The call for the 2025-2026 Distinguished Women Scientists Fund is open
In 2012 the Dutch Network of Women Professors created the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund, a travel grant (max. 1500 euro) for female postdocs - up to three years after their PhD and from all disciplines, working in the Netherlands - who wish to travel abroad as part of their research projects.
The LNVH created the travel grant at the request of prof. dr. Anne Cutler, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and emeritus professor of Comparative Language Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen. On the occasion of her retirement, she asked her colleagues and friends to forgo parting gifts and instead donate to the LNVH.
This year women scientists can once again benefit from this travel grant. Currently 6 applications are rewarded per call.
Regulations and application form
Deadline for submitting applications is December 15, 2025. The outcome will be communicated to the applicants in February 2026. For detailed rules and regulations, as well as the application form, please refer to the linked documents below.
In case of questions, please contact the LNVH bureau via 030 600 1361 | info@lnvh.nl.
Rules and conditions
Application form
DWS Fund – Laureates
2024–2025
Laureates: Bodine Gonggrijp, Elisa D’Alessandro, Marina Meester, Carolin Gaiser, Isabel Weinhäuser, Javiera Sabina Garcia Meneses, Lieke van der Veer.
2023–2024
Laureates: Rocio Arreguín Campos, Aranka Viviènne Ballering, Lotte van Burgsteden, Lilith Lee, Sangita Swapnasrita, Bárbara Varassi Pega, Margot van de Weijer.
2022–2023
Laureates: Annelisa Cornel, Eefje de Bont, Nerea Arrarte Terreros, Christel van Eck, Loreta Muscarella, Rozanne Versendaal.
2021–2022
Laureates: Jeewanthi Gangani Sirisena, Kelly de Ligt, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Olya Kudina, Renée Verdiesen (taken over by Mehrnoosh Shokouhi), Titia Geertje Meijer.
2020–2021
Laureates: Luisa Schneider, Chiara Sironi, Oihane Abiega, Ona Ilozumba, Noortje Kloos, Fabiola Müller, Charlotte Bekker.
2019
Laureates: Anna Schueth, Kaya Peerdeman, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Maria Luce Lupetti, Sarah Burke, Lieke Melsen.
2018
Laureates: Lorena De Vita, Whitney Freeze, Anne Marije Kaag, Hannah Nohlen, Eva van Roekel, Masha van der Sande.
2017
Laureates: Miranda Bloem, Fleur Bouwer, Anke Klein, Mandy Lauw.
2016
Laureates: Jessica Alleva, Camille Creyghton, Mathilde Hagens, Janet Vos.
2015
Laureates: Cathrin Canto, Nikki Damen, Tessa Diphoorn, Fenneke Sysling.
2014
Laureates: Hieke Huistra, Laura Mann, Annelieke Roest, Annelies Veraart.
2012 Anne Cutler
Laureates: Susanne Brouwer, Caroline Junge, Anja Schüppert.