LKYCIC Research Fellow Wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prize

Dr Thijs Willems, a research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, SUTD, has won the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prize in the field of the humanities and the social sciences.

Dr Willems’ PhD dissertation was selected alongside four other winners. They were recognised for their dissertation papers’ outstanding quality, true interdisciplinary methods, originality, international scope and excellent readability.

The winners were also honoured in a virtual ceremony held on 23 June 2020, exactly 60 years from when the foundation was founded on 23 June 1958.

Hear more from Dr Willems on his ethnographic study of the Dutch railway system and view the virtual ceremony here (from 26:24 mins onwards).