Robert Markus of Hungary has won the international "Seeing Science" photography contest. The results were announced on Monday 25 February during the awards ceremony at the Trippenhuis Building in Amsterdam.
The Netherlands is one of the first countries in the world to have adopted a Code of Conduct for Biosecurity. The code is intended to raise awareness among scientists of the potential misuse of their research.
"It has been easier for the market to infiltrate academia and science unilaterally because scientists and especially their administrators have shown too little backbone.
Prof. Pieter R. Roelfsema has been appointed director of the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences, one of the institutes belonging to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Dutch medical researcher Steven Olde Damink and the German scientists Ralf Martin Jäger and Johan Frederic Hartle have been awarded this year's Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler research grants.
In its report Wetenschap op bestelling the KNAW advises the Minister of Education, Culture and Science on measures that can be taken to safeguard the independence of researchers in the public sector when carrying out contract research for external parties.
