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.
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 Syver Agdestein (Scientific Computing)
28 may 2026
from 1:30 p.m.
to
28 may 2026
2:30 p.m.
| University of Eindhoven, Atlas building
Data-driven discrete closure models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulence
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PhD defense - Galina Pass (A&C / QuSoft)
10 jun 2026
from 10 a.m.
to
10 jun 2026
11:30 a.m.
| Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231, Amsterdam
Galina Pass will defend the dissertation 'Quantum walks, recursion, and time-space tradeoffs for st-connectivity'.
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PhD Defence Lynn Engelberts (A&C / QuSoft)
17 jun 2026
from 11 a.m.
to
17 jun 2026
12:30 p.m.
| Aula (Lutherse kerk), Singel 411, Amsterdam
Classical and Quantum Cryptanalysis of Lattices and Codes
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PhD defence Alex Chebykin (Evolutionary Intelligence)
23 jun 2026
from 12:30 p.m.
to
23 jun 2026
1:30 p.m.
| TU Delft - Aula Conference Centre (Mekelweg 5)
Efficient Evolutionary Hyperparameter Optimization for Deep Learning
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PhD defence Sanne Vrijenhoek (Human Centered Data Analytics group)
1 jul 2026
from 11 a.m.
to
1 jul 2026
1 p.m.
| Aula of the University of Amsterdam (Singel 411, Amsterdam)
Building normative diversity into algorithmic news recommendations
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PhD defence Savvina Daniil (Human-Centered Data Analytics)
7 sep 2026
from 1:45 p.m.
to
7 sep 2026
4 p.m.
| Auditorium VU Amsterdam
Bias in book recommender systems
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