Bijsterveld was director of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture from 2005 to 2010. In 2009 she won a Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This allowed her to do research on the project "Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in the Development of Science, Technology and Medicine (1920-now)".
Bijsterveld was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.