Dijkstra Fellowships

Every five years, CWI awards the Dijkstra Fellowships to researchers who have made exceptional contributions to mathematics and computer science. Named after Edsger Dijkstra, a pioneering computer scientist and former CWI researcher, the fellowships recognise outstanding scientific achievement and its lasting significance for the field.

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The Dijkstra Fellowships are awarded once every five years. The fellowships are named in honour of Edsger Dijkstra, the eminent mathematician and computer scientist whose work at CWI included the shortest path algorithm. With the fellowships, CWI recognizes researchers whose contributions have had lasting significance for mathematics and computer science.

Previous winners

The first Dijkstra Fellowships were awarded to David Chaum and Guido van Rossum (2019).

Guido van Rossum and David Chaum, holding the Dijkstra Fellowship award.
Guido van Rossum (left) and David Chaum.

In 2024 Marcin Żukowski became a Dijkstra Fellow.

Marcin Zukowski with the Fellowship Award standing next to a banner announcing lectures on Data Systems Architectures
Marcin Żukowski

The next granting of the Dijkstra Fellowships will be in 2029.