The Dutch Neurofederation Ph.D. Thesis Prize was created by the board of the Dutch Neurofederation and is meant as an encouragement for new talented neuroscientists. The prize is presented annually during the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (DNM).
The winner receives an amount of 1000 EUR to be spent as one sees fit and, in addition, he/she will receive travel costs and waived registration fee to present the thesis during a talk at the DNM.
The competition is open to candidates with a doctorate degree from a Dutch university dating 2017, with a neuroscience-oriented Ph.D. thesis. Candidates must be member of the Neurofederation and may either apply themselves or be proposed by their (co-)supervisor. Requirements: a letter of recommendation by the candidate's (co-)supervisor, 3 hard-copies of the thesis, each presented with the letter of recommendation (see addresses below), and a PDF version of the thesis.
The quality will be assessed along the following criteria:
Award procedure
A selection committee will advise the board of the Dutch Neurofederation to decide the winner of the Ph.D. Thesis prize. The selection procedure is confidential and the results are not open to debate. The name of the winner is announced during the presentation ceremony. Check also the online programme.
Time frame
Prof. Dr Helmut Kessels
h.w.h.g.kessels@uva.nl, CNS, SILS (room C3.268), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam
Prof. Dr Maarten H.P. Kole
m.kole@nin.knaw.nl, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (room R1-134), Meibergdreef 47, 1105BA Amsterdam
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 2017 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, 7 June 2018.
There will be a prize of 250 EUR.
You are strongly encouraged to submit your nominees to the Chair of the DN Top Paper Committee, Prof. Dr. A. Kalsbeek, by e-mail (a.kalsbeek@nin.knaw.nl) before 13 April 2018.
The DNM Organising Committee always appreciates high-quality and well-designed posters. Therefore the DNM Organizing Committee will hand out three poster prizes per poster session: a total of 6 poster prizes. Each session 2 poster prizes will be awarded to Ph.D. students and 1 poster prize to a master student.
There will be 6 prizes of 150 EUR each.
Selection committee
The DNM Poster Award Committee will examine and judge all posters abstracts. During the DNM 18 a selected set of posters will be judged on scientific content as well as on their quality of presentation.
Award procedure
For the poster session on Thursday 7 June 2018, the poster prizes will be presented during drinks at the poster session. For the poster session on Friday 8 June 2018, the poster prizes will be presented during the Plenary session, at 16:00.
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 2018.
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 being awarded by other prizes. These candidates were proposed to the DNM Programme Committee, who finally decided on the winner of the Young Talent Prize 2018.
Award procedure
The Young Talent Prize winner will be invited to make a presentation at the Young Talent session scheduled on Friday, 8 June 2018. This session will be followed by an award ceremony.
The Organising Committee announces the "Translational Neuroscience" prize to be awarded at the meeting in 2018. 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 Marloes Henckens, Judith Homberg and Corette Wierenga) from the proposals we receive in response to this call.
The proposal consists of the following documents, which have to be send to: DNM18@azuleon.org, before 27 April 2018:
The winning individual or team will receive 500 EUR and will be invited to present the work at the Top Science session scheduled for 7 June 2018.
The Dutch Neuroscience Meeting provides free day passes to selected Master students who present a poster. Please check the Information page for details.