AcademyKiss 2024

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The Academy Kiss is a prize from the AOb and goes every year on Valentine's Day to someone from the academic world who has courageously committed himself to a specific subject and therefore stood out.

Everyone professor

This year the theme is: 'Everyone professor' with which the association fights for equal rights within the academic world and against hierarchy. The Young Academy also asked here in September 2023 together with the unions during the opening of the academic year attention for.

Nominees

At the moment there are three nominees known. On February 14, the AOb the price.

Award ceremony

We will hold a webinar about the Academy Kiss on February 14, 2024 from 19:30 PM to 20:45 PM. The awards ceremony will take place during this meeting.

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Previous winners

Susanne Täuber, expert in the field of gender equality and bullying behavior at universities, won the Academy Kiss in 2023. That year the prize focused on academic freedom. Won in 2022 Nicole van Os de AcademieKus for its work to obtain permanent contracts for self-employed teachers. Professor Ingrid Robins won the prize in 2021 for her commitment to reducing the workload at universities. In 2020, social insecurity was in the spotlight. Mary Naezer won the prize for her alarming research into 'harassment at university'.

Marlen Lauffer

Marlen Lauffer, senior researcher at the Dutch Center for RNA Therapeutics, Leiden University Medical Center. Aside from her scientific work in genetic treatments for individuals with rare conditions, she is committed to helping early-career researchers.

Martin Skrodzki

Martin Skrodzki, associate professor at Delft University of Technology, studied mathematics and computer science in Germany and the United States. He is interested in research into the use of illustrations in mathematics, visualization of high-dimensional data, discrete geometry processing and in the interactions between mathematics and art.

Sanli Faez

Sanli Faez, assistant professor and physicist, investigates the movement of ions and electrons at the nanoscale at the Debye Institute. He is also co-founder of the Climate Help Desk and at the Young Academy he wants to contribute to developing a science policy that meets the needs of the circular society.

Arnold Lagendijk

Arnoud Lagendijk, professor of human geography at Radboud University, as chief administrator for the WO&O sector, is committed to the further implementation and rollout of the strategy for safer, more impactful, better valued and paid work in the academic sector.

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