DWSF Laureates 2015
The LNVH board is pleased to announce the 2015 Distinghuished Women Scientists Fund. This travel grant allows the laureates to travel abroad for their research.
Cathrin Canto is a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam. She is interested in unraveling how neuronal firing patterns translate into learning and memory mechanisms.
Nikki Damen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht. Her area of research is medication safety, more specifically the “Safety-II perspective”, where the focus lies on what happens when healthcare processes go right: what do these processes look like and what can we learn from them?
Tessa Diphoorn is assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. She will conduct preliminary fieldwork on the daily operations of the Independent Police Oversight Authority in Nairobi, Kenya.
Fenneke Sysling is a postdoctoral researcher at the Descartes Centre History of Science, Utrecht University. She is studying the history of self quantification. Her research is focused on the way individuals in 19th-century started to think about themselves through phrenology, the study of the protuberances of the skull based on the belief that they reveal character and mental capacity.