fellowships & awards
NWO Open Competition Domain Science - KLEIN
2020-2024

Open Programme Geo- and Biosphere (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2012-2017

Dr. J.L. Dobberke Grant (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, KNAW)
2011

Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Grant (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, KNAW)
2011

Open Programme Geo- and Biosphere (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2010-2014

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
2009

Dutch Zoology Prize 2008 (Royal Dutch Zoological Society, KNDV)
2008

Open Programme Geo- and Biosphere (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2006-2010

Buschbaum Prize for Excellence in Microphotography 2005 (American Microscopial Society)
January 2005

Open Programme Geo- and Biosphere (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2005-2008

Poster award, Annual meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology (Nederlandse Vereniging van Gedragsbiologie)
November 2003

Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Grant (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, KNAW)
2003

PULS Grant (NWO Post doc Career Stimulation Programme, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2002 - 2005

Hendrik Casimir - Karl Ziegler Research Stipend (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, KNAW)
2001 - 2002

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Stipend
2000 - 2001

Jessup-McHenry Award (National Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia)
1999

VSB bursary (Dutch bank bursary to promote continued academic studies abroad)
1995 - 1997