Awards - Dr. Heidi Jacobs

  • October 2025: 2025 Distinguished Investigator award and inducted as a member of the council of distinguished investigators of The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research!
  • July 2022: de Leon award of Neuroimaging (junior scientist) for the best publication 2022 by the Alzheimer's Association | ISTAART
  • June 2015: Award for the most outstanding paper of 2014 (Bruner et al., 2014) by the Journal of Anatomy
  • October 2012: International Junior Investigator Award from the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, Sevilla, Spain
  • March 2012: Best poster at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurophysiologie und Funktionelle Bildgebung (DGKN), Cologne, Germany
  • July 2011: EURON-certificate for her PhD-thesis
  • July 2011: PhD-thesis with distinction cum laude
  • February 2011: Best poster presentation at the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience research day, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • February 2011: Runner-up best publication at the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience research day, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • 2006-2008: Marie Curie Fellowship at Maastricht University (PhD-student position under the training site under the FP6 of 2006)

Awards - Dr. Maxime van Egroo

  • July 2025: Best oral presentation award at the Integrative Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems meeting, Boston, USA
  • July 2025: Best publication by the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Professional Interest Area, ISTAART, USA
  • July 2024: Best publication by the Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems Professional Interest Area, ISTAART, USA
  • 2024: Manuscript image on the cover of Annals of Neurology
  • July 2021: Postdoctoral Fellowship program in Alzheimer's disease Research, BrightFocus Foundation, USA
  • October 2018: Selected presenter for the Young Scientist Symposium, 24th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Basel, Switzerland
  • October 2018: Travel grant based on the scientific quality of the submitted work, 24th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Basel, Switzerland
  • September 2018: Crédits forfaitaires de fonctionnement, Léon Fredericq Foundation, Liège, Belgium
  • March 2018: Subvention de la Classe des Sciences, The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Awards - Ms. Yuliya Patsyuk

  • July 2026: Fellowship by the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2026, London, UK (registration)
  • July 2025: Travel award from the Integrative Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems Meeting, Boston, USA

Awards - Dr. Prokopis Prokopiou

  • July 2023: Best presentation by the Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems Professional Interest Area, ISTAART, USA

Awards - Dr. Joost Riphagen

  • January 2022: Human Amyloid Imaging Conference Fellowship, Miami, USA

Awards - Previous Blue Spotter members

  • Lukas Heinrich: Travel Scholarship award from Human Amyloid Imaging Conference 2025, Puerto Rico, USA
  • Lukas Heinrich: Travel Scholarship award from Human Amyloid Imaging Conference 2024, Miami, USA
  • Jona Schebesta: Student Thesis Prize for his Master thesis at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience 2025, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Timothy Lawn: Best poster presentation at the Integrative Neuromodulatory Subcortical Sytems meeting, Boston, 2025
  • Timothy Lawn: Travel Scholarship award from Human Amyloid Imaging Conference 2025, Puerto Rico, USA
  • Elise Beckers: Award for best poster presentation at the SLTBR 
  • Whitney Freeze: L'Oreal for Women in Science award
  • Roy van Hooren: Top 10 poster presentation at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2020