NWO Veni grants for Daniel Curtis, Koen Leurs and Fenneke Sysling

Three young talented researchers of the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Daniel Curtis, Koen Leurs and Fenneke Sysling each receive up to 250,000 euro to conduct their own research in the upcoming three years.

  • Daniel Curtis: ‘Why do some epidemic diseases lead to hatred? An investigation into the impact of economic inequality on the extent of blame, persecution, hatred, and violence after early modern plagues in the Northern Low Countries’

  • Koen Leurs: ‘Young connected migrants. Comparing digital practices of young asylum seekers and expatriates in the Netherlands’

  • Fenneke Sysling: ‘The quantified self: a history (1850-present)’

NWO Talent Scheme (Vernieuwingsimpuls)

In total, NWO awarded 161 Veni grants, of which 28 for Utrecht University researchers. The Veni grants are part of NWO's Talent Scheme (Vernieuwingsimpuls), which offers individual grants to talented, creative researchers. This enables them to conduct the research of their choice. The Talent Scheme has three funding instruments - Veni, Vidi, Vici - tailored to various phases in researchers' scientific careers.

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