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Lisa Kohl receives Vidi grant for secure collaboration on sensitive data

Cryptology-researcher Lisa Kohl is awarded a Vidi grant from NWO for research on secure Multi Party Computation (MPC). The aim is to allow parties that work with sensitive data to share data …

Portrait of Lisa Kohl

Bert Zwart named INFORMS Fellow

Bert Zwart, leader of CWI’s Stochastics group, has been named a 2026 INFORMS Fellow, one of the highest professional honours in operations research and analytics. He is recognized for his mathematical work …

portrait of Stochastics group leader Bert Zwart

New strategic research and innovation agenda to strengthen European digital sovereignty

To strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty, a broad coalition of European scientists and businesses has launched the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the Future of Software. The initiators are calling on …

Presentation of the SRIA to Thibaut Kleiner

International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Amsterdam in 2027

CWI researchers Daniel Dadush and Monique Laurent will be co-chairs of the conference.

Call for proposals Research Semester Programmes 2028-2029

The new Call for Proposals is now open! CWI invites colleagues from Dutch universities to jointly develop proposals for CWI Research Semester Programmes.

Van Wijngaarden Awards 2026 honour scientific pioneers and put Dutch AI perspective on the European agenda

How can the Netherlands and Europe shape a distinctive approach to artificial intelligence — and what role can academic research play? CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in …

CWI-VU Amsterdam research finalist for TKI Dinalog Impact Award

An AI research project that helps organizations plan transport routes and production more efficiently has been shortlisted for the TKI Dinalog Impact Award. Rob van der Mei from CWI’s Stochastics group and …

Location marking with a pin on a map with routes.

ERC Starting Grant for research on quantum error correction

Jonas Helsen, a researcher in CWI’s Algorithms & Complexity group, has been awarded a prestigious €1.5 million European grant. He will use the funding to develop methods for reliably analyzing and certifying …

Portrait of Jonas Helsen in front of CWI