About Kluyver prize
The jury received 24 nominations for the 2025 Kluyver prize. The award ceremony will take place on May 11, 2026, during the Annual Scientific Meeting of Nikhef (this time at Nikhef).
The jury received 23 nominations for the 2024 Kluyver prize. The award ceremony took place during
the Nikhef anual meeting, on May 19 in Nijmegen.
The jury report was presented by Sijbrand de Jong and can be found here
The jury received 18 nominations for the 2023 Kluyver prize. The award ceremony took place
on May 13, 2024 at Nikhef-Amsterdam. The jury report can be found here .
The jury received 12 nominations for the 2022 Kluyver prize. The prize was awarded
on May 15, 2023 during the NIKHEF Annual meeting
Here is the report of the jury.
All summaries by the winners since 2010 (the first year the prize was awarded) can be found here They are very interesting to read!
The Nikhef web-page with all Ph. D. theses (footnote) is here.
The winners so far:
16. Determining the Higgs boson width in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS experiment, Ashley Ellen McDougall (geb. te North Dandenong, Australië), D.o.d. 27 Nov. 2024
15. Getting to the Point. First cosmic neutrino source search with the KM3NeT/ARCA detector, Rasa Simone Muller, (geb. te Haarlem), D.o.d. 11 July 2023
14. Quantum Effects on a Planetary Scale. The First Neutrino Oscillation Measurement with KM3NeT/ORCA, Lodewijk Jurriaan Nauta (geb. te Amsterdam), D.o.d. 8 Jun. 2022
13. Seismic and Newtonian noise modeling for Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope, Maria Karolina Margit Bader (geb. te München, D), D.o.d. 9 februari 2021
12. Myth busting precision physics, Melissa Corona van Beekveld (geb. te Oss), D.o.d. 7 september 2020
11. A Spark in the Dark, Erik Hogenbirk (geb. te Alkmaar), D.o.d. 8 maart 2019
10-1. Substantiating the void, Jeroen Meidam (geb. te Oss), D.o.d. 7 februari 2018
10-2. Running in the early Universe : UV sensitivity of single-field inflationary models, Jacopo Fumagalli (geb. te Cremona, I), D.o.d. 25 oktober 2018
9. Character Profile of the Higgs Boson, Lydia Brenner (geb. te Utrecht), D.o.d. 22 september 2017
8. Discovery of rare B decays, Siim Tolk (geb. te Tallinn, EST), D.o.d. 8 april 2016
7. The Higgs Boson, Stefan Gadatsch (geb. te Hachenburg, D), D.o.d. 26 juni 2015
6. The color of X rays, Enrico Junior Schioppa, (geb. te Rome, I), D.o.d. 5 december 2014
5. Effective Theories in Cosmology, Sander Johannes Nicolaas Mooij (geb. te Haarlem), D.o.d. 24 september 2013
4. Ageing and the Decay of Beauty, Daan van Eijk (geb. te Spijkenisse), D.o.d. 15 okober 2012
3. The Geodesic Deviation Method and Extreme Mass Ratio Systems, Gideon Koekoek (geb. te Amsterdam), D.o.d. 15 december 2011
2. Searching for the Top, Alexander Dimos Doxiadis (geb. te München, D), D.o.d. 7 juli 2011
1. Search for a Strange Phase in Beautiful Oscillations, Tristan Arnoldus du Pree (geb. te Rotterdam), Date of defence, 22 oktober 2010
Jury members:
Jorgen D'Hondt (ex officio, director Nikhef, from 2024); Stan Bentvelsen (from 2024); Jos Engelen (chair); Karel Gaemers (former chair); Walter Hoogland; Sijbrand de Jong (from 2022); Frank Linde; Peter de Witt Huberts; Pieter van Braam van Vloten (secretary).
Former members:
Ger van Middelkoop (untill 2013); Bert Diddens (untill 2018); Teus van Egdom (former secretary).
Rules ('reglement') in Dutch here