Dr. Natalie van Dis wins NEV Dissertation Award 2023

On December 15, the NEV Dissertation Award was awarded to Dr. Natalie van Dis, former PhD student of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES). Van Dis received the prize for her thesis Evolution in action: Drivers of rapid adaptation to climate change in the winter moth

The PhD project of Van Dis was supervised by Bregje Wertheim and Roelof Hut of GELIFES, and Marcel Visser of the NIOO, as part of the Adaptive Life program of the faculty FSE and GELIFES.

NEV Dissertation Award

The NEV Dissertation Award – a certificate + 1250 Euros – is offered each year by the Dutch Entomological Society (NEV in Dutch) for the best dissertation in the field of Entomology. Eligible for the award are dissertations that have been defended during the preceding academic year (that is, between 1 August and 31 July) at one of the Dutch universities. The board of the Section ‘Entomologendag’ pre-selects the best three dissertations and forward these to the society’s main board for the final verdict. The award is handed out on the Entomology Dag in December.