During their 4 years of research, our PhD students work at CWI. As CWI is no university, their PhD defences take place at the university of the main supervisor, often a professor who is a researcher at CWI and who works at a university for 1 or 2 days a week. We collaborate with many Dutch universities (see also Together with universities we tackle major societal challenges).
PhD defences
At CWI, we believe that combining different talents creates excellence, so we make sure to nurture and facilitate young researchers from different backgrounds. We are proud to say that many Dutch researchers in mathematics and computer science once worked at CWI in their careers.
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PhD defence Azim Afroozeh (Database Architectures)
9 Jan 2026
from 1:45 p.m.
to 9 Jan 2026 3:15 p.m.
| VU Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam
FastLanes: A Next-Gen File Format
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PhD defence Boyu Xu (Human- Centered Data Analytics) + workshop
14 Jan 2026
from 2 p.m.
to 14 Jan 2026 4 p.m.
| Utrecht University Hall
Title of the dissertation is: "Exploring Indirect Relations Between Topics in Neuroscience Literature Using Augmented Reality to Inform Experimental Design".
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PhD defence Marten Folkertsma (Algorithms and Complexity)
19 Jan 2026
from 1 p.m.
to 19 Jan 2026 2:30 p.m.
| Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231, Amsterdam
Marten Folkertsma will defend the dissertation 'Empowering quantum computation with three resources. Measurement and feedforward, catalytic space, and classical guiding states'. Supervisors are Prof. H.M. Buhrman and Prof. C.J.M. Schoutens.
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