Amsterdam Young Academy

Recent Publication

Under pressure: a confession

Higher education and research are under pressure in the Netherlands. A now rather familiar and normalized frustration in Dutch academe.…

Evaluating the Starting Grants: An AYA perspective

The Amsterdam Young Academy launches a survey on the implementation of the Starting Grants. Assistant professors at the UvA and the VU are invited to share their experiences.

'Universiteiten, onttrek je aan die onzinnige internationale ranglijsten'

Opiniestuk AYA-leden in Het Parool

De UvA en VU moeten niet meer meedoen aan de internationale ranglijsten waarin de zogenaamd beste universiteiten op een rijtje worden gezet, stellen leden van de Amsterdam Young Academy in een opiniestuk in Het Parool.

AYA Quartet

How to navigate academia as an early-career researcher? AYA introduces to you the AYA Quartet game!

As young academics, we are facing multiple challenges. Not only are you supposed to develop your own research line, publish…

AYA Recognition & Rewards Award

Deadline 13 October 2025

AYA welcomes and supports the current attention to Recognition & Rewards in Dutch academia and is committed to furthering forms…

Doe het niet! AYA voorzitter biedt manifest aan in Den Haag

Op 25 maart 2025 debatteerde de Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal over de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op het Hoger Onderwijs. AYA voorzitter…

Members

Bahija Aarrass Faculty of Law VU

Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law

Gabriel Schwake Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities VU

Assistant Professor of Architecture History and Heritage Studies.

Leonie Schmidt Faculty of Humanities UvA

Assistant Professor Television Studies & Postdoctoral Researcher

Maria Weimer Faculty of Law UvA

Assistant Professor Public International and European Law

Naichuan SU ACTA

Assistant Professor Oral Public Health Department