Recently Paul Kuijer passed away. Paul was a senior experimental physicist at Nikhef who had an important role in the ALICE experiment at CERN and has worked as an assistant professor at Utrecht University in the 80's and 90's.
21 research consortia get the chance to make a breakthrough thanks to funding from the Open Competition ENW-XL. Utrecht scientists are involved in 11 of the research consortia.
Chris Van Den Broeck has been appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics. He succeeds Raimond Snellings, who served as Scientific Director of the institute since September 2019.