The table shows from top to bottom grants awarded in 2024, running grants and completed grants, awarded in earlier years, including their financial envelope, running period and –if not the NWO- institute- the name of the Nikhef partner university via which the grant is administrated.
In 2024 the Nikhef partnership has obtained almost 25 M€ of grants, less than in 2023 (34 M€ – this figure was dominated by the Growth Fund award for ET), but still more than in 2022 (17 M€). Nikhef was particular successful in obtaining NWO grants (XL, M1, M2, VENI). Also an extra impulse (the ET-‘schaalsprong’) was received for the preparatory ET-activities.
| Leader | Title | Source | Period | Grant (k€) |
| Awarded | ||||
| Ferrari et al | The potential of the Higgs boson | NWO-ENW-XL | 2025-2030 | 3.146 |
| Hild et al | Enabling Einstein Telescope | NWO-ENW-XL | 2025-2030 | 3.155 |
| Boyarski et al | The Magnetic Universe | NWO-ENW-XL | 2025-2030 | 3.117 |
| Peitzmann | Enabling Digital Pixel Calorimetry – a new paradigm for particle detection in high energy physics | NWO-ENW-M1 | 2024-2028 | 370 |
| J. de Vries | The Mystery of the Missing Mixing Angle | NWO-ENW-M1 | 2024-2028 | 320 |
| Brenner | From CP-Even to CP-Odd: The Road Less Travelled in Higgs combinations | NWO-ENW-M1 | 2024-2028 | 337 |
| Kazu/De Bruyn | PITSTOP: PIcosecond Timing Silicon carbide sensors for Time-Of-flight Prototype | NWO-ENW-M2 | 2024-2028 | 799 |
| Van Beekveld | Power up the shower: new frontiers in the modeling of particle collisions | NWO-VENI | 2025-2028 | 310 |
| Bister | Search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays | NWO-VENI | 2025-2028 | 320 |
| Pang | Astronomy versus nuclear physics: Seeking dissonance between space and lab | NWO-VENI | 2024-2027 | 315 |
| Sas | Illuminating the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC | NWO-VENI | 2024-2027 | 320 |
| Van Bakel | SENSEIS: Ultra-sensitive microchip accelerometers for big science, seimsic monitoring and precision navigation | TKI-HTSM | 2025-2027 | 365 |
| Van Heijningen | CHiPS: Compact High-Performance Sensors | NGF: NextGen | 2025-2028 | 515 |
| Hild et al | ET R&D projects (5x) | NGF: ET-R&D | 2024-2027 | 1.188 |
| Schoorlemmer | Air shower interferometry to advance astroparticle physics | EU/ERC-CoG | 2025-2030 | 3.000 |
| Waalewijn | HeI: High energy Intelligence | EU/MSCA SE | 2025-2028 | 55 |
| Groep | EOSC EU Node | EU | 2024-2026 | 260 |
| Groep | EGI Federated Core Services | EGI | 2024-2026 | 56 |
| Bentvelsen et al | ET-schaalsprong | OCW/NWO | 2025-2027 | 7.020 |
| Sum | 24.968 | |||
| Running | ||||
| Verkerke et al | At the heart of the Higgs | NWO-ENW-XL | 2021-2026 | 2.964 |
| Snoek at al | Fast sensors and Algorithms for Space-time Tracking and Event Reconstruction (FASTER) | NWO-ENW-XL | 2023-2027 | 3.100 |
| Watts et al | Probing the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics. | NWO-ENW-XL | 2023-2027 | 3.103 |
| Hoekstra et al | Using cold molecules to find a gap in fundamental symmetries. | NWO-ENW-XL | 2023-2027 | 2.700 |
| Rojo/Verkerke | Fingerprinting the Higgs Sector with Effective Theories | NWO-ENW-M | 2020-2025 | 700 |
| Colijn/Postma | Searching for dark matter in the XENON waste | NWO-ENW-M | 2021-2025 | 580 |
| J. Steinlechner | Breaking the ice: Cold mirrors to discover the dark universe | NWO-ENW-K | 2021-2025 | 350 |
| Van Den Broeck et al | Finding the invisible: Localizing merging black holes through gravitational lensing | NWO-ENW-M2 | 2022-2027 | 700 |
| Bonga | Observing resonating black holes with gravitational waves | NWO-ENW-M | 2022-2026 | 350 |
| Borschevsky/Hoekstra | Probing Particle Physics with Polyatomic molecules | NWO-ENW-M2 | 2022-2026 | 700 |
| Koppenburg | Quarks uniting to form Dark Matter | NWO-M2 | 2024-2028 | 304 |
| Linde | Dutch contributions to the detector upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN | NWO-Roadmap | 2014-2028 | 15.240 |
| Bentvelsen | KM3NeT 2.0: Neutrino Science in the Deep Sea | NWO-Roadmap | 2019-2028 | 12.730 |
| Bentvelsen | Fuse: FUndamental e-infrastructure for SciencE | NWO-Roadmap | 2021-2025 | 5.955 |
| Van Bakel et al | Shivers from the deep Universe (LISA) | NWO-Roadmap | 2023-2032 | 2.994 |
| Freise et al | Expanding the new window upon our Universe: gravitational-wave discoveries with Advanced Virgo Plus | NWO-Winc | 2023-2028 | 2.688 |
| Caudill | Cortex: the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe | NWO-NWA-ORC | 2019-2025 | 399 |
