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).
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.