The Dutch Neurofederation is announcing the PhD Thesis Prize for 2019 and 2020. Because the DNM was cancelled last year due to the corona pandemic, this year’s competition is open to all candidates who successfully obtained a doctorate degree from a Dutch university based on a neuroscience-related Ph.D. thesis dating either 2019 or 2020. The quality of the thesis will be assessed along the following criteria: Significance of the research, advancement to the neuroscience field, the originality of the approach, scope and depth of the thesis, the overall presentation of the thesis, and quality of the writing. Two selection committees of three members will advise the organizing committee who will decide the winner of the Ph.D. prizes. The selection procedure is confidential, and the results are not open for debate.
Deadline for submission of the nominations is Friday 23 April 2021, 23.00 CET. Candidates may nominate themselves or be proposed by their (co-)supervisor. Please send to the below address:
Both winners each receive €1,000 and in addition the 2020 winner will have the opportunity to give an online presentation about the findings in the thesis during the award ceremony at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (9–11 June 2021).
Prof. dr. Helmut Kessels
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Postbus 94246
1090 GE Amsterdam
Prof. dr. Helmut Kessels (h.kessels@uva.nl) and Prof. dr. Maarten Kole (m.kole@nin.knaw.nl).
The Dutch Neuroscience Meeting will continue its tradition of putting Top Science in the spotlight.
The aim is to present recent work performed by scientists, preferably in The Netherlands.
The work must have been published in 2019 or 2020 in a top journal and be of interest to a broad (Dutch neuroscience) audience.
A small committee will examine all proposals received. Papers will be selected using the provided information describing the importance of the research and the interest for a broad audience.
The first author of the best article will be invited to present her or his work at the Top Paper session scheduled on Thursday, 10 June 2021.
There will be a prize of 250 EUR.
You are strongly encouraged to submit your nominees to the Chairs of the DNM Top Paper Committee, Frank Meye and Daniel van den Hove, at d.vandenhove@maastrichtuniversity.nl before 23 April 2021.
The DNM Organising Committee always appreciates high-quality and well-designed posters. Therefore the DNM Organising Committee will hand out two poster prizes per poster session: a total of 6 poster prizes, 2 for Master students and 4 for Ph.D. students.
There will be 6 prizes of 150 EUR each.
Selection committee
The DNM Poster Award Committee will examine and judge all posters abstracts and pre-uploaded posters. During the DNM 21 a selected set of posters will be judged on scientific content as well as on their quality of presentation.
Award procedure
All poster prizes will be presented during the plenary on Thursday, 10 June, at 18:30.
The DNM Organising Committee finds it important that young talents will also have the opportunity to share their research with all the DNM participants. Therefore, the DNM Organising Committee made a plenary session available for one young talented scientist. The selected young talent will be honored with the DNM Young Talent Prize 2020 and 2021.
The winner receives 500 EUR.
Selection committee
The Young Talent Award Committee selected 3 potential candidates based on the following criteria: receiving a VENI (or similar) grant, publication record, experience abroad and other prizes received. These candidates were proposed to the DNM Programme Committee, who made the final decision regarding the winner of the Young Talent Prize 2020 and 2021. Thus, due to the cancellation of the meeting last year, this year 2 winners will be selected, one for 2020 (from the pool of 2019) and one from 2021 (from the pool of 2020).
Award procedure
Both winners of The Young Talent Prize will be awarded and The Young Talent Prize winner 2021 will be invited to make a presentation at the Young Talent session scheduled on Thursday, 10 July, at 18:30. This session will be followed by an award ceremony.
The Organising Committee announces the "Translational Neuroscience" prize to be awarded at the meeting in 2021. The aim of this prize is to acknowledge an individual or team of researchers in The Netherlands for recent innovative research that translates to an application beyond that of the laboratory. For instance, the wider application may be in clinical or technological fields or in education of the general public. The winner/winning team will be selected by members the Organising Committee (consisting of Jos Pickaerts and Corette Wierenga) from the proposals received in response to this call.
The proposal consists of the following documents, which have to be sent to: DNM21@azuleon.org, before 23 April 2021:
The winning individual or team will receive 500 EUR and will be invited to present the work at the award ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 10 June 2021.
The Dutch Neuroscience Meeting provides free participation to Master students who present a poster. Please check the Information page for details.