The nomination has opened for two important awards: the Overijssel PhD award and the prof. De Winter award (female U(H)D’s), which will be officially presented during the Dies Natalis (28 November 2025). The deadline to submit nominations is the 20th of August, 2025. Let's use this chance to spotlight our colleagues!
Overijssel PhD Award
The Overijssel PhD award is the award for a doctoral thesis of outstanding academic quality and/or social relevance that can be considered as the start of a promising academic career. The Overijssel PhD Award is part-funded by the Province of Overijssel and has a value of €5,000. For further guidance on the assessment criteria, see the attachment below. Additional to the criteria the jury also like to receive the most recent contact information such as (mobile) phone number and email of the nominated PhD student.
Per Faculty we are allowed to nominate 1 excellent PhD thesis that was defended in the year 2024.
If promotors/co-promotors of your department would have a candidate, please send a complete submission following the criteria (attached) by email to our research support team, research-support-bms@utwente.nl before August 20th. If selected, the faculty will do the final submission.
Professor de Winter Award
The Professor de Winter award is for the best internationally refereed conference contribution or article in an internationally refereed academic journal, written by a woman assistant or associate professor. For the award, women assistant or associate professors can nominate their international articles or conference contributions.
Although female U(H)Ds can nominate international articles or conference contributions themselves, the professor of the group in which the academic is active must draw up a supporting statement for the nomination that is related to the assessment criteria. So, please stimulate your colleagues to submit their excellent research output!
Different from the Overijssel PhD award, nominations (plus supporting statement) for the prof. de Winter award can be sent directly (before September 11th) to Astrid de Graaf a.degraaf@utwente.nl
For both awards, we particularly encourage submissions that show a clear link with our BMS research focus. Please note the jury consists of a small advisory group of representatives of the different UT faculties and is chaired by the rector.
