Templates and documents

• Weekly meeting notes
• Mentoring agreement
• Collaboration agreement

Meetings

• Cognitive Psychology colloquia are held at 16.00 on Thursdays. Email Julia Folz if you’re interested in receiving weekly invitations.
• We meet once a month with a smaller group interested in computational modelling. Email Selin Topel to get on the mailing list.
• The lab meets weekly; see lab calendar for times.
• I intend to have weekly meetings with PhD students and postdocs; for Master students, see the guidelines on BrightSpace.

Booking a room at Leiden Uni

• lecture hall somewhere in the university: email the ServiceDesk of every faculty separately (there is no uni-wide system).
• nice workshop space: Lorentz Center. When there are no workshops, Leiden Uni staff can make use of the space.
• common room in PdlC building: in Outlook web calendar, simply create an event and select ‘Psychology Common Room’ as the location.
• Olthoff room (CogPsy) for up to 8 ppl: there is a paper calendar at the secretariat.

Conferences

Feel free to explore meetings and conferences, and discuss where you’d like to go!

I normally go to the Dutch NVP (more cognitive) or DNM (more neuro) meetings in person, and to the virtual NeuroMatch conferences. Depending on your career stage and interests, you can consider attending FENS, SfN, ECVP, ASSC, CCN, Cosyne, CogSci.

The Transmitter keeps a great overview of neuroscience meetings.

Smaller meetings

• Society for the Biology of Decision Making
• Bernstein Conference

Summer schools

I strongly encourage students and postdocs to attend at least one summer school.

• overview of summer schools by Natalie Schaworonkow
• Rauischolzhausen, vision science
• CSHL, vision science
• Neuromatch Academy
• Barcelona behavioral modelling
• Nencki School of Ideas, Poland
• Mathematical Methods in Computational Neurosciences, Norway
• Cajal course in computational neuroscience

Laptop

Once you get a university laptop (talk to Anne before ordering it, to make sure we get you something useful) request it to switch to ‘semi-managed’. Without doing this, you won’t be able to install much software. Ask Anne how to best do this.

Funding - general

You can find Leiden University’s funding portal here, and the research support portal here.

Funding - PhD

These are some funding opportunities to check out for coming to Leiden:

• CAPES, PhD funding for students from Brazil
• ANID, PhD funding for students from Chile
• LPDP for students from Indonesia
• CSC, PhD funding for students from China
• Tata trusts, funding for students from India
• FCT, PhD funding for students from Portugal with a stay abroad
• NWO Mosaic, PhD funding for students with a Dutch MSc who come from underrepresented backgrounds

Funding - Postdoc

See this older list and the programmes below:

• Fondation Fyssen, postdoc funding after a PhD in France
• Leopoldina; DFG; DFG Walter Benjamin, postdoc funding after a PhD in Germany
• MCSA postdoc, for anyone who has not lived/worked in the Netherlands recently
• AXA
• Branco Weiss
• KNAW grants
• Women in Science Fellowship (L’Oréal-UNESCO)
• Graduate Women in Science Fellowship
• Narsad Young investigator
• EMBO biology
• Human Frontier Science Program
• LUF Praesidium Libertatis for a postdoc already working in Leiden
• NWO Veni or NWO ENW-M
• other LUF grants
• after doing a PhD in NL, for going abroad: NWO Rubicon
• postdoc abroad (after PhD in NL) or postdoc in NL (after PhD abroad): Ammodo Science Award

Funding - travel grants

• IBRO exchange grants for research visits to another lab (1-3 months).
• IBRO travel grants for conference visits
• Catharina van Tussenbroek travel grants, for women scientists
• KNAW van der Gaag grant
• eLife used to have travel grants
• Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
• Stichting de Drie Lichten for work visits, not conferences
• FENS/IBRO exchange visits
• Travelling fellowships, Company of Biologists
• LNVH Distinguished Women Scientist Fund travel funding for women postdocs in NL less than 3 years from PhD
• EMBO Scientific Exchange grant for research visits 1 week - 3 months in another European country
• Stichting Formation for women scientists wanting to visit The Netherlands