Jens Klooster
Jens Klooster has been awarded the Willem R. van Zwet AwardOpens external. Each year, the award is bestowed to the best PhD thesis in statistics or operations research obtained at a Dutch university. The annual contest is organised by the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR).
Anne Gielen
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded research fellow Anne Gielen of the Erasmus School of Economics a prestigious Vici grant. The grant, of of up to €1.5 million, will enable Anne to further consolidate and expand her research group over the next five years through her project, ‘Making Money Matter: Rethinking the Design of Income Support to Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty.’
Igo Dobbe
PhD student Igo Dobbe (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is the winner of the annual Jan Brouwer Thesis Award 2026, in the category of Economics and Business Economics.
Luca Henkel
Research fellow Luca Henkel, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences to conduct field experiments on the real-world impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace.
Aksel Erbahar
Aksel Erbahar has been awarded an XS grant of up to 50,000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in the Call for the Open Competition – Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for the project: Project: Internal Bridges or National Walls? Home Bias in EU Defence Spending.
Anita Kopányi-Peuker
Anita Kopányi-Peuker has been awarded an XS grant of up to 50,000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in the Call for the Open Competition – Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for the project: Project: Price efficiency and price manipulation: the effect of different closing auction designs in call markets.
Chen Li
Chen Li has been awarded an XS grant of up to 50,000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in the Call for the Open Competition – Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for the project: Project: She is aggressive and he deserves better: gendered effects of anger expression on negotiation outcomes.
Julia Rose
Julia Rose as been awarded an XS grant of up to 50,000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in the Call for the Open Competition – Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for the project: Project: Image Investing
Max Coveney
Max Coveney has been awarded an XS grant of up to 50,000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in the Call for the Open Competition – Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for the project: Project: Improving school tracking decisions with machine learning predictions.
Carlos Riumallo Herl
Carlos Riumallo Herl receives a Vidi grant for his research project 'Screening for cardiovascular diseases: The role of behavioural and non-behavioural barriers to uptake'.
Frank Kleibergen
Research Fellow Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society on October 8, 2025. A total of twenty-five new Fellows have been announced this year. They are then a Fellow for life.
Stanislav Avdeev
PhD student Stanislav Avdeev (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2025 EAIE Doctoral Research Grant. The grant provides up to €4500 in support of research.
Lina Zhang
Lina Zhang (University of Amsterdam) has been awarded an NWO Veni Grant for research project 'How Social Networks Shape What We Do and Who We Become.'
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an NWO Veni Grant for research project 'Central bank profits and losses: Macro-financial and inequality consequences.'
Annika Camehl
Research fellow Annika Camehl (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has been awarded an Open Competition SSH XS grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project, titled 'From Micro to Macro: Estimating the Economic Effects of Rare Events.' She receives a grant of up to 50,000 euro.
Andre Lucas
André Lucas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for the project titled 'The Best of both Worlds: Model Specification and Inference in Hybrid Machine Learning Econometric Models.'
Andreas G. B. Ziegler, Theo Offerman
Theo Offerman (University of Amsterdam) and Andreas Ziegler (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for their project titled 'When should Ethically Contested Markets be allowed?'
Anne Gielen, Esmee Zwiers
Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Esmée Zwiers (University of Amsterdam) have been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for the project titled 'Hormones at Work: How Menopause affects Women’s Labor Market Outcomes.'
Katharina Brütt, Klarita Gërxhani
Klarita Gërxhani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Katharina Brütt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for the project titled 'Beyond Gender: The Impact of Intersectional Stereotypes on Labour Market Evaluations.'
Maarten Bosker
Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and co-researcher Lodewijk Petram (Huygens Instituut) have been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for their project titled 'Enduring Empire: measuring Early Dutch Colonialism’s Lasting Impact in Indonesia.'