Teaching Assistant and Lecturer of the Year Awards
Each year, the first-year students elect the lecturer and TA of the year.
The prizes are awarded at the research master's diploma ceremony in November.
2025
Lecturers of the year:
Business Data Science: Patrick Groenen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), course Machine Learning I and II.
Economics: Theo Offerman (University of Amsterdam), course Microeconomics IV (Behavioral Economics).
Economics and Business Data Science common course: Florian Wagener (University of Amsterdam), courses Fundamental Mathematics and Advanced Mathematics).
TA's of the year:
Economics: Igo Dobbe (Macroeconomics II (Macroeconomic Policy)
Business Data Science: Ranjan Mishra (Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing)
Economics and Business Data Science common course: Tijmen Henkes (Fundamental Mathematics)
2024
Lecturer of the year: Florian Wagener (University of Amsterdam)
TA of the year common course TI/BDS: Ali Moin (TI Economics)
2023
Lecturer of the year: Patrick Groenen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
TA of the year: Tomas Miskov
TA of the year common courses BDS/TI: Ming Cheng
2022
Lecturer of the year: Bernd Heidergott (VU)
TA of the year: Stanislav Avdeev
2021
Lecturer of the year: Florian Wagener (UvA)
TA of the year: Yasmine van der Straten
2020
Lecturer of the year: Pieter Gautier (VU)
TA of the year: Mariia Artemova
2019
Lecturer of the year: Florian Wagener (UvA)
TA of the year: Vahid Moghani
