Peter Wakker
The KHMW Van der Aa Oeuvre Prize 2026 has been awarded to research fellow Peter Wakker, Professor of Decision-Making under Uncertainty in the Behavioural Economics programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The prize is awarded to one Dutch researcher each year, ranging over all sciences. The prize money for 2026 is 25,000 euros.
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.