Funding

I acquired the following grants in the past 10 years:
2017 – 2022 Principal Investigator of the Dutch FOM free programme ‘Scanning New Horizons: Emergent Space-Time, Black Holes and Quantum Information’ in collaboration with the Universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht (€ 2.660.000)
2013 – 2016 Recipient of the Dutch FOM ‘beleidsruimteproject’ 12PR3026 A New Road to Massive Gravity? (€ 396.000)
2012 – 2017 Recipient of a KNAW grant (Academy Professorship Prize: € 1.237.500)
2009 – 2012 Recipient of the Dutch FOM ‘beleidsruimteproject’ 09PR272 Massive Gravity: the road to Quantum Gravity? (€ 360.000)
2010 – 2014 Co-recipient of the Dutch national FOM Programme grant A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quantum Matter (total budget: € 2.200.000)
2004 – 2008 University of Groningen Contact Person of the European Commission FP6 Marie Curie Actions programme MRTN-CT-2004-005104, Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe (total budget: € 2.810.751)
2004 – 2008 Recipient of special grant 02STQG06 within the FOM programme String Theory and Quantum Gravity (1 PhD student: € 212.000)
2003 – 2007 Recipient of special grant 02FI12 within the FOM programme Fundamental Interactions (1 PhD student: € 194.000)
2003 – 2007 Recipient of the ‘Breedtestrategie’ grant The Quest for Quantum Gravity, funded by the University of Groningen Executive Board (1 PhD student: € 200.000)
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