VU University Amsterdam has launched the Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom* (FDL) chair programme in order to promote female scientific talent on its way to the top and to address the lack of female professors. Female assistant and associate professors are proposed for the FDL chair by the faculties and are appointed for a maximum period of 5 years. The FDL professor will then be offered a full professorship if she has performed successfully. All FDL-candidates of the first period 2005-2010 have been installed as professor during or after the FDL-professorship. The FDL chair helps faculties to identify female talent within their organization and remove the last obstacles to a full professorship.

Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom professors

	Katya Tolstoj Professor of Theology and Religion in Post-Trauma Societies	2020 - 2025	FRT
	Marjo de Theije Professor of Anthropology of Resources	2020 - 2025	FSW
	Marije Martijn Professor of History of Philosophy, in particular Ancient Philosophy	2020 - 2025	FGW
	Francesca Sotgui Professor of Omnichannel Marketing	2020 - 2025	SBE
	Wendy Janssens Professor of Development Economics	2020 - 2025	SBE
	Monique van der Veen Professor of Monitoring in Oral Health and Prevention	2020 - 2025	ACTA
	Dagmar Else Slot Professor of Prevention in oral care, in particular the clinical application	2020 - 2025	ACTA
	Judith Bosmans Professor of Methodology of Performance Research: Better Methods for Better Decisions	2020 - 2025	SCIENCE

Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom (1913-2004) studied Law at VU University and obtained a PhD in 1937. During WWII she defended people who were arrested for their resistance work, together with her husband. Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom studied the bible on the position of women in society and published several books about the relation between men and women. Mostly she is known for her fight for passive women voting rights in her party, the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP).