KNAW Early Career Partnership awarded

I am honoured to have received a Early Career Partnership from the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences). The KNAW aims to support promising early-career researchers and encourages them to build new collaborations across disciplines and explore innovative research ideas by providing 10.000 euros funding for organising a scientific meeting. I am one of only ten researchers in the Netherlands to receive this recognition in 2026.

My planned workshop is titled ‘More than numbers: an interdisciplinary exploration of meaningful and responsible measurement in science and society’ and will bring together researchers from different fields to discuss a simple but important question: What do numbers actually tell us – and how can we measure in a way that is meaningful and responsible? The aim of this workshop is to explore the similarities and differences in measurement practices between scientific disciplines (alpha/beta/gamma) in order to answer the question of what constitutes ‘good’ measurement. This question is relevant not only to science but also to society, now that we live in a world that increasingly revolves around data.