Aim and Scope
Amsterdam Science aims to be a platform that displays the enormous creativity, quality, diversity and enthusiasm of the Amsterdam scientific community. It offers early career scientists (MSc students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows), as well as more advanced researchers, the opportunity to communicate their latest and most interesting findings to a broad audience.
We cover all active research areas in Amsterdam (ranging from mathematics, physics and chemistry to earth, life and environmental sciences) and highlight research from both universities (UvA and VU), as well as the various research institutes in our nation’s capital. The magazine is distributed widely across Amsterdam. In addition, it is sent out to more than 500 contacts in academia, industry and government. More details can be found in our mission statement that appeared as the editorial of the first issue.
Submission Process
If you are interested in showcasing your work in Amsterdam Science, this is how to proceed:
Step 1.
Fill out the online preliminary submission form. Your contribution will then be discussed in our next editorial board meeting. Please note, that the scientific content of submissions should already have been validated (e.g. by publication in a peer-reviewed journal or in a successfully examined MSc or PhD thesis).
Step 2.
If your preliminary submission is approved, you will be assigned a first editor (usually someone from a related field), who will provide initial feedback and guide you through the remainder of the submission process. You can now begin to prepare your final submission. Please take into consideration that your final story will be read by a broad and diverse audience! As a result, each final submission may undergo several iterations (between the author, the first editor and a second editor from an unrelated field).
The writing guidelines can be found here.
Step 3.
Your final submission is discussed in an editorial board meeting. Once approved, your contribution will appear in the next issue of Amsterdam Science!
Contact
Our editors are always scouting for new content. Please note that we are not only looking for written pieces, but also for attractive, high-resolution images that tell a story in and by themselves (especially for our cover and centrefold pages).
Questions? Ideas? Suggestions? The editorial board can be reached at amsterdamscience@gmail.com.
Editorial board
The editorial board consists of MSc students, PhD candidates and other researchers from the science community in Amsterdam:
Editors in chief
Michel Haring, Professor of Plant Physiology, UvA
Sabine Spijker, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, VU
Editorial board
Renée van Amerongen, Associate professor Molecular Cytology, UvA
Annike Bekius, PhD researcher, research institute MOVE, VU
Laura Bohorquez, PhD researcher Molecular biology, UvA
Sarah Brands, PhD researcher Astrophysics, UvA
Jop Briët, Senior researcher, Algorithms and Complexity group, CWI
Federica Burla, PhD researcher, Biological Soft Matter group, AMOLF
Maria Constantin, PhD researcher Plant Pathology, UvA
Nadine Böke, Advisor Science Communication, Faculty of Science UvA
Mohit Dubey, Postdoc researcher Axonal Signalling Group, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Nitish Govindarajan, PhD researcher Computational Chemistry, UvA
Jans Henke, PhD researcher Physics, UvA
Evangelos Kanoulas, Assistant Professor (tenured), Informatics Institute, UvA
Céline Koster, PhD researcher Clinical Genetics, AMC
Francesco Muti, Assistant professor Biocatalysis, UvA
Adriaan Schiphorst, Master’s student Physics, UvA
Cristina Sfiligoj, PhD researcher, Nanolayers group, ARCNL
Magdalena Solà, Master’s student Physics UvA and Research internship, Photonic materials group, AMOLF
Ted Veldkamp, PhD researcher Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU
Huub Terra, PhD researcher, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), VU
Heleen Verlinde, Amsterdam Science Magazine manager
Esther Visser, PhD researcher Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), VU
Iraklis Vretzakis, Master’s student Neurosciences, VU
Partners and friends
Would your research institute like to support Amsterdam Science magazine? Become partner or friend of Amsterdam Science magazine! For more information, please send an email to: amsterdamscience@gmail.com.
Partners of Amsterdam Science magazine:
• Have a say in the editorial processes and choices of the magazine
• Get optimized access to the submission system for their own contributions to the magazine, as ever based on interesting findings in their published research
• Are visible by means of their name and logo in the magazine and on the website
• Receive 250 magazines per issue in hard copy (2 issues per year)
Becoming a partner of Amsterdam Science involves an annual fee of € 1.250 for 2016.
Friends of Amsterdam Science magazine:
• Receive 50 magazines per issue in hard copy (2 issues per year)
Becoming a friend of Amsterdam Science involves an annual fee of € 500 for 2016.
The following research institutes and universities are partner or friend of Amsterdam Science magazine:
AMOLF
AMOLF Institute is one of the research laboratories of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Research area: complex molecular and materials systems.
ARCNL
The Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ACRNL) is a collaboration between ASML, FOM, NWO, UvA and VU. With the first research groups already in place, the AMOLF-based collaboration will become an independent institute in 2015, growing into a centre of expertise consisting of 100 researchers. Research area: Fundamental physics for current and future key technologies in nanolithography, primarily for the semiconductor industry.
CNCR
The Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR) generates integrated research programs from genes to behavior, each combining mouse and human studies. It operates as an expertise center of the Amsterdam Neuroscience on the VU campus.
CWI
The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands, part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Research area: mathematics and computer science. CWI concentrates on five broad, societally relevant themes: software, information, life sciences, logistics and energy.
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Research and education areas: physics, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, logic, biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics; life sciences and computer science. Research and education at UvA Faculty of Science are done in strong collaboration with the Faculty of Science of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Research and education areas: computer sciences, physics and astronomy, chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences, mathematics, earth sciences, ecological sciences and various areas of the life sciences (e.g., biomedical science, neuroscience). Research and education at the Faculty of Science are done in strong collaboration with the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.