(New) KNAW Christiaan Huygens Science Award for doctoral dissertations

The Christiaan Huygens Science Prize honors a young researcher who has made an innovative contribution to space sciences, mathematics or physics in a dissertation. Any researcher at a Dutch university who has defended a dissertation in the relevant discipline in the past three years (the current year and the full three calendar years preceding it) can be nominated for the prize. The laureate receives a bronze statue by Christiaan Huygens and a cash prize of 10,000 euros.

The following persons can nominate a candidate for the prize: deans of faculties of Dutch universities; directors of research institutes; directors of research schools.