Projects and Awards

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  PDI-SSH subsidies structurally granted to Henkjan Honing and Floris Roelofsen

  We are pleased to announce that the 2021 grants awarded to Henkjan Honing and Onno Crasborn / Floris Roelofsen have been turned into structural grants.

  For more information, see https://pdi-ssh.nl/en/ or contact info at pdi-ssh.nl.
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  Templeton Foundation Grant awarded to Sebastian De Haro

  Sebastian De Haro (ILLC and IoP) and his colleagues have been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project together with Nima Lashkari (Purdue University), Hong Liu (MIT) and Richard Dawid (Stockholm University). The project explores how time might emerge from chaotic quantum systems.

  For more information, see here or at https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/news/2025/09/templeton-foundation-grant-awarded-to-sebastian-de-haro-olle.html or contact Sebastian De Haro at s.deharo at uva.nl.
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  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.