PhD Thesis Award

At our Winter Conference, we award a prize for the PhD thesis that made the most outstanding contribution to scientific knowledge in the field of Brain and Cognition. Eligible candidates have obtained a PhD degree from any Dutch university/institute in the roughly two-year time span between the deadlines of the previous and current thesis awards. Candidates can self-nominate or be nominated by their (co)promotor. The submitted PhD thesis should be original work in the field of Brain and Cognition or a related field (i.e. work in fields that would typically be suitable for submission for poster and/or oral presentations at the NVP conference).

Call 2025: To be announced.

NVP PhD Thesis Award 2023: Dr. Cas Coopmans has been awarded the NVP PhD Thesis prize for his dissertation ‘Triangles in the brain: The role of hierarchical structure in language use’ which he defended at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.