I was thrilled to find out last week (around the time of the big Gravitational Wave detection!!) that I was awarded a Vici grant from the Dutch National Research Organization (NWO), basically 1.5 million Euros to hire 3 PhD students and 2 postdocs over the coming 5 years! The title of my proposal was ““From micro- to megascales: understanding how black holes shape the local universe”, and focuses on how black holes release energy from stuff they gravitationally capture, and dump it back into their surroundings. There’s a nice description on the press release from our science faculty here.
So anyway we had our annual PhD recruiting last week and I’m happy to say I had some great candidates to choose from, from all over the world, for the first two PhD student positions! We have just made the offers so hopefully an update soon of the first new members of the group to come in the Fall!
