NWO Veni 2026

Recipients

• Olfa D’Angelo

  An Open Database of Lunar Regolith and Simulants Properties

  Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées · FR

• Isabelle van der Vegt

  Evaluating Concerning Behavior of Fixated Individuals

  Utrecht University · NL

• Alexandra K. Emmendorfer

  Repeated listening induces exposure-specific cortical tracking of intelligible continuous speech

  Maastricht University · NL

• Andrea Leiter

  To take back value: critique as protocol design

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• Rodrigo Vallejo

  Beyond Decarbonisation: Two Challenges for the Twin Energy Transition?

  TIAS School for Business and Society · NL

• Carla Groenland

  Trade-off between spread and width for tree decompositions

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Dorien de Vries

  Dental topography and diet in marsupials and comparisons with primates

  University of Southern California · US

• Melanie Fink

  The constitutional foundation of explanation rights in EU digital regulation: An integrated approach

  Europdonor Foundation · NL

• Asier Moneva

  The topology of cyberspace and cybercrime journeys: a framework for analyzing online offender mobility

  Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement · NL

• Liedewij Laan

  Sortase A-Mediated Farnesylation of Cdc42 In Vitro

  Veroscience (United States) · US

• Marius V Peelen

  Dynamic context–based updating of object representations in the visual cortex

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Marloes Oomen

  Polar questions in Dutch Sign Language (NGT): A production experiment

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• L. I. M. Lenferink

  Sleepless Longing: Bidirectional Associations Between Sleep Quality and Prolonged Grief in Daily Life After Traumatic Loss

  University of Twente · NL

• Sanne N.E. van Haaren

  The efficacy of antidepressant medication versus interpersonal psychotherapy for depression in middle-aged women: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

  Pro Persona · NL

• Christian Büll

  Biosynthesis of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in glycoengineered human cells

  University of Copenhagen · DK

• Cees Dekker

  Terminal Conjugation Enables Nanopore Sequencing of Peptides

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Jasmijn A. Baaijens

  ReSeT: a taxonomy-aware reference genome selection tool

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Joanne Kuai

  Generative AI governance: from regulatory design to institutional reordering

  MIT University · MK

• Paolo D’Imporzano

  In-situ laser ablation MC-ICP-MS of lead white in paintings

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Selin Dilli

  Where have all the business women gone? Women and business in the 20th century

  Utrecht University · NL

• Sam; id_orcid 0000-0001-8347-3695 Hind

  Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation

  University of Manchester · GB

• Irene J. E. Teulings

  Beyond the borders of wellbeing: network analyses reveal the fuzzy boundaries between wellbeing domains

  University of Oslo · NO

• Frances Forrest

  Early evidence for a stable and flexible foraging niche in the evolution of <i>Homo</i>

  Fairfield University · US

• Aida Abiad

  Hypergraphs and simplicial complexes in focus: a roadmap for future research in higher-order interactions

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Keling Wang

  Causal language jumps and non-alignments between clinical practice guidelines and original studies: a systematic evaluation of diabetes guidelines and their cited evidence

  Erasmus MC · NL

• Mona M. Klau

  From night-to-night and from person-to-person: dynamic phenomena of insomnia

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Lisa Loheide-Niesmann

  Maternal childhood maltreatment and children's psychopathology across childhood: Exploring the role of maternal early caregiving quality in a low-risk sample

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• A. Müller

  The Low-mass Dwarf Host Galaxy of Nonrepeating FRB 20230708A

  Maria Mitchell Association · US

• Tomonari Matsuo

  Multidimensional Recovery of Young Secondary Forests in Human‐Modified Tropical Landscapes

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Stefano Bosco

  Exchange-only spin-orbit qubits in silicon and germanium

  Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute · US

• Virginie Stévenin

  <i>Salmonella</i> exploits USP32 to coordinate Rab14 and Rab11 recycling pathways for intracellular survival

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• F. Andres Rivera-Quiroz

  PTA contrast enhancement and specimen preparation for micro-CT scanning of spiders and other small arthropods v1

  Naturalis Biodiversity Center · NL

• Diogo Vieira Saraiva

  Tuning cholesteric cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly in spherical confinement via salt and sonication

• Elise M. J. Laetz

  Does heat tolerance vary with rates of oxygen production in photosymbiotic cnidarians?

  University of Groningen · NL

• Lu Zhou

  Review article: Weddell Sea Polynya formation, cessation and climatic impacts

  Utrecht University · NL

• Thomas Freese

  Science to be proud of – A Global Policy Roadmap for Sustainable Science

  University of Groningen · NL

• Mariana Braz Pires

  Freshwater Conservation Priority Areas Are Threatened by Global Mining Activities

  Leiden University · NL

• Twan Kroll

  Error correction with brickwork Clifford circuits

• Laura F. Bringmann

  Experience sampling methods require more than numbers

  University of Groningen · NL

• Laura F. Bringmann

  Experience sampling methods require more than numbers

  University of Groningen · NL

• Maria Hagan

  Tearing the Land From Underfoot: Environmental Racism at the Northern French Border

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Mariana Braz Pires

  Freshwater Conservation Priority Areas Are Threatened by Global Mining Activities

  Leiden University · NL

• Giacomo Bignardi

  Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music

  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics · NL

• Giacomo Bignardi

  Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music

  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics · NL

• Francesca Talamini

  Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians

  Universität Innsbruck · AT

• Daniel Y. Knapp

  State-selected preparation of molecular ions for precision measurements in radio-frequency traps

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Yiyuan Chen

  Trotter error and gate complexity of the SYK and sparse SYK models

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Hemant K. Sharma

  Minimising the number of edges in LC-equivalent graph states

  Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica · NL

• Sharada Navada

  Contrasting effects of osmolytes on nitrifying biofilms under salinity stress

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

• Katharina Seeger

  Elevation uncertainties in the Mekong Delta quantified using a transferable approach

  University of Padua · IT

• Martijn Diender

  Carboxydotrophic Acetogenesis in Alkaline Conditions Results in Transient Formate Production by the Halo‐Alkaliphilic Acetogen <i>Haloacetibacter carboxydivorans</i> Gen. Nov. sp. Nov

  University of the Arts Utrecht · NL

• Josephine Evans

  On a class of nonlinear BGK-type kinetic equations with density dependent collision rates

• Jacqueline Wong

  Student engagement profiles in a mobile app: Links to self-regulated learning and performance

  University of Applied Sciences Utrecht · NL

• Fabian Jörg Fischer

  Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Fabian Jörg Fischer

  Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Xiaomin Liu

  Host genetic control of the oral microbiome and its links to human metabolism and immunity

  BGI Group (China) · CN

• A.E. Coyne

  Are some therapists more effective when they deliver one type of therapy versus another?

• Kaiting Liu

  Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding

  Leiden University · NL

• Serge Fehr

  The Fiat—Shamir Transformation of $$(\varGamma _1,\dots ,\varGamma _\mu )$$-Special-Sound Interactive Proofs

  Leiden University · NL

• Christoph Strauch

  Snip  &amp; Stitch: a simple and accessible correction for the pupil foreshortening error

  Utrecht University · NL

• Eloïc Vallée

  Sector length distributions of recursively definable graph states through analytic combinatorics

• J. Li

  ALESS--JWST: Dust-driven Morphologies and Hidden Stellar Mass in $z\sim3$ Sub-millimeter Galaxies

• Avishai Gilkis

  Hot blue progenitors of stellar-mass black holes

• Kathleen Gregory

  Sustaining Knowledge Infrastructures: Asking Questions and Listening for Answers

  African Studies Centre · NL

• Claudia N. Spaan

  Reduced levels of mitochondrial ribosomal protein MRPL54 does not alter Apc related adenoma formation

  Cancer Center Amsterdam · NL

• Claudia N. Spaan

  Reduced levels of mitochondrial ribosomal protein MRPL54 does not alter Apc related adenoma formation

  Cancer Center Amsterdam · NL

• Lucas Visscher

  qsGW quasiparticle and GW-BSE excitation energies of 133,885 molecules

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Björn Grabbet

  A 3-Fluoropyridine-Substituted Grubbs III Catalyst as a 19F NMR Probe for Chain Chelation in ROMP

  Utrecht University · NL

• Dominik Starý

  Scalarful double beta decay

  Charles University · CZ

• Robin Klomp

  Potential for Manganese Oxide Driven Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in Sediments of a Seasonally Euxinic Coastal Basin

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Yoshiki Narimatsu

  Discovery of a secreted <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> mucinase that cleaves mucins with bis-T O-glycans through a carbohydrate binding module-dependent mechanism

  University of Copenhagen · DK

• Paul M. J. Berghuis

  A connectivity threshold between grass patches amplifies coastal dune formation

  Utrecht University · NL

• Tessa F. Blanken

  The impact of educational videos on children’s plastic consumption: a field study on attitudes, intentions, and behavior in a science museum setting

  Hologic (Germany) · DE

• Philip J. Ward

  Invited Perspectives: Science for Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management

  Deltares · NL

• Kathy Steppe

  Investigating phloem transport dynamics in Arabidopsis through compartmental modelling of positron emission tomography data

  Ghent University · BE

• Nihar Gupte

  Eccentricity constraints disfavor single-single capture in nuclear star clusters as the origin of all LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA binary black holes

• Ina Möller

  Why we need to explore conflict and competition around solar geoengineering

• Daniel Scharfenberg

  Temporal dynamics of cognitive functioning in people with Parkinson’s disease

  University Hospital Cologne · DE

• Francesca Rizzo

  The assembly and fate of a giant disc galaxy in a protocluster at $z = 3$

• Francesca Rizzo

  The assembly and fate of a giant disc galaxy in a protocluster at $z = 3$

• Francesca Rizzo

  The assembly and fate of a giant disc galaxy in a protocluster at $z = 3$

• Thomas C. Abbott

  Radio Monitoring Campaign of Active Repeater FRB 20220912A with CHIME

• Thomas C. Abbott

  Radio Monitoring Campaign of Active Repeater FRB 20220912A with CHIME