Fellowship Programme

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The Netherlands eScience Center supports individuals who have the ambition to promote or improve the use of open and sustainable research software within their organization or discipline. Click on their photos below for more information about individual projects.  

Fellows

Ana Martinovici
Bastiaan van der Roest
Burcu Beygu
Claudiu Forgaci
Daniela Gawehns
Davide Spalla
Dörte de Kok
Ernestine Lahey
Jan de Wit
Jan Koster
Joshua Peterson
Maarten Hornikx
Mariken van der Velden
Pedro Hernandez-Serrano
Roelant Ossewaarde
Serkan Girgin
Süleyman Er
Ammar Ammar
Sven Baars
Diana Bocancea
Francien Bossema
Serena Defina
Joshua Dijksman​
Alexei Karas
Thomas Pronk
Gabriele Sarti
Raoul Schram
Mirko Signorelli
Meron Vermaas​
Katharina Waury
Funda Yildirim
Ankur Ankan
Anne Mickan
Eduard Klapwijk
Esther Plomp
Henk Cremers
Leonard Wee
Linda Nab
Manuel Garcia Alvarez
Mara Bialas
Minsi Li
Nicholas Judd
Peter-Paul Zwetsloot
Rosa Aguilar
Stefan Kirsch 
Stephanie van de Sandt
Stijn Peeters
Tina Rozsos
Vincent de Boer
William Riley
Yorben Lodema

About the Fellowship Programme

The eScience Fellowship Programme is aimed at members of the academic research community, working in the Netherlands, who are passionate to act as ambassadors for the use (and reuse) of research software. Research software can be any piece of code, script, package, tool, library, or programme written for the purpose of being used in research. The Fellowship Programme supports those who want to promote or improve the awareness and use of open and sustainable research software within their institute or academic community. In 2024-2025, we granted 20 applicants an eScience Center Fellowship.   

Each Fellow is expected to carry out activities to this end within the duration of their Fellowship (12 months). Any activities related to improving awareness or use of research software are considered. Applicants are also welcome to use the Fellowship to boost existing initiatives or activities that fit the purpose of the programme. Examples of relevant initiatives and activities include:  

  • Creating a tutorial around a research software package developed in-house.  
  • Creating a series of videos on good research software practices.  
  • Inviting speakers on the topic of sustainable research software for an interactive seminar.  
  • Running a hackathon where researchers can improve the reusability of their research software and exchange ideas.   
  • Setting up a discipline-specific community to exchange expertise about digital tools within the applicant’s field.   
  • Increasing the visibility and awareness of research software in the applicant’s field. 
  • Increasing the visibility, appreciation and wellbeing of researchers who write code in any way.   

The eScience Center and its Fellowship Programme support Open Science principles. We encourage applications to include activities that focus on open source software and aim to make their outcomes openly available to relevant communities.