The Frijda Chair is named after Nico Frijda (1927-2015), who was emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and a pioneer of cognitive science in the Netherlands. Each year, the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center at his alma mater awards this chair to a prominent researcher in the field of brain and cognitive sciences, on the basis of outstanding interdisciplinary achievements.
In 2019, the Frijda Chair is rewarded to Greg Siegle. Dr. Siegle is director of the Programme in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (PICAN) at the University of Pittsburgh.
Earlier recipients of the Frijda Chair:
2016 | Josh Tenenbaum The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA 2015 | Mark T. Wallace Vanderbilt Brain Institute |
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| 2014 | Micheal Meaney
McGill University, Canada. |
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| 2013 | Christine van Broeckhoven
University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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| 2012 | Kevin LaBar
Duke University, USA |
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| 2011 | Adele Diamond
University of British Columbia, Canada |
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| 2010 | Ernst Fehr
University of Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 2009 | Christof Koch
California Institute of Technology, USA |
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| 2008 | James McClelland
Stanford University, USA |
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| 2007 | Harald Clahsen
University of Essex, UK |
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| 2006 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith
University College London, UK |
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| 2005 | Michael Tomasello
Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany |
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| 2004 | Richard Morris
University of Edinburgh, UK |
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| 2003 | Keith Stenning
University of Edinburgh, UK |