Amsterdam Science Park spin-off winner of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards 2019

Marissa de Boer (UvA), Jill Coster van Voorhout (UvA) and Bernadette de Bakker (Amsterdam UMC), together with their teams, are the winners of the Science & Innovation Awards 2019. The three researchers receive 7.500 euros to further develop their ideas and bring them to the market.

In the category Beta, the Award was allocated to the “SusPhos process”, which addresses the phosphate issue. The research team of Marissa de Boer of the UvA’s Faculty of Science at Amsterdam Science Park is developing technology that aims to generate a circular phosphate economy by processing phosphate-containing waste into high quality products such as fertilizer and fire retardants.

Meet in this video more of the technology developed by Chris Slootweg, Marissa de Boer, Bas de Jong and Steven Beijer.  They started SusPhos and are pioneers in closing the phosphorus cycle.

Jury chair Gigi Wang, entrepreneur specialist and affiliated with Berkeley University, praised the high level of the 66 submissions, of which 9 finalists were selected. The finalists pitched their innovation live in front of an audience. According to Wang, the three winners show that the Netherlands are at the forefront of innovation: “value propositions based on interesting science and technology have already been created, which potentially have a major impact on society.”