Anna van ‘t Veer winner of the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2024
The Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2024 from the UKB has been won by Anna van ’t Veer. The award was presented on October 22 during the Open Science Festival in Maastricht by Jessica Waaijers, Leo’s daughter.
Anna van ’t Veer
Anna van ’t Veer is researcher, teacher, and community manager focused on Open and Responsible Scholarship, initiator of the Leiden OS community and active as chair of the board of the national network of OS communities (OSC-NL).
The jury report:
‘Anna van ‘t Veer has been an advocate of Open Science since her PhD and has personally stuck her neck out for this during her entire career, both within and outside her field. With her commitment and personal daring, she mobilises and activates many others. In doing so, Anna truly follows in Leo Waaijers’ footsteps. That is why she is the winner of the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award.’
During the Award ceremony the two other shortlisted nominees were also put in the spotlight.
Pavlo Baziliskyy
Pavlo is a researcher in automotive research and carried out several Citizen Science projects with thousands of participants.
The jury report:
‘The jury considers it very important to involve citizens in scientific research. Pavlo has pioneered with citizen science research in his field of automotive research. The jury found it bold and innovative and hopes it will inspire many other researchers inside and outside his field of automotive research.’
Unfortunately, Pavlo couldn’t attend the festival.
CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition
The other shortlisted nomination was the team of CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition. The teamleader Nees Jan van Eck was present at the festival and was called to the stage.
The jury report:
‘The jury appreciates the first edition of the Leiden Ranking Open Edition, based on open data. Especially because this is the first step towards the further use of open data for all CWTS activities in the field of bibliometrics. The jury would like to underline the CWTS arguments for this: the use of open data makes the results transparent and creates a level playing field for researchers in countries that cannot use the expensive commercial databases.’
Read the complete jury report 2024 Leo Waaijers Open Science Award
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At the end of the Award ceremony, Hilde van Wijngaarden, the chair of the UKB, announced that there also will be a Leo Waaijers Open Science Award in 2025 and encouraged the attendees to think about possible nominees..