Projects and Awards

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  (New) Stephanie Wehner wins Körber European Science Prize

  ILLC alumna Stephanie Wehner (PhD 2008, supervised by Harry Buhrman) will receive the Körber European Science Prize on 19 September 2025 in a prize ceremony hosted at the Hamburg City Hall. Wehner is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in quantum information at Delft University of Technology, the director of the European Quantum Internet Alliance, and member of the KNAW. The Körber Prize with a award of € 1,000,000 is given annually (since 1984) to a distinguished scientist conducting research in Europe, promoting pioneering scientific work with strong future potential.

  For more information, see https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/koerber-european-science-prize/ or contact Körber-Stiftung at koerberprize at koerber-stiftung.de.
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  Alexandru Baltag is awarded the Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations 2025

  The Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations is an international research prize launched on the occasion of Professor Dov Gabbay's 77th birthday. This initiative honours the extraordinary and multi-faceted scientific and editorial work of Dov Gabbay, known in particular for editing an extensive collection of specialized Logic Handbooks, and a life dedicated to Logic.

  We are very happy to announce that the Jury of the Dov Gabbay Prize and the Initiative for Logic and Foundations have announced the winner of the 2025 edition of this Prize, whose focus was Philosophical Logic to be Alexandru Baltag.

  For more information, see https://iloaf.org/dgp2025.html or contact ILLC at illc at uva.nl.
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  Mina Young Pedersen is awarded the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS) Dissertation Awards 2024

  We are pleased to announce that Mina Young Pedersen has has been awarded the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS) Dissertation Awards 2024 for her thesis entitled Malicious Agents and the Power of Few: On the Logic of Abnormality in Social Networks.

  For more information, see https://www.aisociety.no/?p=544 or contact Mina Young Pedersen at m.y.pedersen at uva.nl.
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  Luca Incurvati receives an ERC Advanced Grant

  We are pleased to announce that Luca Incurvati has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant entitled New Foundations for Intensionality. The ERC Advanced Grants - totalling €721 million - will support 281 leading researchers across Europe. The funding will give senior researchers the opportunity to pursue ambitious projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs.

  For more information, see https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-2024-advanced-grants-results or contact Luca Incurvati at L.Incurvati at uva.nl.