We have interviewed alumni of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation award. Watch their stories to see how the AmSIA has supported their exciting journey.
Scientist Arnon Lesage, AmSIA winner in 2021, is now CEO of start-up SolarFoil that develops a new type of nano foil that converts sunlight into optimal light for more efficient agriculture and horticulture.
In 2019, the research team of Chris Slootweg and Marissa de Boer won the award with the idea to recover phosphate waste as a resource and convert it into high value products.
Sem Vijverberg, pre-finalist in 2021. works on long-range weather predictions that can play an important role in dealing with climate change and challenges such as potential crop failures and forest fires.
In 2017, Nathalie de Vent won the award with the idea for a new online infrastructure for the improvement of neuropsychological diagnostics to test whether patients have a brain disease.
Maaike van Rest was a finalist in 2014. She registered with the idea for a diagnostic instrument that identifies the strengths and weaknesses of social information processing of children.
In 2018, Jonathan Coutinho and Wouter Potters winners won the award with the idea to measure the severity of the situation of a stroke patient in the ambulance with a mobile scanner.
In 2016, Bram Schermers won the award with the idea for a magnetic localization technology that helps surgeons find the right tissue during surgery for breast cancer treatment.
The Innovation Awards were presented for the 16th time at NEMO Science Museum, to Zeliha Guler, Pepijn van Rutten and Olivier Lugier.
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