The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold2 and to David Baker for his work on protein design
Assistant professor Ina Vollmer received an ERC Starting Grant for her plastic recycling research. The main goal of the five-year project is to gain fundamental insight into the innovative process of breaking down plastics to its chemical building blocks, the monomers, by using force.
The consortium’s research aims to result in a prototypical quantum computer which will overcome the conventional boundaries of standard information and computation technologies. Zeila Zanolli, associate professor at Utrecht University, is one of the principal investigators.
