Veni grant – € 250,000

• Camila Correa (STRW) – Do dark matter particles interact with each other? 
• Max van Duijn (LIACS) – A telling story: how children develop as storytellers and mindreaders   
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) – Are you sure you didn't miss something?
• Sergii Pud (LION) – Molecular ping-pong to study proteins
• Mónica Varela Álvarez (IBL) – Conquering the tuberculosis fortress
• Joseph Callingham (STRW) – Life around a radio star
• Melissa McClure (STRW) – Jumpstarting life on terrestrial planets

Vidi grant – € 800,000

• Alessandra Silvestri (STRW) – Lighting up Einstein’s Dark Universe
• Sander Wezenberg (LIC) – Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicate
• Tim van Erven (MI) – Automatic faster learning for artificial intelligence

Vici grant – € 1.5 million

• Jeroen Codée (LIC) – Sweet reaction mechanisms
• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) – Blocking cancer proteins with metallodrugs and light 

TOP grant – € 249,000

• Matthijs van Leeuwen (LIACS) – Human-Guided Data Science by Interactive Model Selection

Physics Projectruimte

• Jan Aarts (LION) – Spin texture Josephson junctions
• Vadim Cheianov (LION) – Slow as light, fast as a snail

Rubicon

• Valeriya Korol (STRW) – Listening to Einstein’s invisible waves from the Milky Way

Comenius programme

• Ludo Juurlink (LIC) receives € 250,000 for 'Studying Mobile' and becomes a Leadership Fellow
• Fred Janssen (ICLON) receives € 100,000 for 'Research-driven learning for large groups' and becomes a Senior Fellow

Science KLEIN-1 – up to € 350,000

• Dennis Claessen (IBL) – Do cells without a cell wall play a role in chronic tuberculosis infections?
• Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Quantum Hall physics in a Weyl superconductor

Living labs in the Dutch delta

• The Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) is involved in the Dutch project C-SHAPE, which received 1 million euros

Open Competition - XS – € 50,000

• Ariane Briegel (IBL) – Efficient and flexible platform to isolate and study bacteriophages

Gravitation Grant

• Catholijn Jonker and Holger Hoos (LIACS) are involved in the project Hybrid Intelligence, which received 19 million euros
• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) is involved in the project Exposome-NL, which received 26 million euros
• Jos Raaijmakers, Ariane Briegel and Gilles van Wezel (IBL) are involved in the project MiCRop, which received 20.3 million euros   
• Thomas Bäck and Catholijn Jonker (LIACS) are involved in the project Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, which received 17.9 million euros

Perspective

• Matthijs van Leeuwen (LIACS) is involved in the project DIGITAL TWIN, which received 4 million euros

MasCot – € 570,000

• Todor Stefanov (LIACS) and Andy Pimentel (UvA) – Complex and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems

Research along Routes by Consortia (ORC)

• Peter Klinkhamer (IBL) leads the project 'Self Defense: Mimicking natural deterrent strategies in plants using adhesive spheres and volatiles', which received 1.4 million euros
• Maarten Schrama (CML) is involved in the project 'Preparing for vector-borne virus outbreaks in a changing world: a One Health Approach', which received 9 million euros
• Tjerk Oosterkamp (LION) is involved in the project 'Quantum microscopy: A new tool for future technologies', which received 1.4 million euros
• LIACS is involved in the project CORTEX, which received 5 million euros

Idea Generator – € 50,000

• Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber (LION) – Is air pollution behind dementia? Unravelling the origin of magnetite nanoparticles in the brain
• Joost Beltman (LACDR) – Integration of machine learning and mechanistic models to analyse network dynamics
• Yasmine Abouleila (LACDR) – Disease biomarker detection for Ebola and Lassa virus-induced vasculopathy 
• Daniel Rozen (IBL) – Experimental evolution of beneficial soil microbiomes

Dekker grant – € 427,000

• Amanda Foks (LACDR) receives the Dekker grant from the Dutch Hartstichting

Dekker Grant: Established Investigator – € 650,000

• Ilze Bot (LACDR) receives the Established Investigator grant

ERC Starting Grant – € 2 million

• Roxanne Kieltyka (LIC) – Developing chemical strategies to modulate the mechanical properties of supramolecular materials

ERC Consolidator Grant – € 2 million

• Simcha Jong Kon Chin (LIACS) – International consortia: the future for science?
• Luca Giomi (LION) – The strange hexatic phase: half fluid, half solid
• Sander van Kasteren (LIC) – Improving therapeutic vaccines

ERC Advanced Grant – € 2 million

• Carlo Beenakker (LION) – Majorana fermions in superconductors

Proof of Concept Grant 

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) receives 150,000 euros for research into light-activated chemotherapy

• Agur Sevink (LIC), Willie Peijnenburg, and Martina Vijver (CML) are involved in the European project NanoInformatics, which received 6.8 million euros 
• Herman Spaink (IBL) is involved in the international consortium RespiriTB/RespiriNTM, which received 18 million euros from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 

Coordination and Support Actions – € 1 million

• Huub de Groot (LIC) coordinates the international consortium SUNRISE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) and Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) are involved in the project LogicLab, which received 3.5 million euros
• Michael Emmerich, Frank Takes and Suzan Verberne (LIACS) are involved in RISE_SMA, which received 1,168,400 euros

FET Open 

• Sylvestre Bonnet (LIC) is part of the consortium SoFiA, which received 3.2 million euros

• Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR) is involved in the project DuSRA-VOILA, which received 8.5 million euros

Den Dulk-Moermans Fund – € 25,000

• Frédérique Kok (LACDR) – The mastermind research approach to crack the code for Alzheimer’s disease: contribution of cytokines

• Valeriya Korol (STRW) has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowship 2019 of 25,000 dollars
• The Leiden Hortus botanicus has received an inheritance of 5 million euros from the estate of Carla van Steijn
• Rychard Bouwens (STRW) has been assigned a Large Programme from ALMA 

• Alireza Mashaghi (LACDR) receives the Personal Grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Harold Linnartz and Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) are key participants of the Center for Interstellar Catalysis, which received 8.9 million euros
• Ariane Briegel and Alise Muok (IBL) receive a grant of 150,000 euros from the Dutch Cancer Society

• Joris Timmermans (CML) wins the Stans Award 2018 for outreach
• Sebastiaan Deetman (CML) wins the Stans Award for the best CML scientific publication
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) has been nominated as New Scientist science talent  
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) is one of Elsevier's 30 greatest talents
• Leon Jacobse (LIC) receives the distinction cum laude for his PhD dissertation
• Thom Hersbach (LIC) receives the distinction cum laude for his PhD dissertation

• Vedran Dunjko (LIACS) contributed to a paper which is awarded the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
• Marc Koper (LIC) receives the Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Award
• Lindsey Burggraaff (LACDR) wins the Leiden FameLab heat
• Peter Koymans (MI) is awarded as ‘best mathematics PhD student’ by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society
• Anna Louise Latour (LIACS) wins the pitch prize at ICT.OPEN
• Can Wang (LIACS) wins the second prize in the Commit2Data poster competition at ICT.OPEN
• Annebelle Kok (IBL) wins the Rodney Coates Award
• Cameron Mackie (STRW) receives two Dissertation Prizes, from both the American Astronomical Society and the American Chemical Society
• Jos de Boer (STRW) has received the Chesneau Prize for his dissertation

• Nienke Beets (Leiden Hortus botanicus) wins the Joke 't Hart Prize from the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens
• Jorryt Mathee (STRW) wins the IAU PhD Prize in the division Galaxies and Cosmology
• Niels Ligterink (STRW) wins the IAU PhD Prize in the division Facilities, Technology and Data Science
• Bas Goulooze (LACDR) wins the Lewis Sheiner Student Session award
• Joke Bouwstra (LACDR) wins the Transdermal Delivery Kydonieus Foundation Award from the Controlled Release Society
• Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) has received the Schwarzschild Medal
• Rob van Wijk (LACDR) is Highlighted Trainee Author in the October issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• Christopher Berg Smiet (LION) wins the Christiaan Huygens Prize
• Ignas Snellen (STRW) wins the Hans Sigrist Prize

• Bas Goulooze, Natalia Ortiz Zacarías and Huub Sijben (LACDR) win prizes at the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days
• Meindert Danhof (LACDR) has received the Høst Madsen Medal
• Thom Hersbach (LIC) has received the Dick Stufkens Prize 2019 
• Daniela Kraft (LION) wins the Athena Prize 2019
• Jorinde van de Vis (LION) wins For Women in Science Rising Talent Prize

• Amy Montanje (IBL) receives the Kees Bakker Award
• Louie Krol (CML) wins the Stans Prize 2018 for his master's thesis
• Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen (LIACS) receives the VERSEN Master Thesis Award 3rd prize
• Laurens Arp, Dyon van Vreumingen, Jan van Staalduinen, Jaco Tetteroo, Jeroen Rook and Brent Verpaalen (LIACS) are in the top 10 of the Future Cities Challenge
• Esmée de Zwaan (LACDR) has won the KNMP Student Award
• Leiden students (MI & LIACS) have won the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest and the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
• The student team iGEM Leiden has won the prize for Best Manufacturing Project
• A record number of ten Leiden Science students has received a Young Talent Award
• Dana Rademaker (LIC) wins the Unilever Research Prize

• Three medals for Dutch girls at European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad

• Robbert Dijkgraaf has been appointed as Honorary Doctor   
• Stéphanie van der Pas (MI) and Yamila Miguel (STRW) join Young Academy Leiden
• Seth Lloyd is the 65th Lorentz Professor (LION)
• Bas Schaalje (ICT in Business and the Public Sector) is the new student assessor
• Hubertus Irth (LACDR) has been appointed as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science
• Ariane Briegel (IBL) has been appointed as co-director of NeCEN
• Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science

• Peter Stevenhagen (MI) has been appointed as Scientific Director of the Mathematical Institute
• Joost Visser (LIACS) has been appointed as Professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science
• Marcus Specht LIACS) has been appointed as Professor of Digital Education

• Ionica Smeets (IBL) has been appointed as member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)
• Kevin Duisters (MI) takes part in the first cohort of the Data Fellows program from the United Nations Global Pulse
• Mario van der Stelt (LIC) and his lab join the Oncode Institute

• Esther Philips (CML) has been appointed as Chair-elect of the European Association for Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA)
• Marcel de Jeu (MI) is professor by special appointment at the University of Pretoria
• Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) has been appointed as Honorary Doctor at the University of Geneva
• Elizabeth de Lange (LACDR) has been appointed as Honorary Doctor in Pharmacy at Uppsala University
• Geert de Snoo (CML) has been appointed as Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

• Ap Gluvers has been appointed as Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau
• Aad van der Vaart (MI) has been appointed as Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands