What we offer

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Calls for proposals

If you are a researcher employed at a Dutch university, UMC, or NWO/KNAW institute, you can apply to receive an in-kind investment of research software engineers to your research project.

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Training

Check out the various programming and technology workshops we have on offer for researchers and research support staff.

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Fellowship Programme

Do you have the ambition to promote or improve the use of research software within your organisation or field? Then apply to become a Fellow.

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News

eScience Center and the Open Science Week

Join us at the Open Science Week from Monday 14 September – Friday 18 September 2026

As fervent supporters of open science we will be attending several events during the 2026 Open…

Project Spotlight: CarboKitten.jl

The CarboKitten software models how tropical sediments and associated organisms grow under changing sea levels and environmental conditions, filling in the gaps in the fossil record of Earth’s…

We’ve left the blogging platform, Medium

Dear gentle eScience Center readers, 

In the spirit of open science, we decided to leave Medium as our blogging platform. 

Since 19 August, our blog is fully…

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Blog posts

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Research Software Engineers and generative AI

Shepp-Logan phantom model that captures the structure of a MRI scan

Using diffusion models for generating synthetic training data

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DReaMS Community Gathers Again in Utrecht: Building Momentum on Research Software Management

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Projects

Life Sciences

A Computational Answer to the Soaring MRI demand

The steady growing demand for MRI scans is leading to unsustainable financial, human and operational costs, mainly caused by the typically long exam times. MR-STAT is a fundamentally new paradigm in MRI, which delivers multiple quantitative MR parameters in a single scan of just 5 minutes.
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Social Sciences and Humanities

Processing archaeological sensor data from drones using machine learning

Archaeological remote sensing is of paramount importance to face challenges of climate change, agricultural intensification, and landscape development that are threatening buried archaeological remains. Drones using state-of-the-art sensor techniques strongly impact the possibilities of archaeologists by enabling them to trace ground and subsurface human activity in the past.
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Environment & Sustainability

Tipping of the Atlantic Ocean Circulation

The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is sensitive to freshwater perturbations such as the meltwater from ice sheets. Under continuing greenhouse gas emissions, it may undergo a transition to a collapsed state within a few decades, with potentially large climate impacts. In the eTAOC project we will develop general software to determine the probability of these type of transitions using rare event algorithms.
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Natural Sciences & Engineering

Comprehensive, fast, user-friendly and thoroughly validated open-source energy system planning framework

The overall objective of Mopo is to develop a validated, user-friendly, feature-rich, innovative and well-performing energy system modelling toolset to serve public authorities, network operators, industry and academia to plan sustainable and resilient energy systems in a cost-effective manner.
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