A recent article by researchers at the Flow Chemistry research group led by Prof. Timothy Noël has been highlighted as a Hot Paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie. It provides a prime example of how simple kinetic ...

PhD candidate Eline Kempkes and her supervisor Dr Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz at the Computational Chemistry group of the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed an automated framework for ...

In a paper in the RSC journal Chemical Communications, Analytical Scientists at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a meta-analysis of hundreds of LC-MS methods and thousands of compound ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food, and even in our bodies. The very smallest particles, in particular, are difficult to measure, meaning we still know too little about ...

In a paper just out in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences describe a method for the late-stage ...

In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a photo-flow strategy to convert readily available, simple alcohol feedstocks ...

In a ‘hot paper’ just published by Angewandte Chemie, an international research team reports the synthesis of graphene nanostructures via π-radical reaction cascades. The paper demonstrates the potential of ...

Researchers led by Prof. Chris Slootweg at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have uncovered an unexpected radical pathway in imidazolium salts. In a paper published in Angewandte Chemie International ...

In a paper in Physical Review Letters, computational chemists Rik Breebaart and Peter Bolhuis at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a successful computational strategy ...

In a paper in the Journal Macromolecules, researchers at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) led by associate professor Andrea Gargano present a ‘polymer sequencing’ approach for analysing the ...

Professors Wim Noorduin and Arian van Asten (Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences) have been nominated for the Huibregtsen Prize 2026. This prize recognises scientists who combine scientific excellence and ...

NWO has awarded grants to 56 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-XS. Four of these projects are led by researchers from the UvA Faculty of Science: Bettina Baumgartner, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, ...

InSpectT, a spin-off company from the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam, has been awarded a ‘Take-off phase 2’ loan of €450,000 by the Dutch Research Council NWO. ...

Assistant professor Ioana Ilie of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences is the first recipient of the NextGenChem award issued by the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society KNCV. It honours her commitment to ...

Researchers Pankaj Verma and Shiju Raveendran of the Catalysis Engineering group at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have received €100,000 funding for their idea to turn waste human hair into a ...

All life on Earth is based on carbon. But how did carbon material evolve in space and end up on our planet? In a research project of the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists use machine learning to detect a key class of ...

To Bernd Ensing, Professor of ‘AI for Chemistry’ at the University of Amsterdam's Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Artificial Intelligence will completely transform the way chemical research is ...

NWO has awarded grants to 16 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-M. Three UvA Faculty of Science researchers have received the grant: Ronald Bruijn, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, and Carlos Fitzsimons. ...

Dr Tati Fernández Ibáñez of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry group at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science M grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). ...

The “2026 Prous Institute - Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery” has been awarded to Prof. Timothy Noël, Professor of Flow Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute ...