Winners of the Innovative Research Incentives Scheme 2000-2001
| Who | Research | Faculty | Year |
 | Kjeld Eikema is researching attosecond electron dynamics in biomolecules and fundamental physics in atoms, with the help of intense, ultrafast frequency comb lasers. | SCIENCE
| 2000 |
 | Reyer Gerlagh is researching international dimensions of environmental policy, climate economics and concepts of sustainability, natural resources and economic growth.
| SBE
| 2000 |
 | Marcel van der Heijden is researching the influence of three of the most important groups of micro-organisms on plant diversity and the ecosystem.
| SCIENCE
| 2000 |
 | Fred van Lieburg is researching the history of religion in the Netherlands from the 16th-century Reformation until the compartmentalization of society in the late 19th century. | FGW
| 2000 |
 | What preferences, beliefs, music and hobbies does an individual acquire during the course of his existence? Sander Koole is researching this so-called internalization process. | FGB | 2000 |
 | Gijs Wuite is researching the physics of DNA protein interactions and biomechanical characteristics of viral capsids and cells. | SCIENCE
| 2000 |
 | Hans Renssen is researching escaping methane that is said to be worsening the greenhouse effect and changing ocean currents. | SCIENCE
| 2000 |
 | Barbara Bakker is analysing differential equations: quantitative insights into the adaptive responses of intracellular networks. | SCIENCE
| 2001 |
 | August den Hollander is researching the life of Jesus. The origin, dissemination and reception of a Middle Ages text tradition in western Europe. | FRT
| 2001 |
| J. Försteris researching the motivation-cognition interface (the conversion of information): how do needs and objectives influence what we think? | FGB | 2001 |
 | Johan de Winter is researching the function of the Fanconi anemia pathway (maintains genomic stability cell repetition). | VUmc | 2001 |