In 2017 the prize was not awarded.

2016: Maurijn van der Zee On the function of the insect serosa.

2015: Wouter Halfwerk Understanding selective forces operating on multimodal communication in tungara frogs.

2014: Rudy Jonker Trans-generational responses to a changing world.

2013: Bertanne Visser, Evolutionary physiology - Linking gene to function.

2012: Gretha Boersma, Animal personalities and coping style: their roles in health and disease

In 2011 the prize was not awarded.

2010: Martine Maan, On the selective forces that drive the origin, maintenance and evolutionary consequences of animal colour diversity

2009: David Lentink, Mechanisms and evolution of animal locomotion

2008: Joris M. Koene, Sexual conflict

2007: Jan van Gils, In the footsteps of Jan Verwey: How flexible phenotypes reflect ambient ecological conditions

2006: Mark O. Huising, Communication in the endocrine and immune systems: Physiology and phylogeny

2005: Sander van Doorn, Sexual selection and sympatric speciation

2004: Irene Tieleman, Coping with challenges in different environments - Larks along an aridity gradient, and beyond

2003: Sander Kranenbarg, Does oxygen constrain size and shape of the teleost embryo?

2002: Jacintha Ellers, Fat or eggs? The evolution of resource allocation in heterogeneous environments

2001: Johan Bolhuis, Neural mechanisms of song learning in zebra finches

2000: Jan Komdeur, Partner choice and sex ratio adjustment as exponents of sexual selection

In 1999 the prize was not awarded.

1998: Ole Seehausen, Sexually selected species diversity as a function of communication channel width

1997: Bruno Ens, Career planning in oystercatchers

1996: Eddy A. van der Zee, Muscarinic cholinoceptive systems: distribution of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and behaviourally induced plasticity in the brain

1995: Kees J. Nagelkerke, Evolution of sex allocation strategies in pseudo-arrhenotoke predatory mites

1994: Theunis Piersma, Energetic bottle-necks and the evolution of migratory routes of sandpipers

1993: Arie P. Otte, Molecular mechanisms of neural induction and competence

1992: Marcel Dicke, Predator-prey interactions in a tritrophic context

1991: Herbert H.T. Prins, Ecology and behaviour of the African buffalo