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Awards and Honours

Members of the Department of Astrophysics have received a number of awards, grants and honours:

Year Department Member Honour or award
2002 Paul Groot NWO-VIDI grant
2002 Paul Groot EU-Descartes Prize (Gamma-Ray Bursts)
2003 Conny Aerts 26th Prix Paul& Marie Stroobants, Academie Royale Belgique
2004 Gijs Nelemans NWO-VENI grant
2005 Heino Falcke Academy Prize from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2005 Else van den Besselaar RU Frye Stipendium
2006 Heino Falcke Miller Visiting Professorship, UC Berkeley
2006 Gijs Roelofs NWO Rubicon grant
2006 Floris Hammer Huygens Talent grant
2006 Søren Larsen NWO-VIDI grant
2008 Gijs Nelemans NWO-VIDI grant
2008 Heino Falcke ERC Advanced Grant
2008 Conny Aerts ERC Advanced Grant
2008 Haili Hu RU Frye Stipendium
2009 Paul Groot Member KNAW Young Academy
2009 Jan Kuijpers Decorated Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion
2009 Haili Hu NWO Rubicon grant
2009 Clancy James NWO Rubicon grant
2009 Marijke Haverkorn NWO-VIDI grant
2009 Haili Hu Cum Laude distinction PhD award
2010 Conny Aerts Honorary Fellow of the RAS
2011 Marijke Haverkorn Joliot-Curie Fellowship
2011 Heino Falcke NWO Spinoza Prize
2011 Evert Glebbeek NWO-VENI grant
2011 Silvia Toonen RU Frye Stipendium
2011 Conny Aerts Member Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
2012 Conny Aerts Francqui Prize 2012

PhD awards

Year PhD student Supervisor(s) Current position
2005 Pui-Kei Fung prof. J. Kuijpers (at UU) Researcher KNMI, NL
2006 Joachim Moortgat prof. J. Kuijpers Software development, CA, USA
2006 Roy Smits prof. J. Kuijpers Astron, NL
2007 Gijs Roelofs prof. P.J. Groot & dr. G. Nelemans Centraal Plan Bureau, NL
2007 Else van den Besselaar prof. P.J. Groot & dr. T. Augusteijn & dr. Morales-Rueda KNMI, NL
2008 Andreas Nigl prof. J. Kuijpers & prof. H. Falcke Pilot @ Eurowings
2008 Sven Lafebre prof. J. Kuijpers & prof. H. Falcke UMC St. Radboud, NL
2009 Stijn Buitink prof. H. Falcke & prof. J. Kuijpers Berkeley, USA
2009 Haili Hu prof. C. Aerts & dr. G. Nelemans Cambridge University, UK
2009 Richard Hijmering prof.dr. P.J. Groot, dr. D. Martin, dr. P. Verhoeve SRON Utrecht
2011 Andreas Obermeier prof.dr. S. de Jong, prof.dr. D. Müller, dr. J. Hörandel RWTH Aachen, D