- ERC-Advanced Grant Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam (2021-2026)
- NWO VIDI scholarship, Of Poetry and Politics: Classical Poetic Concepts in New Politics of Twentieth Century Iran (2009-2014)
- Fellow at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) (2013-2014)
- NWO VENI scholarship, A History of Early Literary Riddles: the Emergence of Persian Riddle Poetry and its Impact on Poetic Diction (2002-2006)
- Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (2007-2012)
- Four-year full-time PhD scholarship at NWO (“onderzoeker in opleiding”), placed at Leiden University (1997)