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"I hope people from other fields will increasingly come to me to chat about what role randomness plays in their discipline", says Wioletta Ruszel.

“It’s an honour,” says Crainic. “Also because this is the first time that the prize is awarded.”

During his valedictory lecture, Moerdijk offered a glimpse into the mathematics that has occupied him over the past decades. In recent years, his work has focused on topology, an abstract branch of geometry concerned with understanding and characterising shapes and structures.

Project leader and assistant professor Vincent Jonker: “Doing it yourself is key. After all, you gain the most insight when you discover something yourself.”

These grants allow researchers to develop new methods and further deepen their research.

PhD candidate Marieke Gelderblom developed a public engagement activity about 19th century graphs for the University Museum Utrecht.