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Image: Bram Belloni. From left to right: Miguel Leung, Yusuf Çelik, Ayushi Rastogi, Anne Urai, Hester den Ruijter, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken Amsterdam, 2 October 2026 – Miguel Leung, Yusuf [...]

  How do people make choices, and what happens in our brains when we do? Anne Urai (1988), assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience at Leiden University, investigates how our [...]

Software is intricately intertwined with virtually every aspect of our lives, from paying by card at the supermarket to checking in to board a train. When software fails, it [...]

  Over the centuries, religions have adopted all sorts of ideas and customs from each other. Yusuf Çelik (1986), assistant professor of Digital Humanities and Islam at VU University [...]

  In many forms of infertility, it has been established that something is going wrong with sperm or egg cells, but exactly what remains unclear. Miguel Leung (1996) is [...]

The Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation has established a Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) for the Heineken Prizes and the Heineken Young Scientists Awards. The Council is chaired by Robbert Dijkgraaf [...]

The Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation is embracing a new chapter to ensure the continued legacy of its prestigious arts and science awards. To help advance this mission, the Foundation [...]

Six top scientists were honoured during the 60th-anniversary ceremony of the Heineken Prizes for their outstanding achievements in the field of science. Proteomics pioneers Ruedi Aebersold and Matthias Mann received the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize [...]

Manon van Scheppingen (1988), a university lecturer in developmental psychology at Tilburg University, is the recipient of the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Social Sciences. The jury praises [...]