NWO Vidi 2025

Recipients

• Rui Dong

  The persistent Laplacian of non-branching complexes

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Bart Mennink

  Generic Security of the Ascon Mode: On the Power of Key Blinding

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Maria J. Rodríguez Colman

  Lactate controls cancer stemness and plasticity through epigenetic regulation

  Heidelberg University · DE

• Rick L. van Well

  To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation

  Leiden University · NL

• Laure Flapan

  Kodaira dimension of moduli spaces of hyperkähler varieties

• Rosa Kindt

  How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• J.G. Brouwer

  Language Learning as a Non-Pharmacological Intervention in Older Adults with (Past) Depression

  University Medical Center Groningen · NL

• Bertram Daum

  Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail

  University of Exeter · GB

• Frank J. van Lenthe

  The role of financial scarcity in the relationship between income and health behaviors: a causal mediation analysis

  Erasmus MC · NL

• Patrícia Beldade

  Wound-induced eyespots on butterfly wings at the intersection of immune response and pigmentation development

  Sustainability Institute · ZA

• Brian D. Corneil

  Startling acoustic stimuli hasten reflexive choice reaching tasks by enhancing, but not changing the timing of, express visuomotor responses

  Western University · CA

• Renée van Amerongen

  Mechanistic dissection of GRHL2 and PR transcriptional co-regulation in breast cells

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Guus Regts

  Near optimal bounds for weak and strong spatial mixing for the anti-ferromagnetic Potts model on trees

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Daniela J. Kraft

  Fabrication and Characterization of Bimetallic Silica-Based and 3D-Printed Active Colloidal Cubes

  Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands · NL

• Mike Walmsley

  Classifying merger stages with adaptive deep learning and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

• Jarno Drost

  Organoids in pediatric cancer research

  Princess Máxima Center · NL

• Matthew A. Kenworthy

  Adding colour to the Zernike wavefront sensor: Advantages of including multi-wavelength measurements for wavefront reconstruction

• Andrew Yates

  Reproducibility, Replicability, and Insights into Visual Document Retrieval with Late Interaction

  Johns Hopkins University · US

• Marie‐Isabel Theuwis

  Taking democracy's temperature: The (in)stability and covariates of populist attitudes

  Université Libre de Bruxelles · BE

• Darci Rush

  Occurrence of nucleoside-bacteriohopanepolyol in high latitude soils: evidence of environmental controls on bacterial lipid membrane distributions

  Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research · NL

• Anastasia V. Sergeeva

  Robots en nuestra niebla: Una etnógrafa en el nuevo mundo laboral

• Koen van Zon

  Confronting Europe’s toxics trade from below: the contested global legacy of the 1976 Seveso disaster

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Martin Lüdtke

  Refined Chabauty–Kim computations for the thrice-punctured line over $$\mathbb {Z}[1/6]$$

  University of Groningen · NL

• Elly Morriën

  Fungal-mediated soil aggregation as a mechanism for carbon stabilization

  Institute for Biodiversity · DE

• Daan A. Weits

  Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis

  Institute of Plant Biology · HU

• Daan A. Weits

  Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis

  Institute of Plant Biology · HU

• Marcelle L. Johnson

  Living Together Apart: Quantitative Perspectives on the Costs and Benefits of a Multipartite Genome Organization in Viruses

  Netherlands Institute of Ecology · NL

• J.G. Brouwer

  Language Learning as a Non-Pharmacological Intervention in Older Adults with (Past) Depression

  University Medical Center Groningen · NL

• A. Femius Koenderink

  Structure-in-Void Quasi-Bound State in the Continuum Metasurface for Deeply Subwavelength Nanostructure Metrology

  Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics · NL

• Yao Du

  Metamaterial that learns shape changes by using contrastive learning – METAMATERIALS 2025

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Yao Du

  Metamaterial that learns shape changes by using contrastive learning – METAMATERIALS 2025

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Belén Franco‐Cisterna

  Carbon sedimentation in shallow floodplain lakes

  Netherlands Institute of Ecology · NL

• Maria Morbey

  The role of temperature, deuterium pressure and residual gases in deuterium retention and outgassing of lithium deuterium co-deposits

  Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research · NL

• Wouter Van Gompel

  Molecular Engineering of Interlayer Exciton Delocalization in 2D Perovskites

  Hasselt University · BE

• Lorenzo Olivi

  The Escherichia coli replication initiator DnaA is titrated on the chromosome

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• D. J. Hughes

  Is there anybody out there? Ultrafast Rydberg–valence interactions in the photodissociation of trimethylamine

  University of Southampton · GB

• Peter A. Korevaar

  Surfactant Assemblies Directing Chemical Transfer Cascades in Convective Marangoni Flow Pumps

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Dante Hoek

  The situational character of prison violence: An exploratory qualitative study

  Leiden University · NL

• Alodie Rey-Mermet

  How can we achieve a good measurement of attentional control?

• Camille Le Gal

  Association Between Parental Social Position and Childhood Overweight: Mediation by Lifestyle and <scp>BMI</scp> Patterns During Pregnancy

  Université Paris Cité · FR

• Bennet Buhmann

  Initial shoot regeneration in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis and in vitro test system for selenium tolerance and accumulation

  Leibniz University Hannover · DE

• Gisela M. Terwindt

  Pain Coping in Patients With Chronic Migraine and Medication Overuse Headache

  Leiden University Medical Center · NL

• G. A. Iandolo

  Mechanical characterization of silicon for the ETpathfinder test masses

  Maastricht University · NL

• Carlos Duaso Pueyo

  On the asymptotic nature of cosmological effective theories

• Kumar Saurabh Singh

  MEANtools integrates multi-omics data to identify metabolites and predict biosynthetic pathways

  Utrecht University · NL

• Adriana Ressiore C.

  Caring policy-relevant knowledge? The case of the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Robbert Biesbroek

  Navigating the politics of transformational adaptation in international climate negotiations

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Julia Folz

  The role of the body in altered facial emotion perception in autism and social anxiety

  Leiden University · NL

• Harro J. Bouwmeester

  The chemical interaction between plants and the rhizosphere microbiome

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• Harry Johnston

  6 × 2 pt: Forecasting gains from joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses with spectroscopic-photometric galaxy cross-correlations

  Utrecht University · NL

• Anique B. H. de Bruin

  Cognitive Load and Challenges in Self-regulation: An Introduction and Reflection on the Topical Collection

  Department of Education · ES

• Aida Abiad

  Eigenvalue bounds for distance-edge colorings

• Marta Mel&#x00E9

  Single-cell atlas of the human immune system reveals sex-specific dynamics of immunosenescence

  Barcelona Supercomputing Center · ES

• Jacco van Sterkenburg

  Race in televised football: insights from behind-the-scenes within major English football media organizations

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Merlin Nieterau

  Daily Parental Responses To Disruptive Child Behavior: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• M. N. Mooij

  Finding large independent sets in networks using competitive dynamics

  Utrecht University · NL

• Joeran S. Bosma

  The DRAGON benchmark for clinical NLP

• Rosa Kindt

  Does it Matter if You’re Left or Right? Studying Left- and Right-Wing Populist Citizens’ Support for Deliberative Mini-Publics

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Siemon C. de Lange

  Multimodal brain imaging of insomnia, depression and anxiety symptoms indicates transdiagnostic commonalities and differences

  Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience · NL

• Clement J. F. Delcourt

  Carbon Emissions From Fires in Eastern Siberian Larch Forests

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Jakob Kasper

  Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Julian P. Merkofer

  Physics-Informed Sylvester Normalizing Flows for Bayesian Inference in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• Ceci Verbaarschot

  Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex

  University of Pittsburgh · US

• Jakob Prömer

  MuSK is a substrate for CaMK2β but this interaction is dispensable for MuSK activation in vivo

  Medical University of Vienna · AT

• Andres Felipe Perez Alonso

  Mixture Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling for Ordinal Data

• Lucy Verberk

  A note on the core of 2-matching games

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Manuel D. Menzel

  Controls of focused fluid release in subduction zones: insights from experimental dehydration of brucite vein networks in serpentinite

  Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra · ES

• Loes Janssen

  A harsher reality for adolescents with depression on social media

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• Yulan B. van Oppen

  Gradient matching accelerates mixed-effects inference for biochemical networks

  Biotechnology Institute · US

• Marloes Blotenburg

  Stem cell culture conditions affect in vitro differentiation potential and mouse gastruloid formation

  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · NL

• Michele Laureni

  Biological methane removal by groundwater trickling biofiltration for emissions reduction

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Martijn Caspers

  On the best constants of Schur multipliers of second order divided difference functions

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Luisa Raimondo

  Does the Cortical-Depth Dependence of the Hemodynamic Response Function Differ Between Age Groups?

  Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging · NL

• Luisa Raimondo

  Does the Cortical-Depth Dependence of the Hemodynamic Response Function Differ Between Age Groups?

  Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging · NL

• M. Volonteri

  Exploring active galactic nuclei and little red dots with the Obelisk simulation

• Jaël S. Copier

  HCN4 in the atrioventricular node

  Amsterdam Neuroscience · NL

• Md. Sumon Hossain

  Model Reduction for Switched Differential-Algebraic Equations with Known Switching Signal

  North South University · BD

• Cameron L. C. Smith

  Drug resistance–associated mutations in Plasmodium UBP-1 disrupt its essential deubiquitinating activity

  University of Cambridge · GB

• Jennifer S. Trueblood

  The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform

  Indiana University Bloomington · US

• Marleen Kok

  Triple-negative breast cancer modifies the systemic immune landscape and alters neutrophil functionality

  The Netherlands Cancer Institute · NL

• Karen Rienks

  Supporting parents to reduce children's anxiety: A meta-analysis of interventions and their theoretical components

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Jim de Ruiter

  Multiscale X-ray scattering elucidates activation and deactivation of oxide-derived copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction

  Utrecht University · NL

• Joost M. Bakker

  Gas-phase, conformer-specific infrared spectra of 3-chlorophenol and 3-fluorophenol

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Stefan Kubik

  Light and protonation-controlled complex formation between sulfate ions and a stiff-stilbene based bis(cyclopeptide)

• Shirin Faraji

  Computational design of an improved photoswitchable psychedelic based on light absorption, membrane permeation and protein binding

  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

• J.C. Veenstra

  Animating metamaterials with non-reciprocity

• Vanessa Teckentrup

  Assessing a Stimulator Modification for Simultaneous Noninvasive Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation and MRI

  Trinity College Dublin · IE

• Saskia C.A. de Jager

  Structural polymorphism of α-synuclein fibrils alters the pathway of Hsc70-mediated disaggregation

  Heidelberg University · DE

• Elizabeth E.L. Buimer

  Social and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience in Young People: The Longitudinal THRIVE-study

• Dovilė Rimkutė

  Emotions and Reputation Learning by Audience Networks: A Research Agenda in Bureaucratic Politics

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

• Olga Ceran

  The Democratic Justification of Academic Freedom in EU Law: Article 13 of the EU Charter, the Rule of Law Toolbox, and the Scope for EU Action

  Leiden University · NL

• H.W.K. Berghuis

  The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland

  Leiden University · NL

• Hannah Soiné

  Diverging Ethnic Hierarchies? Cultural Distance, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Social Distance Perceptions in the Netherlands

  University of Mannheim · DE

• Shai Slomka

  Variable responses to ocean acidification among mixotrophic protists with different lifestyles

  Institute for Biodiversity · DE

• Jingmeng Cui

  Understanding types of transitions in clinical change: An introduction from the complex dynamic systems perspective.

  University of Groningen · NL

• Lumen Eek

  Electric-Field Control of Zero-Dimensional Topological States in Ultranarrow Germanene Nanoribbons

  Utrecht University · NL

• Linsey J. F. Peters

  <i>MicroRNA-26b−/−</i> augments atherosclerosis, while mimic-loaded nanoparticles reduce atherogenesis

  Institute for Sports Medicine · DE

• De Bie, Eckart

  Inflammation and Obesity Correlate in Pulmonary Hypertension but Associate with Diverging Outcomes.

• Olga O. Sokolova

  Ruthenium Bis-Sulfonate Complexes: Synthesis and Application in Asymmetric Hydrogenation

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Martin Vinck

  Representational drift shows same-class acceleration in visual cortex and artificial neural networks

  Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod · FR

• David Matthias Ekkers

  Migration load, competition, and metabolic trade-offs shape spatial divergence through eco-evolutionary dynamics

  University of Groningen · NL

• David C. Konijn

  Occurrence rate of stellar Type II radio bursts from a 100 star-year search for coronal mass ejections

  University of Groningen · NL

• Vanessa Teckentrup

  Assessing a Stimulator Modification for Simultaneous Noninvasive Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation and MRI

  Trinity College Dublin · IE

• Nicola Findlay

  Soil and Plant Nutrients Are Maintained—and Can Be Enhanced—by Long‐Term Frequent Fire in an Afromontane Grassland

  Utrecht University · NL

• Francisco Gonçalves

  Gravity Water Waves over Constant Vorticity Flows: From Laminar Flows to Touching Waves

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Ignacio Fernando Hall

  Endothelial to mesenchymal transition in cardiovascular diseases: molecular insights and clinical perspectives

  The Queen's Medical Research Institute · GB

• Nathan J. Marchant

  Dual Role of LH-GABA Neurons in Encoding Alcohol Reward and Aversive Memories

  Amsterdam Neuroscience · NL

• Florian T. Muijres

  Diptera flight diversity is shaped by aerodynamic constraints, scaling, and evolutionary trade-offs

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Vera I. D. Ros

  Iflaviruses in arthropods: when small is mighty

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Bas van Heumen

  A test of Ca II H &amp; K photometry for isolating massive globular clusters below the metallicity floor

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Scarlett K. Slagter

  The Social Sources Adolescents Consult for Daily Life Choices: Variations in Age and Decision Domains

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Antoine Castagnède

  Freezing line of polydisperse hard spheres via direct-coexistence simulations

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Chaidir Arsyan Adlan

  Emissions Footprints of Agriculture Around the World 1970–2020: Decreasing Land Conversion, Regional Exceptions and Increasing Management Intensity

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Xufeng Xu

  Amino acids bind to phase-separating proteins and modulate biomolecular condensate stability and dynamics

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Pien E. J. Jellema

  Evaluation of tractography parameters for dentato-rubro-thalamic tract reconstruction during pediatric posterior fossa tumor surgery

  University Medical Center Utrecht · NL

• Camille Le Roy

  Adaptations in wing morphology rather than wingbeat kinematics enable flight in small hoverfly species

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Hannelies de Jonge

  How to synthesize randomized controlled trial data with meta-analytic structural equation modeling: A comparison of various d-to-rpb conversions.

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Manda Magdalena Marić

  EXO1 as a therapeutic target for Fanconi Anaemia, ZRSR2 and BRCA1-A complex deficient cancers

  The Francis Crick Institute · GB

• Alberto G. Curto

  Photonics in Flatland: challenges and opportunities for nanophotonics with 2D semiconductors

  Ghent University · BE

• Marianne Bauer

  Ambiguous signals and efficient codes

• Lemeng Dong

  A Solanoeclepin A precursor functions as a new rhizosphere signaling molecule recruiting growth-promoting microbes under nitrogen deficiency

  Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience · NL

• David B. Konrad

  A Highly Reactive Cysteine-Targeted Acrylophenone Chemical Probe That Enables Peptide/Protein Bioconjugation and Chemoproteomics Analysis

  University of Vienna · AT

• Bibi L. J. Bouwen

  Aberrant neural activity in the peritumoral cortex underlies the progression of tumor-associated seizures

  Erasmus MC · NL

• Houssam El Mrabet Haje

  Anomalous Refractive Index Modulation and Giant Birefringence in 2D Ferrielectric CuInP ₂ S ₆

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Maik Larooij

  Validation is the central challenge for generative social simulation: a critical review of LLMs in agent-based modeling

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Weizhe Zhang

  Sulfophenylated centimeter-sized graphene membrane in a direct methanol fuel cell

  Leiden University · NL

• Elwira Smakowska‐Luzan

  Genetic diversity, predictive protein structures, and interaction networks of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinases in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• François Dupressoir

  How Hard can it be to Formalize a Proof?

  University of Bristol · GB

• S. N. van den Hoven

  Multiphoton interference outperforms pairwise overlaps for distinguishability characterization

• Michelle G. Jansen

  Multiple brain activation patterns underlying successful visual short-term memory across the adult lifespan

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Le Ke

  Carbonate electrolytes manipulate lattice oxygen dynamics of oxyhydroxides toward efficient and durable water oxidation

  Wuhan University · CN

• A. Parkosidis

  Rethinking mass transfer: A unified semianalytical framework for circular and eccentric binaries

  Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · SK

• Emilie A. Didaskalou

  Unlocking Demography: Developing an e <scp>DNA</scp> ‐Based Toolkit to Measure Sex Ratios From Populations

  Leiden University · NL