Stan Koobs
PhD student Stan Koobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is jointly awarded the 2022 Gutierrez Toscano Prize for his excellent performance in the MSc in Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Hong Deng
Hong Deng (Erasmus University Rotterdam) won the best paper award (PhD track) at the Marketing Dynamics Conference 2022, which took place at Georgia State University on November 10-12. For the award the three best papers in the PhD track were selected based on the audience feedback and the committee evaluation.
Hong Deng
Hong Deng (Erasmus University Rotterdam) won the best paper award (PhD track) for her research on ‘Real-Time Personalization in Dynamic Environments’’, at the Marketing Dynamics Conference 2022, which took place at Georgia State University on November 10-12.
Else-Marie van den Herik
Research master student Else-Marie van den Herik is one of the two winners of the 2022 Lambers Student Excellence Award. The Award, which is sponsored by ARK Fonds of Erasmus Trustfonds, contains a monetary value of 3,500 euros and a medal.
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru, Shihao Yu
Albert J. Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and PhD students Shihao Yu (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Columbia University, United States) and Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been selected for a contract award in the Alberto Giovannini Programme for Data Science by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), together with the European Central Bank (ECB).
Gerard van der Meijden, Joelle Noailly, Steven Poelhekke
Joelle Noailly, Gerard van der Meijden and Steven Poelhekke of the Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have been awarded a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for the project “Critical Minerals and the Clean Energy Transition”.
Tim Boonen
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) selected research fellow Tim Boonen as the winner of the 2022 SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Award. In addition to the award, the winner also received a cash prize of $5,000.
Florian Wagener
Research fellow Florian Wagener has been elected President of the International Society on Dynamic Games (ISDG) at the 19th Symposium of the Society on July 25-28, 2022.
Herman van Dijk
Emeritus Fellow Herman van Dijk of Erasmus School of Economics has been awarded the 2022 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). The medal recognises ISBA members who have "rendered exceptional service to ISBA over an extended period of time, with a long-lasting impact."
Cem Peker
ADA Best PhD Incubator talk at the Advances in Decision Analysis Conference 2022
Florian Sniekers
Alumnus Florian Sniekers (Tilburg University), together with co-authors with Espen R. Moen (Norwegian Business School (BI)) and Plamen T. Nenov (Norwegian Business School (BI)) are the winners of the prestigious Hicks-Tinbergen Award 2022 for their paper Buying First or Selling First in Housing Markets (JEEA Volume 19 Issue 1).
Herman van Dijk
During the 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), one of the major conferences in econometrics worldwide and the primary event on Bayesian econometrics in Europe, honorary fellow Herman K. van Dijk will be honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics with a special session, followed by a special issue of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
Terri van der Zwan
Terri van der Zwan, Tinbergen Institute PhD candidate at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus School of Economics, has received a Fulbright Promovendus Award to research new methodologies on how to combine multi-frequency data.Terri will spend the Fall semester of the academic year 2022-2023 in the United States conducting research for her next project, attending seminars and conferences, and building relationships with fellow scholars.She will be based at the Rady School of Management, hosted by Professor Allan Timmermann at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
Titus Galama
Titus Galama (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who is affiliated with the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project on behalf of the School of Business and Economics, will spend part of the grant money (€548,740) together with scientists and students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying the relationship between genes (nature) and environment (nurture) in health, education and work. One of the spearheads is to better understand the causes of inequality.
Phyllis Wan
Phyllis Wans has been awarded a VENI grant for her three-year project: “Data-driven pattern recognition in multivariate extremes,” which focusses on the study of extremes. Extreme events, such as the 2008 financial crisis or the 2021 European flooding, entail high risks for the society.
Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld
The European Commission has granted research fellows Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme.
Xu Lin
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Society of Sciences) has awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs (thesis award) to TI graduate Xu Lin. Lin wrote her thesis entitled Buying Time to Save Lives: Evaluating COVID-19 Lockdown Policies using a Behavioral SEIR as part of the Research Master in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Xu Lin is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. TI Research Fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen acted as supervisor for Xu Lin’s master thesis.
Albert J. Menkveld
For the year 2021, over half of the top 40 consists of TI Research Fellows. Moreover, the top 3 consists of TI research fellows entirely: Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit), Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit) and Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Albert Menkveld now ranks first for the second year in a row.