Executive summary

• The collective ‘community’ of the Amsterdam Neuroscience research institute is currently made up of 877 investigators. This includes 156 principal investigators, 93 faculty members & residents, 201 postdocs & research associates, and 427 PhD students. • Over the course of 2020, Amsterdam Neuroscience investigators acquired over 55 million euros in conditional funding. This included three Veni grants and three Vidi grants, as well as other major grants from Dutch agencies and the European Commission (EC), including three ERC grants. • This also included more than 23 million euros from non-profit (patient-oriented) organizations and around 13 million euros funding in contracted research from the biotechnology and pharma industry. • In 2020, a total of 1,315 refereed articles were published with 175 papers in the highest impact journals (impact factor > 10), and another 354 with a solid impact factor (> 5 < 10). • Of these 1,315 unique papers, 152 had ‘shared’ co-authorship (i.e. ‘bilocation’ affiliations). • Highlights throughout 2020 include the start of large consortia like the ‘Don’t be late’ consortium under supervision of Hanneke Hulst and the COVID-19 Biobank by

Diederik van de Beek. Christiaan Vinkers, Betty Tijms and Camiel Boon are our newest

Vidi laureates, in addition Jeanne Savage, Anita van Loenhoud and Aishu Parthasarathy received a Veni grant. ERC grants were awarded to Matthijs Brouwer, Martijn van den

Heuvel (both ERC Consolidator grants) and Rik Ossenkoppele (ERC Starting grant).

877 55M€ 1,315

156

principal investigators

93

faculty members & residents

201

postdocs & research associates

427

PhD students