Impact Award
The Impact Award is awarded to distinguished researchers or research groups who made meaningful contributions to society with their research and innovations.
Honoring researchers creating impact
The award is an achievement award, that celebrates and acknowledges the importance of creating impact outside universities and in society.
The Impact Award is part of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AmSIA). The Impact Award is an initiative of IXA (Innovation Exchange Amsterdam), the Knowledge Transfer Office of HvA, UvA, VU and Amsterdam UMC). IXA identifies and nominates researchers for the Impact Award with help of it’s extensive network in the universities.
Impact Award recipients 2023
In 2023 Impact Award recipients were Guus van Dongen (Amsterdam UMC), he developed new imaging techniques to visualize the behaviour of medicines in the body at molecular level, Toby Kiers (VU), researches underground ecosystems, and Dick den Hertog (UvA), shows that mathematical optimization can provide solutions for a wide variety of societal problems.
Previous Impact Award recipients
Since 2018 the Impact Award has been awarded to researchers who accomplished an important contribution to society with their research and impressive innovations.