Each year the international network of University-based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) selects a ‘Topic of the Year’; a topic of global importance that is explored through different activities and formats. In ...

From 24-26 October 2019, the annual AIS conference will be hosted for the first time in Europe, by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands. This ...

IAS fellow-alumnus Wim Hordijk has written a short report on the Conference on Complex Systems 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The IAS Board of Associates has recently selected Dr. Maarten Marsman as research fellow. He will join the IAS community part-time for the duration of one year.

At the UvA Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) researchers from various disciplines collaboratively develop new methods to get a grip on complex challenges (e.g. health, crime, market stability, inequality). AT5, the ...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers 10 outstanding students the opportunity to join the IAS research community. You will get a place to work on your final thesis in a ...

The IAS and Amsterdam Brain & Cognition (ABC) join forces to facilitate grant writing by offering special fellowships.

An interdisciplinary research team of computational scientists, biologists, medical scientists, and mathematicians, led by Peter Sloot, professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the UvA and Scientific Director of the ...

NWO has recently opened a call for proposals ‘Complexity & Creative Industry’ to stimulate research on complex, persistent societal problems that cannot be solved by traditional governance or design approaches. ...

With much pleasure we announce that the UvA Simulation-based Science community will continue to meet regularly at the IAS in the academic year 2018-2019. This year we will organise five thematic meetings, besides the ...

Alfons Hoekstra (Professor of Computational BioMedicine) and Peter Sloot (Professor of Computational Science and IAS Scientific Director) are involved in a large European research consortium that aims to create the ...

On 29 August 2018, the University of Amsterdam and TNO signed a Letter of Intent to establish a new partnership: “Policy by Simulation”. They join forces to get a better understanding of complex phenomena, and create ...

With the start of the new academic year, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomes three new research fellows. Luc Coffeng, Claudi Bockting and Paul Duijn will join the IAS part-time for the duration of one year. ...

Julian Burger, postgraduate student (Psychology) from the University of Amsterdam, has been awarded an NWO Research Talent grant to carry out PhD research on implementing network modelling in clinical practice. His ...

Sacha Epskamp, assistant professor at the Psychological Methods department of the University of Amsterdam and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, has received an NWO Veni grant for his project on ...

Maartje Eijlander and Casper Hesp, postgraduate students from the University of Amsterdam, have both been awarded an NWO Research Talent grant to carry out PhD research. Both projects will be (partly) hosted by the ...

Although one might expect that university rankings would steer scientific collaboration towards ‘working with the best only’, a recent study shows that geographical vicinity is one of the strongest indicators of the ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the University of Geneva has shown that information processing features can accurately predict the emergent behaviour of complex ...

Did you know that at the UvA more than 100 researchers, spread across all faculties, apply advanced computational modelling and simulation methods in their research? They have recently established the UvA ...

Antonio Cappuccio (computational biologist and data scientist) joined the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) as research fellow. He will be working at IAS until June and from December until March 2019.

On 21 March 2018, our membership application has been approved during the UBIAS Directors' Conference in São Paulo, Brazil.

A newly formed interdisciplinary IAS consortium on health systems complexity, under the leadership of IAS Associate Karien Stronks (Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Public Health), recently received a ...

ABC members who wish to create and write a novel interdisciplinary research proposal on one of ABC's research themes, can apply for an ABC-IAS grant that allows them to spend time at the IAS and work in a small team ...

IAS Associate Jelle Bruineberg (Philosophy) is awarded an ABC (Amsterdam Brain and Cognition) Talent Grant. With this grant, Bruineberg aims to submit a NWO VENI-proposal on the topic of ‘explanation in adaptive ...

IAS research fellow Sacha Epskamp has won the Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Network Psychometrics’. Epskamp: "Receiving this prize is a great honour for me".

Last Wednesday, the Institute for Advanced Study received an unexpected visitor: a tourist from Germany knocked on our door. She read about the IAS building in BauNetz, a German magazine on architecture and decided ...

A new international study led by UvA researchers Peter Sloot and Michael Lees has yielded extensive data on slums in Bangalore and provides a detailed insight into the problem of poverty in India. The highly granular ...

The Origins Center of the Netherlands has recently granted seed funding to explore the first steps towards establishing a Computational Origins of Life Simulator.

We are pleased to announce that the IAS Board of Associates has recently awarded fellowships to a selection of talented researchers, both from the University of Amsterdam as well as from other universities and ...

As part of a scientific workshop, we have organised a special exhibition inspired by D'Arcy Thompson's famous book “On Growth and Form”. You can visit this temporary exhibition at the UvA Special Collections until 8 ...

The NPCS funds mini-workshops on complex systems aiming at encouraging new scientists to the field of complexity.

Apply now for the 2018 Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico).

IAS Associate Patricia Pisters is co-organising the Worlding the Brain Conference, from 2 till 4 November 2017 in Amsterdam.

Eberhard van der Laan, Burgemeester van Amsterdam en inspirerend lid van de Board of Trustees van het IAS is overleden.

The Netherlands Platform Complex System (NPCS) has granted funding to organise a workshop: "Making sense of the data deluge: translating host-microbiome interaction data into systems level". The workshop will be ...

On the occasion of the first official meeting of its Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Trustees, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) organised several events on September 7-8, 2017.

The Institute for Advanced Study is happy to announce that it has strengthened its Boards of Associates with six new members.

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the potential host organisations for research fellows (postdoc positions) in the Origins Center of the Netherlands.

IAS Scientific Director Peter Sloot will give a lecture on the quantum nature of biology and life at the symposium "Fundamentals of Life in the Universe" (Groningen, 31/08-01/09),

The international network of University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) initiated the Intercontinental Academia where ‘scientific exchange’ between generations, disciplines, cultures and continents takes ...

Patricia Pisters (Film Studies) has been appointed as a new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On May 8-9, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna will organise a workshop to discuss the digital future of our society.

Professor Peter M.A. Sloot is scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the UvA.

As of March 2017, Henkjan Honing is the new academic director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). Honing is professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and IAS Associate.

The Netherlands Platform Complex System (NPCS) has granted funds for two workshops to be hosted by the IAS.

In 2017 the European Research Council will mark its 10th anniversary. The University of Amsterdam is the ‘top hosting organisation’ in the Netherlands with 71 ERC-grants.

On 23 February the first Excellence Lounge took place at the IAS. Students from the Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship and Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship were invited for an academic discussion with IAS ...

The Institute for Advanced Study is honored to announce that Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth has accepted to join the Board of Trustees.

The Institute for Advanced Study is proud to present a new member of its Scientific Advisory Board: David Krakauer.

The inauguration of the UvA Institute for Advanced Study on 19 September drew a large enthousiastic audience to the Agnietenkapel, thanks to a varied programme and eminent speakers.