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Dutch researchers awarded prestigious Vidi grants for groundbreaking work

Sebastijan Dumančić, Anna Geyer, and Renée Hoekzema have been awarded Vidi grants for their research. The grants are a prestigious funding opportunity for early-career researchers in the Netherlands. Dumančić and Geyer are affiliated with Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, while Hoekzema's research focuses on the mathematics of evolution. AI

IMPACT These grants support early-career researchers, potentially advancing fields like AI and evolution.

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Dutch researchers awarded prestigious Vidi grants for groundbreaking work

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    Big congrats to my friends Sebastijan Dumančić, Anna Geyer, and Renée Hoekzema for being awarded Vidi grants! https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/eemcs/three-eemcs

    Big congrats to my friends Sebastijan Dumančić, Anna Geyer, and Renée Hoekzema for being awarded Vidi grants! https://www. tudelft.nl/en/2026/eemcs/three -eemcs-researchers-receive-vidi-funding-for-groundbreaking-research & https:// vu.nl/en/news/2026/renee-hoekz ema-receives-vid…