Grants and Awards

Research Grants 

Principal Investigator for a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition Grant (2023-2028; 400,000 Euros). Project Title: Revamping Microfinance

Principal Investigator for a TiU Fund Grant (2020-2024; 12,000 Euros). Project Title: Welfare Effects of Flexible Labor Contracts

Co-recipient of a DFID Project Grant (2013-2018; 3,700,000 Euros). Project Title: Coordinated Country Studies on Finance and Growth

Principal Investigator for a EU Marie Curie Grant (2011-2015; 100,000 Euros). Project Title: Financial Development and Misallocation

Research Awards

Semifinalist for a Best Paper Award at Financial Management Association Meetings (2022)

Nominated for Tilburg University Resarch Impact Award (with Patricio Dalton) (2020)

Tilburg University Research Valorization Award (co-recipient) (2017) 

Teaching Awards

Tilburg School School of Economics and Management Student Association's Teacher of the Year Award (2023)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2023)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2022)

Nominated for Best MSc Teacher Award at Tilburg School School of Economics and Management (2021)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2021)

Runner-up for Best MSc Teacher Award at Tilburg School School of Economics and Management (2020)

Best RM Teacher Award at CentER Graduate School of Economics (2019)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2018)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2015)

Excellent Teacher Award for Financial Markets and Institutions Course (2014)