New Grants: Antibiotics, Urban Resilience, Nanoplastics

Researchers at the Faculty of Science work every day at the frontiers of knowledge, tackling today's major societal challenges. Their work is recognised through grants, prizes and other awards. We highlight some of these achievements.

Rubicon grant for research into first light

Timo Kist from the Leiden Observatory has been awarded a Rubicon grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant enables them to gain experience at a knowledge institute abroad. Kist will spend 24 months at the University of Cambridge studying the epoch of 'first light', when the very first stars formed in the universe.

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