Dr A.Z. de Vries (Lyke)

Lyke de Vries is secretary of the Adviescommissie Samenwerkingsverbanden. She also works as an advisor in research finance and is, among others, responsible for research policy and nominations at Radboud University.

Previously she was a research fellow and lecturer in the history of philosophy at Radboud University. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, and focuses on the roots and development of modern concepts of change and progress. Lyke is interested in the emergence of "universal reformation," and analyses the close and complex relation of changes within various fields, including in medicine, religion, natural philosophy, and scientia more broadly.
Her book, entitled "Reformation, Revolution, Renovation: The Roots and Reception of the Rosicrucian Call for General Reform," was published with Brill in 2021 (Open Access).

Lyke obtained her Master's degree (cum laude) in July 2015 from Radboud University. She did her PhD in both Nijmegen and Oxford (funded by NWO and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds).
After her PhD, she held research positions in Leiden, Nijmegen, and Amsterdam. She is now a fellow of Nijmegen's Center for the History of Philosophy and Science.

Further positions:
Content Editor and member of the Council of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), see: www.ambix.org

contact: lyke.devries@ru.nl