Wu

  Multi-omics analysis reveals distinct gene regulatory mechanisms between primary and organoid-derived human hepatocytes

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Roderick P. Tas

  Single-lipid tracking reveals heterogeneities in the nanoscale dynamics of colloid-supported lipid bilayers

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Johan H. van de Minkelis

  Critical parameters and mechanism for hydrothermal polyethylene conversion

  Utrecht University · NL

• Johan H. van de Minkelis

  Critical parameters and mechanism for hydrothermal polyethylene conversion

  Utrecht University · NL

• Qi Wu

  Proximity-enhanced cysteine–histidine crosslinking for elucidating intrinsically disordered and other protein complexes

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Gianluca Sperduti

  PSET: a Phonetics-Semantics Evaluation Testbed

• Melissa van Beekveld

  Logarithmically-accurate and positive-definite NLO shower matching

  National Institute for Subatomic Physics · NL

• João Pedro Quintais

  A new liability paradigm for online platforms in EU copyright law

• Alisa van de Haar

  Selling French: Netherlandish Migrants as Linguistic Brokers in Early Modern Germany (1560–1600)

  Leiden University · NL

• Malte Lüken

  Parameter identifiability in evidence-accumulation models: The effect of error rates on the diffusion decision model and the linear ballistic accumulator

  Netherlands eScience Center · NL

• Clemens Dubslaff

  Tailoring binary decision diagram compilation for feature models

• Emin Onur Karakaslar

  Resolving inter- and intra-patient heterogeneity in NPM1-mutated AML at single-cell resolution

  Leiden University Medical Center · NL

• Bob Week

  Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution

  University of Oregon · US

• Jellie Sierksma

  Mastery‐Oriented or Outcome‐Oriented Help? How Recipient Ethnicity and Task Difficulty Shape Children's Helping Behavior

  University of Applied Sciences Utrecht · NL

• Maaike Venema-Los

  On the graph theory of majority illusions: theoretical results and computational experiments

  University of Groningen · NL

• Benny Markovitch

  Game-Based Cognitive Aging Assessment: Toward a Digital Biomarker of Cognitive Health

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Jeroen Hopster

  Vertical Technologies and Relational Values: Rethinking Ethics of Technology in an Age of Extractivism

  Utrecht University · NL

• M. Rybak

  Detection of millimetre-wave coronal emission in a quasar at cosmological distance using microlensing

• Rosalie W.M. Kempkes

  Human monocyte inflammation in patients with Lp(a) or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is not accompanied by changes in chromatin accessibility in circulating classical monocytes

  Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NL

• Matilde Galli

  Transcriptional repression of central spindle factors controls endomitosis in the <i>C. elegans</i> intestine

  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · NL

• Brechtje E. J. van Zeijts

  Children’s comprehension processes and outcomes across different media formats: a think-aloud study comparing expository texts and videos

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Mariana Hase Ueta

  The horizons of change: between past memories and future imaginations in sustainable food transitions

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Delia Dumitrica

  ‘If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave in Europe

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Marleen K. Termeer

  Money and mid-republican Rome

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Brechtje E. J. van Zeijts

  Children’s comprehension processes and outcomes across different media formats: a think-aloud study comparing expository texts and videos

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Jacqueline Peters

  The Act of Measurement: The Influence of Behavioural Tests on Spider Fear and Disgust

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Andreu Casas

  Commentary: How do we get platforms to share data with independent researchers? Regulation alone will not cut it: a commentary on Livingston et al. (2023), Bourgaize et al. (2025)

  Royal Holloway University of London · GB

• Vinicius Hernandes

  Exploring biological neuronal correlations with quantum generative models

  QuTech · NL

• Anna J. Wallenius

  A ubiquitous and diverse methanogenic community drives microbial methane cycling in eutrophic coastal sediments

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Anna J. Wallenius

  A ubiquitous and diverse methanogenic community drives microbial methane cycling in eutrophic coastal sediments

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Joep van Lit

  Defending democracy: investigating the efficacy of elite democratic defence in a competitive information environment

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Matthew Green

  A catalogue of ultracompact mass-transferring white dwarf binaries

• Douwe G. van der Meer

  Phanerozoic orbital-scale glacio-eustatic variability

  Utrecht University · NL

• Gregory Kehne

  Robust Committee Voting, or The Other Side of Representation

  Washington University in St. Louis · US

• Suqin Tang

  Ecological Validity of Grief Rumination Measures Among Bereaved People

  Shenzhen University · CN

• Maaike van der Vleuten

  Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents

  Stockholm University · SE

• Julia M. Haaf

  Attentional control data collection: A resource for efficient data reuse

  University of Potsdam · DE

• Maxim De Smet

  High-fidelity single-spin shuttling in silicon

  QuTech · NL

• Maria Bolsinova

  Keeping Elo alive: Evaluating and improving measurement properties of learning systems based on Elo ratings

  Tilburg University · NL

• Christophe Danelon

  MOSAIC: A Highly Efficient, One-Step Recombineering Approach to Plasmid Editing and Diversification

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Maurits J. Meijers

  Partisan cueing and preferences for fiscal integration in the European Union

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Georgios Amanatidis

  Online Fair Division for Personalized $2$-Value Instances

• Mandy Velthuis

  Light-Driven Changes in Macrophyte Tissue Quality Affect the Composition of Associated Microbial Communities

  Netherlands Institute of Ecology · NL

• G. Aad

  Search for displaced leptons in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math> and 13.6 TeV <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Aix-Marseille Université · FR

• G. Aad

  Search for displaced leptons in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi></mml:math> and 13.6 TeV <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> collisions with the ATLAS detector

  Aix-Marseille Université · FR

• Mariska E. Kret

  Putting the Social in Emotions: The Effect of Audience Presence on Pride and Embarrassment Across Ontogeny

  Leiden University · NL

• Christin Scholz

  The social life of health-promotion messages: Message effects in complex information environments

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• Zeshi Li

  Cell-surface RNA forms ternary complex with RNA-binding proteins and heparan sulfate to recruit immune receptors

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Jeanne E. Savage

  Trajectories of genetic risk across dimensions of alcohol use behaviors

  Amsterdam Neuroscience · NL

• Eelke Spaak

  Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Maxim van den Berg

  Computing moment polytopes -- with a focus on tensors, entanglement and matrix multiplication

• Ben A. Cala

  Solubility of high-magnesium calcite in seawater and its implementation in (Py)CO2SYS

  Utrecht University · NL

• olivia jullian parra

  Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for data quality monitoring in particle physics experiments

  University of Zurich · CH

• Amir Shakouri

  Chebyshev centers and radii for sets induced by quadratic matrix inequalities

  University of Groningen · NL

• Johan Vellekoop

  A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world

  Institute of Natural Sciences · BE

• Johan Vellekoop

  A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world

  Institute of Natural Sciences · BE

• Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar

  The role of triple evolution in the formation of LISA double white dwarfs

  Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics · DE

• Redwan Rahmat

  Immunohistochemical investigation of canine lymph nodes collected during a rabies outbreak in South Africa

• Georges Aad

  A continuous calibration of the ATLAS flavour-tagging classifiers via optimal transportation maps

  Aix-Marseille Université · FR

• Sara Bögels

  There is a power law of joint communicative effort and it reflects communicative work

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Anouk Schrantee

  Concurrent assessment of neurometabolism and brain hemodynamics to characterize the functional brain response to psychotropic drugs: An S-ketamine study

• Paolo Papale

  Modulatory feedback determines attentional object segmentation in a model of the ventral stream

  Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience · NL

• Matteo Damian

  Single-enzyme redox-neutral oxidation of alcohols to carboxylic acids using alcohol dehydrogenases

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Erin Faught

  Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor heterodimers mediate cortisol-induced behavioural changes via modulation of glutamatergic signalling

  Leiden University · NL

• Judith M. Schaart

  A workflow integrating organ-on-chip culture and correlative 3D light and electron microscopy for microtissue analysis

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Jiwei Wang

  Online experiment design for continuous-time systems using generalized filtering

• Mu‐Hyun Baik

  Protonation‐Induced Electron Density Redistribution Facilitates Aggregation in PNNP Dicopper Hydride Complexes

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KR