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Last June the news emerged that Nauta is the first UT scientist to receive the Stevin Prize. NWO has been awarding this prize since 2018, as a counterpart to the Spinoza Prize. Both awards carry a sum of 1.5 million euros, with the Spinoza Prize focusing on fundamental issues and the Stevin Prize on social impact.
To invest
Nauta, professor of Integrated Circuit Design at the EEMCS faculty, is an expert in designing circuits on chips. He wants to invest the premium to further his department and field. The money will go, among other things, to its lab infrastructure and profiling of the field. In addition, the professor wants to ‘invest in curiosity-driven research’. ‘Chip design research is often demand-driven, where we work closely with industry. At the same time, our research provides us with many new insights that may be promising, but finding that potential is more complex.’
Other laureates
Last night, research funder NWO awarded two Spinoza Prizes and two Stevin Prizes. In addition to Nauta, Corien Prins received a Stevin Prize from Tilburg University. The Spinoza Prizes went to professors Toby Kiers (Vrije Universiteit) and Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam).