In recent decades, inequality in the world has been increasing. Governance for Society looks at the underlying causes of inequality and how they relate to differences between regions, between urban and rural areas, and between educational levels. For example, Professor of Policy Evaluation Bas van der Klaauw focuses his research on economic inequality. What makes someone successful? And to what extent does education play a role in this?

The Econometrics and Data Science department aims at pushing the academic frontier in methodology development for quantitative, statistical modeling of data, ranging from machine learning methods to more traditional statistical and econometric techniques.Our teaching mission is to empower students with the methodological skills and continuing curiosity to contribute to solving today’s challenges in business and economics using the most up-to-date statistical and econometric tools.

ARCA’s main objective is to facilitate and stimulate fundamental and applied research in the following areas: Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Management Control, Accounting Information Systems, and Auditing. ARCA is also committed to bridge the gap between the academic community and practice by conducting commissioned research and by disseminating research outcomes among a wider audience.

The advancement of knowledge in all aspects of human reproduction and development through interdisciplinary team science aimed at improving health from preconception to adulthood of current and future generations. We are inspired by a future of continuous and sustainable improvement in health for all. We aspire a role at the forefront of fundamental, translational, and clinical science and public health research in human reproduction and development, creating a knowledge hub to guide science that serves the wider society.

The Amsterdam Public Health research institute (APH) is a network institute and forms an important link between intramural clinical care, scientific research, and the extramural care practice in the metropolitan area Amsterdam. Much research performed within APH has the potential to have a direct impact on the society and in practice. This is embedded within our mission: Public Health: health for all, powered by science.

Amsterdam Neuroscience is the research institute for neuroscience of Amsterdam UMC and the science faculties of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. Researchers and clinicians from these three institutions join forces in the field of fundamental, translational and clinical brain research. This collaboration strengthens the scientific excellence in this area, making Amsterdam Neuroscience one of the largest neuroscience communities in Europe.

Amsterdam Movement Sciences focuses on human movement, a key issue for today’s society, and approaches this in a broad interdisciplinary composition, covering from fundamental to clinical and from cellular to population research. The institute aims at being world leading in the field of interdisciplinary translational research on human movement and physical performance, and to disseminate its results to end-users so that society benefits optimally from our research results.

The mission of the Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity (AII) is to develop knowledge and expertise to prevent, diagnose or treat infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases and cancer. The need to focus and combine research activities in the research programs inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases and cancer immunology is crucial in order to identify common and novel immune correlates and pathways to work towards innovative treatment regimens.

AGEM unites the research at the Amsterdam UMC involved at the intersection of nutrition, microbiology, digestion, endocrinology and metabolism and aims to make an important contribution to improve gastrointestinal, endocrine and metabolic health and reduce the burden of diseases such as colorectal cancer (CRC), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diabetes mellitus (DM) and phenylketonuria (PKU).

The Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences (ACS) research institute aims to design novel treatment strategies to prevent and cure cardiovascular disease. We organized the cardiovascular research in Amsterdam in five Research Programs in which all aspects of translational research are embedded, covering research from the bench to the bedside and vice versa.

Cancer Center Amsterdam is an academic oncology center that aims to create groundbreaking new possibilities for patients with cancer. To achieve this, we integrate world-class research with healthcare and education to boldly push boundaries and discover new insights and opportunities. By making direct use of the knowledge obtained from our research, we can provide the best innovative and compassionate care for patients with cancer.

The Centre for Climate Change, Corporations and the Law conducts research in the field where Law, Corporations and Climate Change meet. Research in this field has become increasingly relevant due to the broad consensus that climate change forms a direct threat to humanity. While the Law has the purpose of protecting legitimate human interests and businesses play a key role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

The ACFL researchers have diverse expertise in the field of Dutch, comparative and European law of persons, family and juvenile law, and behavioral sciences. An important goal of ACFL is to pool this knowledge of its researchers and to create an optimal environment for the combination of classical legal national, comparative law and Multidisciplinary (empirical) research. Furthermore, ACFL aims to contribute to the scientific debate on the development of Dutch family law, as well as to the broad international discourse on the development of family & law in Europe and beyond.

The CICJ is an independent non-partisan university center dedicated to interdisciplinary academic research and education, policy analysis and debate on international crimes, international and transitional justice, as well as conceptual and institutional responses to mass atrocity. The Center’s staff is specialized in different fields of study, including international law, criminal law, criminology, (legal) psychology and anthropology, and in methods of social sciences research.

The aim is to track the multiplicity of complex developments in migration law that take place at the international, European and national levels. Research is conducted on diverse topics, as asylum and refugee law and family reunion law. This implies research into the human costs of border control, the intersection between the family and migration law, the role of the judiciary, the relation between (irregular) migration and the welfare state, the EU principle of mutual trust and the role of time in migration law.

The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology conducts research and provides education that focuses on fighting and preventing crime. Criminality and the fight against it are at the pinnacle of public interest. Not a day goes by without the media reporting of new crimes and of new penal cases. In daily life, a large group of professionals are involved in the combating and prevention of crime: a task for which proper and detailed knowledge of criminal law and criminology is indispensable. The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology makes an important contribution to this end, first and foremost, by offering various courses and education programs in the legal and socio-scientific fields. Furthermore, the Department contributes to the academic and social debate by publishing numerous scientific articles and delivering specialized lectures. The use of substantive and procedural criminal law in our society, taking also into account processes of globalization, digitalization and new technological developments, is at the forefront of our focus. The members of our Department also share their knowledge by participating in advisory committees, training professionals and through other secondary activities. The connection between academia, society and legal practice is thus ingrained in the functioning of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The center deals with systematic and comparatively focused research on urban issues. The activity of the Center for Urban History (CUH) is mainly focused on the study of urban life in the territory of Central and Central Eastern Europe. Urban society in general represents an ideal subject for analytical research into culture and societal transformations over time, urban issues must be seen as an interdisciplinary research field. CUH is thus not a historical workplace in the traditional sense, but a workplace using the methods and approaches of history, sociology, statistics, demography, cultural anthropology, etc. Research within the Center of Urban History is closely connected with the pedagogical activities of its members and external collaborators, who present the results of their research at lectures and regular seminar classes.

Asta Žukauskaitė research group is interested in synthesis and application potential of indoles and their bioisosteres. Her team members devote synthetic efforts towards naturally occurring, putative and nature inspired indolic compounds. They adapt and, if necessary, develop synthetic methodologies to prepare isotopically labelled internal standards of naturally occurring indoles (i.e., auxins, tryptophan metabolites, etc.), enabling their identification and quantification in plant and/or animal tissues, which is essential for physiological studies investigating their mode of action. Fluorescently labelled auxins are being developed for visualization of auxin transport, as well as tissue-specific and subcellular localization in planta, without the use of marker or reporter lines.

Biological activity as well as unique metabolic properties of prepared derivatives is evaluated in different bioassays, receptor assays, field experiments on various crops (corn, barley, wheat, rape seed, poppy seed) as well as different in vitro tissue-systems of various plat species, including ornamental, medicinal and endangered ones (in collaboration with different labs around the world, e.g. in South Africa or Belgium). New derivatives cross-talk with endogenous plant hormones (cytokinins, auxins, jasmonates, salicilates, abscisic acic…) is determined in the plant extracts using UHPLC-MS/MS as well as in situ by mass spectrometry imaging.

Another important area of the group’s activity is the synthesis of selected biologically active candidates in a larger scale and the solution of the subsequent transfer of technology from laboratory to semi-pilot and pilot scale. Cooperation with the commercial sphere is also very important, especially in the development of new technologies. The great result of the group’s work is, among other things, a number of granted international patents.