Prizes and Achievements
Awards, grants and honours received by members of the Department of Astrophysics:
| Year | Department Member | Honour or award |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Heino Falcke | Balzan Prize |
| 2023 | Katie Mulrey | KHMW Langerhuizen Bate Award |
| 2023 | Katie Mulrey | RNVH Jubileum Prize |
| 2023 | Anne Inkenhaag | IMAPP PhD Award for Scientific Communication |
| 2023 | Peter Jonker | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2023 | Heino Falcke | NWO- Groot Grant |
| 2023 | Heino Falcke | Herschel Medal |
| 2023 | Monika Mościbrodzka | Eddington Medal |
| 2022 | Heino Falcke | "BlackHolistic"ERC Synergy Grant |
| 2022 | Raquel Fraga-Encinas | Early Career Award |
| 2022 | Monika Mościbrodzka | Dutch Research Council (NWO) Athena Award |
| 2022 | Sara Issaoun | Christiaan Huygens Prize |
| 2022 | Marc Klein Wolt | Willem de Graaff Prize |
| 2022 | Conny Aerts | Kavli Prize |
| 2021 | Heino Falcke | Amaldi Medal |
| 2021 | Sara Issaoun | L'Oréal NL Women in Science Rising Talent Award |
| 2021 | Conny Aerts | Elected Foreign Member KNAW |
| 2021 | Heino Falcke | Robert M. Petrie Prize Lecture |
| 2021 | Heino Falcke | Amaldi Medal of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation |
| 2021 | Heino Falcke | National Academy of Sciences Henry Draper Medal |
| 2021 | RU EHT team | Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award |
| 2020 | Martyna Chruslinska | RU Christine Mohrmann Stipend |
| 2020 | Conny Aerts | FWO Excellence Prize |
| 2020 | Jordy Davelaar | EHT Outstanding PhD Award |
| 2020 | Sara Issaoun+Andre Young+Michael Janssen | EHT Early Career Award |
| 2020 | Heino Falcke | Einstein Medal |
| 2020 | RU EHT team | Rossi Medal |
| 2020 | RU EHT team | RU Team Science Award |
| 2019 | Sara Issaoun | RU Christine Mohrmann stipend |
| 2019 | Heino Falcke | Academy medal, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2019 | Heino Falcke | Oxford University Hintze lectureship |
| 2019 | RU EHT group | Breakthrough prize |
| 2019 | MeerLICHT en BlackGEM teams | Prof. Dr. Jan Troosterprijs |
| 2019 | Monika Moscibrodzka | Simons Emmy Noether Fellow |
| 2018 | Sara Issaoun | RU Study Prize for best MSc thesis |
| 2018 | Jörg Hörandel | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2018 | Conny Aerts | European Astronomical Society 2018 Woltjer Lecture |
| 2018 | Marijke Haverkorn | Faculty of Science Education Award |
| 2017 | Marijke Haverkorn | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2017 | Patricia Schmidt | NWO-VENI grant |
| 2016 | RU GW group | Gruber Cosmology Prize |
| 2016 | RU GW group | Special Breakthrough prize |
| 2016 | Samaya Nissanke | NWO-VIDI grant |
| 2016 | Gijs Nelemans | NWO-VICI grant |
| 2016 | Samaya Nissanke | NWO Top grant |
| 2016 | Andrew Levan | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2015 | Heino Falcke | RU Hermesdorfprijs |
| 2015 | Payaswini Saikia | RU Frye Stipendium |
| 2015 | Thomas Kupfer | ZTF Fellowship |
| 2015 | Conny Aerts | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2015 | Peter Jonker | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2014 | Anna Nelles | Cum Laude distinction PhD award |
| 2014 | Sjoert van Velzen | Hubble Fellowship |
| 2014 | Stijn Buitink | ERC Starting Grant |
| 2014 | Heino Falcke | Member KNAW |
| 2013 | Heino Falcke | ERC Synergy Grant |
| 2013 | Marianne Heida | RU Frye Stipendium |
| 2013 | Marijke Haverkorn | Member KNAW Young Academy |
| 2013 | Heino Falcke | Member Academia Europaea |
| 2013 | Harry Balster | Radboud University Medal |
| 2013 | Marijke Haverkorn | Member KNAW Young Academy |
| 2012 | Elmar Körding | NWO-VIDI grant |
| 2012 | Conny Aerts | Francqui Prize 2012 |
| 2012 | Conny Aerts | Member Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium |
| 2011 | Sivia Toonen | RU Frye Stipendium |
| 2011 | Evert Glebbeek | NWO-VENI grant |
| 2011 | Gijs Nelemans | Professorship KU Leuven |
| 2011 | Heino Falcke | NWO Spinoza Prize |
| 2011 | Marijke Haverkorn | Joliot-Curie Fellowship |
| 2010 | Conny Aerts | Honorary Fellow of the RAS |
| 2009 | Haili Hu | Cum Laude distinction PhD award |
| 2009 | Marijke Haverkorn | NWO-VIDI grant |
| 2009 | Clancy James | NWO Rubicon grant |
| 2009 | Haili Hu | NWO Rubicon grant |
| 2009 | Jan Kuijpers | Decorated Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion |
| 2009 | Paul Groot | Member KNAW Young Academy |
| 2008 | Haili Hu | RU Frye Stipendium |
| 2008 | Conny Aerts | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2008 | Heino Falcke | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2008 | Gijs Nelemans | NWO-VIDI grant |
| 2006 | Søren Larsen | NWO-VIDI grant |
| 2006 | Floris Hammer | Huygens Talent grant |
| 2006 | Gijs Roelofs |
NWO Rubicon grant |
| 2006 | Heino Falcke | Miller Visiting Professorship, UC Berkeley |
| 2005 | Else van den Besselaar | RU Frye Stipendium |
| 2005 | Heino Falcke | Academy Prize from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2004 | Gijs Nelemans | NWO-VENI grant |
| 2003 | Conny Aerts | 26th Prix Paul& Marie Stroobants, Academie Royale Belgique |
| 2002 | Paul Groot | EU-Descartes Prize (Gamma-Ray Bursts) |
| 2002 | Paul Groot | NWO-VIDI grant |