| Colijn et al | One second after the Big Bang | NWO-NWA-ORC | 2021-2026 | 1.171 |
| Linde et al | The Dutch Black Hole Consortium (DBHC) | NWO-NWA-ORC | 2021-2026 | 1.032 |
| Green | Smoothing the Optical Bumps in the Road for Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors | NWO-VENI | 2022-2025 | 280 |
| Usachov | Search for spectacular signatures of light dark matter at LHCb | NWO-VENI | 2022-2025 | 280 |
| De Vries | The unbearable lightness of B-decaying | NWO-VENI | 2022-2025 | 280 |
| Van de Vis | Signs of the asymmetry between matter and antimatter | NWO-VENI | 2022-2025 | 280 |
| Graf | Unraveling the Secrets of the Number of Leptons | NWO-VENI | 2024-2027 | 268 |
| Caudill | A New Spin: The Next Generation of Gravitational-wave Searches for Merging Black Holes | NWO-VIDI | 2020-2025 | 800 |
| Dias | On the trail of new particles | NWO-VIDI | 2022-2027 | 800 |
| De Vries | The Little Neutral Particle that Could | NWO-VIDI | 2022-2027 | 800 |
| J. Steinlechner | Quiet mirrors to discover our Universe | NWO-VIDI | 2022-2027 | 800 |
| Vos | Solving Beautiful Puzzles | NWO-VIDI | 2023-2028 | 800 |
| Van Leeuwen | Microscopy of the Quark Gluon Plasma using high-energy probes | NWO-VICI | 2019-2025 | 1.500 |
| Hoekstra | Searching for missing antimatter with trapped molecules. | NWO-VICI | 2023-2028 | 1.500 |
| S. de Jong | Searching for Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources using a new Detector Concept in the Pierre Auger Observatory | NWO-G | 2018-2025 | 2.500 |
| Van Bakel | Photoreceivers for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna | NWO-M | 2022-2026 | 500 |
| Linde | Gravitational waves: a new road to fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology | NWO-ENW-G | 2019-2025 | 2.514 |
| P. de Jong | The Hidden Universe of Weakly Interacting Particles | NWO-ENW-G | 2019-2025 | 1.879 |
| Aaij | High-throughput GPU computing for New Physics searches with electrons in LHCb | NLeSC | 2021-2025 | 252 |
| Rojo | Unravelling Proton Structure with Hyperoptimised Machine Learning | NLeSC | 2021-2025 | 252 |
| Bouwhuis | A database-integrated KM3NeT solution for automated processing (DIKSAP) | NLeSC | 2023-2025 | 213 |
| PDP group | Contribution to the national e-infrastructure | SURF | 2019-2025 | 4.900 |
| Mow Lowry | Omnisens: Omni-directional interferometric inertial sensor | EU/ERC CoG | 2020-2025 | 2.536 |
| Hild | Speedmeter: Quantum back-action noise-free interferometry for improving the science capabilities of future gravitational wave observatories | EU/ERC AdG | 2021-2026 | 2.176 |
| J. Steinlechner | Revolutionizing Mirror Technology to Discover the Dark Universe | EU/ERC StG | 2.500 | |
| Van Leeuwen | STRONG2020: The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications | EU | 2019-2025 | 99 |
| Van den Brand | PROBES: Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics experiments. A cooperative Europe – United States – Asia effort. | EU | 2021-2025 | 46 |
| Van Beuzekom | AIDAInova | EU | 2021-2025 | 75 |
| Raven | SmartHEP | EU | 2022-2025 | 266 |
| Freise et al | Einstein Telescope Preparatory Phase | EU | 2022-2026 | 729 |
| Bouwhuis et al | KM3NeT-INFRADEV-2 | EU | 2023-2026 | 225 |
| Groep et al | SURF: GEANT Project GN5-1 | EU | 2023-2025 | 79 |
| P. de Jong | SENSE: Search for new physics and technological advancements from neutrino experiments at the high intensity frontier. | EU | 2023-2026 | 92 |
| J. Visser | Versterking ILOnet | EZK | 2022-2026 | 870 |
| Bentvelsen et al | Einstein Telescope – Nationaal Groeifonds | OCW-NGF | 2023-2028 | 26.915 |
| Sum | 115.766 | |||
| Completed | ||||
| Klaver | Uncovering the lepton generation gap: what’s the difference in their relationships? | NWO-VENI | 2021-2024 | 250 |
| Arnold | The Higgs boson’s beauty and charm | NWO-VENI | 2021-2024 | 250 |
| Ramos Buades | Do not fear to be eccentric! Unveiling the origin of binary black holes | NWO-VENI | 2023-2024 | 280 |
| Tuning | Antimatter matters: probing the differences to the bottom | NWO-VICI | 2017-2024 | 1.500 |
| Heijboer | Cosmic Neutrinos: a new tool for physics and astronomy | NWO-VICI | 2018-2024 | 1.500 |
| Van Den Broeck | Black holes and gravitational waves: A new route to cosmology and fundamental physics | NWO-VICI | 2019-2024 | 1.500 |
| Caudill | AHEAD2020: Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain | EU | 2019-2024 | 149 |
| Sum | 5.429 |
