NEWS
Highlights
10/2023
In autumn 2023 we ran experiments again for our pedestrian model (M4MA) as part of the Impact Grant.
03/2023
Release of the NEMO project documentary, directed and filmed by Julia Helmich.
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11/2023
HUBS lead Tessa Blanken was installed as member of the Amsterdam Young Academy.
10/2023
We started running experiments again! The data will be used to calibrate our pedestrian model for M4MA.
09/2023
Niels Vanhasbroeck joined our team! Niels is a PostDoc in the BE PREPARED Consortium and he will be working on further developing and calibrating our pedestrian model and then applying the model to a few worked out scenarios, such as office spaces or public transportation. Welcome Niels!
08/2023
We held a symposium on connecting pedestrian and epidemiological models at the University of Amsterdam. Find the full programme here.
06/2023
De Psycholoog published an article in which we talk about our work.
05/2023
We are part of the BePrepared Consortium led by Marijn de Bruin who just secured funding within the ZonMw grant programme on pandemic preparedness “BEhavioural and social sciences and pandemic PREPAREDness: the BePrepared Consortium” (€1.2M).
05/2023
We contribute to the ZonMw Programme on COVID-19 that is led by Quirine ten Bosch on “Contributions of indoor social spaces to overall SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Intersecting models with behavioral and epidemiological data for informed decision making” (€250k).
04/2023
We got an Interdisciplinary Data Science Project grant (€10k) by the Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre together with Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Bonne Zijlstra. With this grant we will implement the new methodologies that we developed for our BECON framework into JASP, an open-source statistics program, that allows other researchers to easily utilize these methodologies as well.
03/2023
Release of the NEMO documentary, directed by Julia Helmich. Watch the full movie here. 🍿
Collectively, the children donated 382.75 € to the Plastic Soup Foundation. We have donated this money as part of the experiment to help in their efforts to tackle plastic pollution at its source! You can learn more about the NEMO project here.
01/2023
We received an Impact Grant to link our pedestrian model to epidemiological models (€22.3k).