17 April 2025

Every year, the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) welcomes ten new members. The university may soon nominate six candidates for the national selection round 2026. All Faculties and Interfaculty Institutes have been invited to suggest suitable candidates for consideration in the internal selection.

Are you a young scientist with a strong record and broad and committed vision on the (future of) science policy, science and society, interdisciplinarity, and internationalisation? Are you eager and do you have good plans to dedicate yourself to these themes over the next five years? And do you meet the conditions for nomination? I.e. have you obtained your PhD after 1 April 2016 (KNAW extension arrangement applies), do you have at least a good passive command of the Dutch language, and do you meet the profile description as outlined in the regulations (in particular Art. 3.1 and Art. 5)?

Then make your interest in DJA membership known now to your superior and director of research or scientific director! They can then consider you for the Faculty’s upcoming selection of the four candidates who may be nominated per Faculty or Interfaculty Institute to the rector. From these, the rector will then choose six candidates for nomination on behalf of our university to the KNAW/Young Academy.