2024-2028 – Starters Grant (240,000 EUR)
Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Project: The Labor Market Outcomes of LGBT People with a Migration Background
Principal Investigator, together with Floris Peters
2024-2025 – Spark Grant (9,000 EUR)
Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CuCo)
Project: Dismantling Disparities: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Academic Inequalities and the Role of Unusual Collaborations in Societal Advancement
Principal Investigator, together with Andries Temme, Azadeh Kermani, and Rahul Subburaj
2024-2028 – Horizon Europe Framework Programme (2,773,644 EUR)
European Commission
Project: EFFEct – Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Education
Principal Investigator for Utrecht University (426,889 EUR)
Other PIs: Kristof De Witte (KU Leuven – Coordinator Project), Tomasso Agasisti (Polytechnic University of Milan), Dániel Horn (Hungarian Centre for Economic and Regional Studies), and Selina McCoy (Economic and Social Research Institute)
2022-2023 – Microdata Access Grant (7,500 EUR)
Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations (ODISSEI)
Project: Mental Health of Children with Same-Sex Parents
Principal Investigator, together with Mark Verhagen
2022-2024 – Dutch Research Agenda (1,609,944 EUR)
The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Project: The Economic Resilience of Women
Investigator in subproject ‘On the Path to Work’ (620,000 EUR), together with Tanja van der Lippe (PI subproject) and Anne-Rigt Poortman
Principal Investigators project: Tanja van der Lippe and Belle Derks
2021-2024 – Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship (180,000 EUR)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Project: An Economic Perspective on the Role of Family Structure and Education as Determinants of Crime
Solo Principal Investigator
2019-2023 – Junior Research Project (430,000 EUR)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Project: The Underlying Mechanisms and the Heterogeneity of School and Labour Market Outcomes
Principal Investigator, together with Kristof De Witte
2020 – EEB Open Call (10,000 EUR)
European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
Project: Development of a model for SDG monitoring, reviewing and report at EU-level
Principal Investigator, together with Fritz Schiltz and Vítězslav Titl
2016-2020 – Ph.D. Fellowship (195,000 EUR)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Project: An Economic Perspective on School Dropout
Solo Principal Investigator