About the Faculty
Organisation of the Faculty of Science
Educational organization
Jeanine Meerburg is responsible for the educational policy of the Faculty of Science. The education provided by the Faculty is organised in an Undergraduate School of Science and four Master's Schools, namely for Sciences, for Life and Earth Sciences, for Informatics and the Amsterdam Professional School of Science.
The Education Section of the Office of Academic Affairs is responsible for supporting policy development and for the operational management of the educational organization. The Amstel Institute, where research in the field of didactics and education technology is carried out, is also a part of the educational organization.
Research organization
The Dean is responsible for the research policy of the Faculty of Science, and is supported in this field by the Head of Research, Office of Academic Affairs. Research at the Faculty of Science is organized in ten research institutes, each of which carries out its own scientific research programme which is determined every four or five years. Furthermore, the research institutes carry out research projects for external institutions such as e.g. the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO), various Ministries, the European Union and various business ventures. Each research programme and research project is headed by a professor. The Faculty employs about 100 regular professors (usually with a full-time appointment) and 40 professors by special appointment (who are generally assigned to the university for about one day per week).