NWO Vidi 2026

Recipients

• Maria J. Rodríguez Colman

  NuclearIDTracker resolves intestinal cell identity and lineage dynamics through nuclear phenotypic signatures

  Heidelberg University · DE

• Benjamin T. Martin

  Automated quantification of ecological interactions from video

  Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics · NL

• Benjamin T. Martin

  Automated quantification of ecological interactions from video

  Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics · NL

• Thomas Hackl

  Curated high-quality genomes of 39 diverse halophilic archaea

  University of Groningen · NL

• Athina Vidaki

  ECHO: a nanopore sequencing-based workflow for (epi)genetic profiling of the human repeatome

  Maastricht University Medical Centre · NL

• Renée van Amerongen

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

  Oncode Institute · NL

• Erik Bekkers

  Flowing with Confidence

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Corine Gerritsen

  Remediations of Japanese Cinema and History in Ghost of Yōtei

  Leiden University · NL

• Virginia Pallante

  Why Citizens Intervene in Riots: Learning from the Case of Citizens Who de-Escalated Tensions During Covid-19 Curfew Protests in Amsterdam

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

• Marten A. Hoeksema

  Multi-level transcriptional control of specific macrophage responses

  Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NL

• Ivan Vartaniants

  Bridging scales: from classical colloidal crystals to mesocrystals with modern x-ray synchrotron methods

  Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY · DE

• Jeroen H. F. de Baaij

  <scp> <i>RRAGD</i> </scp> p.( <scp>Ser76Leu</scp> ) Variant Causes Dysregulated Expression of Muscle Development and Cytoskeleton Genes in Cardiomyocytes

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Nico J. Claassens

  The state of metabolic engineering in the versatile bacterial cell factory Cupriavidus necator H16

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Theo Araujo

  Unpacking the dynamics of generative AI use in our daily lives: towards an integrative trust calibration framework

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Anna Alemany

  What’s in a niche? Elucidating the role of the ECM in cell fate commitment

  Leiden University Medical Center · NL

• Sarah C. Elmendorf

  Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research

  Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research · US

• Beatrice Luciani

  Intuitive therapist robot patient physical interaction is worth a thousand words

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• the Cradle of Life working group

  Cradle of Life: From the Formation of Stars to Habitable Worlds with the SKAO

• Rik Verbiest

  Model-error estimation and model adaptivity for hyperbolic moment equations in one dimension

  University of Groningen · NL

• Marina Andrijevic

  Future trends of desalination and wastewater treatment accounting for risks of maladaptation

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis · AT

• Janna Cousijn

  The Cannabis Research Image Database (CRESIDA): A standardized and validated image set for studying cannabis cue reactivity

  IVO Addiction Research Institute · NL

• Niall Taggart

  Realification of stably trivial vector bundles

• Laura Marchal-Crespo

  Congruent Kinesthetic and Tactile Haptic Rendering Accelerates the Learning of Highly Dynamic Virtual Sensorimotor Tasks

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Thomas Swerts

  Collective memory and amnesia: explaining continuities and discontinuities in the history of the Belgian sans-papiers movement

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Yali Si

  To rest or to roam: Functional habitat use of an insectivorous bat species during active and resting behavior

  Leiden University · NL

• Magdalena Grzeszczyk

  Defect-Induced Single-Photon Emission in ZnPS ₃

  National University of Singapore · SG

• Roger J. A. Laeven

  Saddlepoint Approximations for Hawkes Jump-Diffusion Processes with an Application to Risk Management*

  Quantitative BioSciences · US

• Renee M. Pullen

  GRASPing experience-dependent protein expression signatures enriched for hippocampal engram cell synapses

  Amsterdam Neuroscience · NL

• Melanie Shaffer

  A ‘Proper’ Celebration: The Old Hispanic <i>Commune Sanctorum</i> and its Affordance for Individualised Liturgies

  University of Bristol · GB

• Nicholas Vrousalis

  Kant on Citizenship and Poverty

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Megha Khosla

  How does Graph Structure Modulate Membership-Inference Risk for Graph Neural Networks?

• R. Montoro Ferrer

  Breaking down ALD:Investigating pathomechanisms using hiPSC-derived CNS models

• Sònia Conesa-Boj

  Uncertainty-aware machine learning for core-loss background subtraction in EELS

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Elmar van der Wijk

  Phytoglobin 1 in plant hypoxia acclimation and development: integrating oxygen sensing, nitric oxide homeostasis, and redox balance

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Marc van de Wardt

  Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition and recruitment’

• Ana Vilotijević

  Pupil size reflects the content of covertly attended afterimages

  University of Groningen · NL

• Carolina Bolognani

  Extracting production fractions of $b$ hadrons from exclusive semi-leptonic decays

• Barend Spanjers

  Bootstrapping GARCH models under dependent innovations

  Tinbergen Institute · NL

• Emilie Wientjes

  Charge reversal at the Lhcb2 N-terminus impairs phosphorylation and PSI–LHCII complex formation

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Ronald A.M. Buijsen

  A Novel APP p.V742L variant in a patient with ischemic small vessel disease enhances FE65 signalling

  Leiden University Medical Center · NL

• Steven van den Broek

  Summarizing classed region maps with a disk choreme

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Piotr Kopszak

  Entanglement Recycling in Two-Step Port-Based Teleportation

  Institute of Theoretical Physics · CN

• Dennis Kenbeek

  Suspension cultivation of mosquito cell lines for the production of the mosquito-borne flavivirus Usutu virus in a stirred-tank bioreactor

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Elise M. J. Laetz

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

  University of Groningen · NL

• Rebecca Saive

  Synchronized modulation Kelvin probe force microscopy for surface photovoltage studies in optoelectronic systems

  University of Twente · NL

• Felix JH Hol

  Deep behavioral phenotyping of pathogen infected mosquitoes reveals species-specific behavior changes enhancing transmission

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• T.H. Hoekstra

  Electrically tunable strong coupling in a hybrid-2D excitonic metasurface for optical modulation

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Annemiek ter Heijne

  Anaerobic sulfide removal involves an intricate interplay between biomass, biosulfur, and solutes

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Y. in ’t Veld

  Enhancing plasmonic superconductivity in layered materials via dynamical Coulomb engineering

  Universität Hamburg · DE

• Shuxia Tao

  Dynamic Iodide Regeneration Enabled by Piperazine‐Tailored PCBM Interfaces for Photothermally Stable and Efficient Inverted Perovskite Photovoltaics

  Eindhoven University of Technology · NL

• Arnd Hartmanns

  The revised practitioner’s guide to MDP model checking algorithms

  University of Twente · NL

• Madleen Grohganz

  An Earth system deep learning classifier for tipping point detection

  Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research · NL

• Rene M. van der Zande

  Ocean acidification alters hypoxia sensitivity and oxyregulation in reef-building corals

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Syver Døving Agdestein

  A differentiable software suite for accelerated simulation of turbulent flows

• V. Radovskaia

  Photoengineering the magnon spectrum in an insulating antiferromagnet

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Wilco C. E. P. Verberk

  Heat Tolerance and Its Plasticity in Freshwater and Marine Fishes Reflect Exposure to Extremes and Seasonal Variation in Habitat Temperatures

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Laura van Niftrik

  The molecular mechanism and activity of <i>Kuenenia stuttgartiensis</i> hydrazine synthase

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Frank F. J. de Kleijne

  Detecting glycosyl-oxonium and glycosyl-nitrilium ions using exchange NMR to investigate solvent effects in glycosylation reactions

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Hélène Spring

  Isotropic 3D topological phases with broken time reversal symmetry

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Pegah Faghiri

  Optional subject indexing in spontaneous speech in Modern Persian

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

• Mingrong She

  Academic collaborations and movements towards successful careers in physics

• Eddie Brummelman

  We need to understand economic inequality from children’s perspectives

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences · NL

• Yiyuan Chen

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

  University of Amsterdam · NL

• Olivier Witteveen

  Optimizing information transmission in optogenetic Wnt signaling

  Delft University of Technology · NL

• Nienke Bosschaart

  Refractive index of milk fat globules and extracellular vesicles in human milk

  University of Twente · NL

• Giuseppe Clemente

  Yang-Mills topology on four-dimensional triangulations

  University of Pisa · IT

• Henrik Terholsen

  Nitroreductase-triggered indazole formation

  University of Groningen · NL

• M. A. Schanner

  Bayesian Inference of Local Paleosecular Variation From Sparse Paleomagnetic Data

  GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences · DE

• Willem H. van de Poll

  Iron and nitrogen stress controls summertime biogeochemistry in the high‐latitude North Atlantic

  University of Groningen · NL

• Willem H. van de Poll

  Iron and nitrogen stress controls summertime biogeochemistry in the high‐latitude North Atlantic

  University of Groningen · NL

• Sanne van Oosten

  Affinity voting in Europe: the impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians

  University of Oxford · GB

• Jannis Kurtz

  Globalized Adversarial Regret Optimization: Robust Decisions with Uncalibrated Predictions

• Valentin Mauerhofer

  The SPHINX public data release

  University of Groningen · NL

• Valentin Mauerhofer

  The SPHINX public data release

  University of Groningen · NL

• Valentin Mauerhofer

  The SPHINX public data release

  University of Groningen · NL

• Jamie Reilly

  Closing editorial for the special issue of cortex: Neurocognitive perspectives on discourse and connected language

  Temple University · US

• Samira Azabar

  <i>It’s Haram, but Who Am I to Judge?</i> Exploring and Unpacking Muslims’ Religious Perspectives Toward Homosexuality

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Sonia Chothani

  An expanded reference catalog of translated open reading frames for biomedical research

  Agency for Science, Technology and Research · SG

• Ilaria Micella

  Uneven distribution of multi-pollutant hotspots worldwide: river exports to seas and their global change drivers in the future

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Martijn Wissink

  Mini-bacterioferritins: structural insight into a ferritin-like protein from the anaerobic methane-oxidising archaeon Candidatus Methanoperedens carboxydivorans

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Kristina A. Ganzinger

  Bilayer acoustic force spectroscopy (BAFS) for quantifying receptor-antigen binding strength in immune synapses

  Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics · NL

• Antony van der Ent

  X‐ray Fluorescence Microscopy Computed Tomography Reveals Internal Distribution of Selenium in Hyperaccumulator Plant Seeds

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Christian Ferko

  Topological Effects in Neural Network Field Theory

• Britta U. Westner

  Shared and distinct oscillatory fingerprints underlying episodic memory and word retrieval

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Tom Hoekstra

  Hybrid-2D Excitonic Metasurfaces for Complex Amplitude Modulation

• Daniel J.W. Touw

  Clusterpath Gaussian Graphical Modeling

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Daniel J.W. Touw

  Clusterpath Gaussian Graphical Modeling

  Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

• Rixt Bosma

  Ferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling in a few layers of CrSBr on a gold thin film

• Vânia de Aguiar

  Analysis of Presurgical Language in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumours Relative to Postoperative Speech Outcomes: Findings from the European CMS Study

  University Medical Center Groningen · NL