Supported by a Veni grant, Nicky Scheefhals aims to study a special type of synapse in which components of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses come together: mixed synapses.

Identifying when children are most at risk of being taken into care within youth protection programmes. Improving the quality of surgery with video analysis. The interaction between wind and vegetation for optimising the resilience of coastal dunes. Developing reliable algorithms for statistical learning with interactive decision science. These are four of the two hundred research projects by researchers who have been awarded a Veni grant. Each researcher will receive a maximum of 320,000 euros. The grant is an incentive for adventurous, talented and groundbreaking researchers to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.