Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus – Laureate

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2021

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus has made an important contribution to research in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Patients with this serious hereditary muscle disease lack the protein dystrophin, because the gene code for dystrophin is unreadable. Thanks in part to the fundamental pioneering work of Aartsma-Rus, an exon skipping therapy is now available in the USA and Japan that can make the genetic code readable again. This can slow down disease progression for Duchenne patients.

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Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Jacco van Rheenen developed a groundbreaking form of microscopy, allowing individual cells to be tracked for weeks in a living organism. This new form of research provides valuable information about the behaviour of, and the interaction between, cells. For example, he was the first person to film the process of metastatic cancer.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Lenneke Alink – Laureate

Lenneke Alink – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Lenneke Alink takes the understanding of child maltreatment to a higher level with high-quality experimental research. She has a broad interest in the subject looking at both the role of chaos in the household, but also at that of the stress system in cases of abuse and neglect. Her work maps out the causes and consequences of this horrific problem – an important step towards solving it.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Toby Kiers – Laureate

Toby Kiers – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Toby Kiers is interested in the interaction between plants and micro-organisms in the soil. An active trade in nutrients takes place between roots and fungi which can be described using economic theory that is actually meant for human markets. Her original approach provides new insights into the evolution of societies in the natural world.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Jeroen Geurts – Laureate

Jeroen Geurts – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
- 2017

Jeroen Geurts was a pioneer in tracking difficult to detect abnormalities in the brains of MS patients. In the course of this work he came up with a new theory about the cause of MS, one which fundamentally differs from the theory that most of his colleagues have adhered to for many years. Jeroen Geurts is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Eva van Rooij – Laureate

Eva van Rooij – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Eva van Rooij was the first person to discover that microRNA molecules, components of living cells which have only recently been discovered, play a role in heart diseases. She is now investigating other molecular mechanisms that affect our cardiac cells. Is it possible to influence these so as to limit damage to such cells or even reverse it? Eva van Rooij is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Appy Sluijs – Laureate

Appy Sluijs – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Appy Sluijs discovered that 56 million years ago, due to a chain-reaction in the oceans and the atmosphere, there was a rise in the greenhouse effect on the Earth. Palm trees grew at the poles and the Arctic Ocean became as warm as a subtropical swimming pool. Could something similar happen again? Appy Sluijs is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

For decades the Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome research team at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam has been focusing on how exactly cells do in fact repair themselves. What is unique about this team is that they study this process, in relation to ageing and cancer, at difference levels of complexity: In relation to cancer and ageing, for example, they are looking atfrom single individual molecules to as well as at complete physiological processes within the cell or the patient.

ammodo-science-award.org

Ewout Frankema – Laureate

Ewout Frankema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Ewout Frankema studies the historical roots of global inequality between the poor and the rich. This inequality grew dramatically between 1750 and 1990, and since then it has hardly reduced at all. In his integrated historical approach, he combines research into the ecological and geographical conditions in which rural societies develop with the economic, political and social relations which are shaped by mankind.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Teun Bousema – Laureate

Teun Bousema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Teun Bousema unravels the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite carried by mosquitoes that causes malaria. He is particularly interested in how a parasite from an infected human is then reintroduced to a new mosquito, and it was Bousema who discovered, among other things, that some people have an immune reaction that prevents this step from happening.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Birte Forstmann – Laureate

Birte Forstmann – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Birte Forstmann works at the intersection between our behaviour on the one hand and the anatomy of our brains on the other. How do they relate to each other? And what mechanisms in the brain make it possible for a person to respond to his or her environment? In her research she focuses mainly on the subcortex, a large structure in the middle of the brain that plays a major role in Parkinson’s disease.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

 

Eveline Crone – Laureate

Eveline Crone – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
- 2017

Eveline Crone discovered that not every part of the human brain develops at the same time. In puberty brain centers determining emotions develop more quickly than those which control rational decision making. This helps explain unrestrained, irresponsible and risky adolescent behaviour. How does the adolescent brain use this turbulent phase to learn to take creative but balanced decisions? Eveline Crone is a Social Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Guido van der Werf – Laureate

Guido van der Werf – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Guido van der Werf researches the amount of greenhouse gases that are entering the atmosphere because of the burning of forests, grasslands and peat bogs. With the help of models, satellite photos and drones he charts the contributions of burning, deforestation and the expansion of agricultural land on the greenhouse effect. Guido is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Ronald Hanson – Laureate

Ronald Hanson – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2015

In the legendary science fiction film Star Trek Captain Kirk is teleported home from far away in the universe by his chief engineer “Scotty”. Physicists, including Ronald Hanson, have been trying to do something vaguely similar. “Quantum teleportation,” is an experiment by which information is transferred without the use of sound, light or any other form of energy. Ronald Hanson is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2015.

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Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

One thing is clear: we need to understand how people interact with each other and above all what motivates them to make choices in their social interactions that are positive for themselves and others as well as for future generations and the natural world. This is what the nine-member team Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam (SENSA) at the VU University in Amsterdam is working on. It is investigating what happens in the brains of children and adolescents during all sorts of often subconscious, social interactions, the assumption being that the sooner you understand what is going on in the young, still developing brains, the greater the chance that you, their teacher or parent, can influence them in a positive way.

Read our interview from 2023 with Lydia Krabbendam en Tieme Janssen from SENSA.

ammodo-science-award.org

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Stephanie Wehner is working on a fundamental challenge: how entanglement can be created over long distances in order to then make a quantum internet possible. Entanglement is a central concept in quantum mechanics, enabling safe communication and super-fast coordination. She now wants to realise this in the planned quantum network around Delft.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Nadine Akkerman – Laureate

Nadine Akkerman – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Nadine Akkerman has described in unprecedented detail the letter correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, a distant ancestor of Queen Elizabeth. With her innovative research methods, such as the use of 3D X-ray scanners to read unopened letters, she is a forerunner in discovering the role of women in the politics and espionage of the seventeenth century.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Roshan Cools – Laureate

Roshan Cools – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Roshan Cools discovered that medicines which affect our brains do not always have the same effect: a substance that increases concentration in a person’s brain, can actually reduce the flexibility of that brain. For someone else the effects may be the opposite. Cools is searching for the brain mechanisms behind something that has preoccupied philosophers throughout the ages: human will power. Roshan Cools is a Social Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Alicia Montoya – Laureate

Alicia Montoya – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Through studying 18th-century library sales catalogues, Alicia Montoya discovered that at a time when the Enlightenment changed thinking in Europe, religious books were still the biggest sellers. She questions what the impact of the philosophical transformation was amongst the wider population, outside the small circle of the intellectual elite. Has the hegemony of knowledge and reason been overstated? Alicia Montoya is Humanities laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Olivier Hekster – Laureate

Olivier Hekster – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Olivier Hekster revisits the labelling of Roman Emperors such as Nero, Caligula and Commodus as ‘mad’ by looking at their use of the mass-media of antiquity: effigies on coins, statues and inscriptions on buildings. How did these Emperors attempt to establish their power over their vast empire using such communications? Olivier Hekster is a Humanities laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Caroline Klaver – Laureate

Caroline Klaver – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2015

Eye-diseases are rapidly becoming more significant: there are already more than 300,000 blind and visually impaired people in the Netherlands. Due to the aging population this number will increase explosively in the coming years. Caroline Klaver is a scientific researcher and ophthalmologist, and a driving force behind research into the root causes of some of the most common eye problems. Caroline Klaver is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2015.

ammodo-knaw-award.org

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus – Laureate

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2021

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus has made an important contribution to research in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Patients with this serious hereditary muscle disease lack the protein dystrophin, because the gene code for dystrophin is unreadable. Thanks in part to the fundamental pioneering work of Aartsma-Rus, an exon skipping therapy is now available in the USA and Japan that can make the genetic code readable again. This can slow down disease progression for Duchenne patients.

ammodo-science-award.org

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

For decades the Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome research team at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam has been focusing on how exactly cells do in fact repair themselves. What is unique about this team is that they study this process, in relation to ageing and cancer, at difference levels of complexity: In relation to cancer and ageing, for example, they are looking atfrom single individual molecules to as well as at complete physiological processes within the cell or the patient.

ammodo-science-award.org

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

One thing is clear: we need to understand how people interact with each other and above all what motivates them to make choices in their social interactions that are positive for themselves and others as well as for future generations and the natural world. This is what the nine-member team Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam (SENSA) at the VU University in Amsterdam is working on. It is investigating what happens in the brains of children and adolescents during all sorts of often subconscious, social interactions, the assumption being that the sooner you understand what is going on in the young, still developing brains, the greater the chance that you, their teacher or parent, can influence them in a positive way.

Read our interview from 2023 with Lydia Krabbendam en Tieme Janssen from SENSA.

ammodo-science-award.org

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Jacco van Rheenen developed a groundbreaking form of microscopy, allowing individual cells to be tracked for weeks in a living organism. This new form of research provides valuable information about the behaviour of, and the interaction between, cells. For example, he was the first person to film the process of metastatic cancer.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Ewout Frankema – Laureate

Ewout Frankema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Ewout Frankema studies the historical roots of global inequality between the poor and the rich. This inequality grew dramatically between 1750 and 1990, and since then it has hardly reduced at all. In his integrated historical approach, he combines research into the ecological and geographical conditions in which rural societies develop with the economic, political and social relations which are shaped by mankind.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Stephanie Wehner is working on a fundamental challenge: how entanglement can be created over long distances in order to then make a quantum internet possible. Entanglement is a central concept in quantum mechanics, enabling safe communication and super-fast coordination. She now wants to realise this in the planned quantum network around Delft.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Lenneke Alink – Laureate

Lenneke Alink – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Lenneke Alink takes the understanding of child maltreatment to a higher level with high-quality experimental research. She has a broad interest in the subject looking at both the role of chaos in the household, but also at that of the stress system in cases of abuse and neglect. Her work maps out the causes and consequences of this horrific problem – an important step towards solving it.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Teun Bousema – Laureate

Teun Bousema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Teun Bousema unravels the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite carried by mosquitoes that causes malaria. He is particularly interested in how a parasite from an infected human is then reintroduced to a new mosquito, and it was Bousema who discovered, among other things, that some people have an immune reaction that prevents this step from happening.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Nadine Akkerman – Laureate

Nadine Akkerman – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Nadine Akkerman has described in unprecedented detail the letter correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, a distant ancestor of Queen Elizabeth. With her innovative research methods, such as the use of 3D X-ray scanners to read unopened letters, she is a forerunner in discovering the role of women in the politics and espionage of the seventeenth century.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Toby Kiers – Laureate

Toby Kiers – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Toby Kiers is interested in the interaction between plants and micro-organisms in the soil. An active trade in nutrients takes place between roots and fungi which can be described using economic theory that is actually meant for human markets. Her original approach provides new insights into the evolution of societies in the natural world.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Birte Forstmann – Laureate

Birte Forstmann – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Birte Forstmann works at the intersection between our behaviour on the one hand and the anatomy of our brains on the other. How do they relate to each other? And what mechanisms in the brain make it possible for a person to respond to his or her environment? In her research she focuses mainly on the subcortex, a large structure in the middle of the brain that plays a major role in Parkinson’s disease.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

 

Roshan Cools – Laureate

Roshan Cools – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Roshan Cools discovered that medicines which affect our brains do not always have the same effect: a substance that increases concentration in a person’s brain, can actually reduce the flexibility of that brain. For someone else the effects may be the opposite. Cools is searching for the brain mechanisms behind something that has preoccupied philosophers throughout the ages: human will power. Roshan Cools is a Social Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Jeroen Geurts – Laureate

Jeroen Geurts – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
- 2017

Jeroen Geurts was a pioneer in tracking difficult to detect abnormalities in the brains of MS patients. In the course of this work he came up with a new theory about the cause of MS, one which fundamentally differs from the theory that most of his colleagues have adhered to for many years. Jeroen Geurts is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Eveline Crone – Laureate

Eveline Crone – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
- 2017

Eveline Crone discovered that not every part of the human brain develops at the same time. In puberty brain centers determining emotions develop more quickly than those which control rational decision making. This helps explain unrestrained, irresponsible and risky adolescent behaviour. How does the adolescent brain use this turbulent phase to learn to take creative but balanced decisions? Eveline Crone is a Social Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Alicia Montoya – Laureate

Alicia Montoya – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Through studying 18th-century library sales catalogues, Alicia Montoya discovered that at a time when the Enlightenment changed thinking in Europe, religious books were still the biggest sellers. She questions what the impact of the philosophical transformation was amongst the wider population, outside the small circle of the intellectual elite. Has the hegemony of knowledge and reason been overstated? Alicia Montoya is Humanities laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Eva van Rooij – Laureate

Eva van Rooij – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Eva van Rooij was the first person to discover that microRNA molecules, components of living cells which have only recently been discovered, play a role in heart diseases. She is now investigating other molecular mechanisms that affect our cardiac cells. Is it possible to influence these so as to limit damage to such cells or even reverse it? Eva van Rooij is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Guido van der Werf – Laureate

Guido van der Werf – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Guido van der Werf researches the amount of greenhouse gases that are entering the atmosphere because of the burning of forests, grasslands and peat bogs. With the help of models, satellite photos and drones he charts the contributions of burning, deforestation and the expansion of agricultural land on the greenhouse effect. Guido is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Olivier Hekster – Laureate

Olivier Hekster – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Olivier Hekster revisits the labelling of Roman Emperors such as Nero, Caligula and Commodus as ‘mad’ by looking at their use of the mass-media of antiquity: effigies on coins, statues and inscriptions on buildings. How did these Emperors attempt to establish their power over their vast empire using such communications? Olivier Hekster is a Humanities laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Appy Sluijs – Laureate

Appy Sluijs – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2017

Appy Sluijs discovered that 56 million years ago, due to a chain-reaction in the oceans and the atmosphere, there was a rise in the greenhouse effect on the Earth. Palm trees grew at the poles and the Arctic Ocean became as warm as a subtropical swimming pool. Could something similar happen again? Appy Sluijs is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017.

Ronald Hanson – Laureate

Ronald Hanson – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2015

In the legendary science fiction film Star Trek Captain Kirk is teleported home from far away in the universe by his chief engineer “Scotty”. Physicists, including Ronald Hanson, have been trying to do something vaguely similar. “Quantum teleportation,” is an experiment by which information is transferred without the use of sound, light or any other form of energy. Ronald Hanson is a Natural Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2015.

ammodo-knaw-award.org

Caroline Klaver – Laureate

Caroline Klaver – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo KNAW Award
2015

Eye-diseases are rapidly becoming more significant: there are already more than 300,000 blind and visually impaired people in the Netherlands. Due to the aging population this number will increase explosively in the coming years. Caroline Klaver is a scientific researcher and ophthalmologist, and a driving force behind research into the root causes of some of the most common eye problems. Caroline Klaver is a Biomedical Sciences laureate of the Ammodo KNAW Award 2015.

ammodo-knaw-award.org