Four lecturers have been nominated for Lecturer of the Year 2025: two from a university and two from a university of applied sciences. The winner will receive a grant of 25 thousand euros for educational innovation. It is the eleventh time that the prize will been awarded.
One of the contenders is from TU Delft: dr. Miriam Blaauboer (Applied Sciences). She was elected TU Delft’s lecturer of the year in November 2024, which automatically gave her a chance to win the national nomination.
Blaauboer has been involved in teaching for 15 years, contributing to both the bachelor’s and master’s programmes in Applied Physics. Her standout courses include the Honours Class on Electromagnetism for bachelor’s students and Fundamentals of Quantum Information in the new MSc programme on Quantum Information Science & Technology (QIST).
Her nomination highlights her teaching style as follows: ‘Miriam stands out as an educator thanks to her crystal-clear explanations, sparkling enthusiasm, empathy towards students, and disarming friendliness. She delivers her lectures with such energy that it inspires students to dive deeper into the topics.’
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The other nominated lecturers are Menno Otten (Amsterdam University of the Arts), Farid Boussaid (University of Amsterdam) and Anna Posthumus Meyjes-de Breij (Leiden University of Applied Sciences). The election is organised by the Dutch National Students’ Association (ISO) and the Comenius network of innovative lecturers. The jury includes students, lecturers and last year’s winner: Peter Pelzer from Utrecht University. The award ceremony will be held in Nieuwegein on 7 April.
The Comenius network was founded in 2018 and now has more than six hundred members from vocational secondary, higher and university education. They can become a member through prizes and education grants, but for a few years now it has also been possible if you write a good motivation letter.
This time, in the judging, extra attention will be paid to ‘socially oriented thinking’. “At a time when opinions differ, it is precisely teachers who can provide connection in the classroom,” says ISO president Mylou Miché.
HOP/Bas Belleman, Delta
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