Prof. Patricia Osseweijer, who serves as a member of the Bioenergy and Sustainability Scientific Advisory Committee, was awarded the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship <http://www.nias-lorentz.nl/fellowship.html> (DLF) by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW <http://www.nias.knaw.nl> ) and the Lorentz Center <http://www.lorentzcenter.nl> Leiden at a ceremony on 26 March 2015.

The DLF is awarded to a leading scientist working on research that brings together perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Technological Sciences.

Prof. Osseweijer is Full Professor in Science Communication at Delft University of Technology <http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/biotechnology/people/biotechnologie-en-samenleving/profdr-p-osseweijer/>, where she leads the Section Biotechnology and Society at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. She also manages the program ‘Societal embedding of a Sustainable Biobased Society’ of the Public-Private Partnership BE-Basic <http://www.be-basic.org> . She has published over seventy articles, and delivered more than eighty (invited) conference presentations. Osseweijer’s outreach activities include the “Imagine <http://www.foundation-imagine.org> ” science communication project for secondary schools.