Dutch researchers among winners of European Young Investigators Award
05 Sep 2007
The European Science Foundation has selected 20 excellent young researchers, each of whom is to be awarded the European Young Investigators Award, a grant of a maximum of 1.2 million euros to be spent on research over a five-year period. Among the winners are three young Dutch researchers.
This year’s Dutch recipients are organic chemist Dr Jeroen Cornelissen (1972), who wants to use virus balls as nano-reactor chambers, historian Oscar Gelderblom (1971) who is initiating a study of European financial markets prior to the Industrial Revolution and Nynke Dekker (1971) who is researching molecular motors to manipulate DNA and RNA.
In the four years since the award has been presented, 15 of the 95 grants have gone to Dutch researchers. This makes the Netherlands the second largest recipient, with Germany, with only France receiving more (18).