Honors, awards and personal grants
- 2023 Teacher Talent Award (elected by Utrecht University)
- 2022 Lecturer in the spotlight award (elected by Unitas Pharmaceuticorum U.P.S.V.) 
- 2013 Transition Postdoc Fellowship (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
- 2012 Short-term fellowship for Ph.D. exchange project (MS-Life, Marie Curie)
- 2012 Student travel award (Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry)
- 2011 Outstanding poster award (Netherland Proteomics Centre)
- 2007 M.Sc. cum laude (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- 2006 Undergraduate scholarship in analytical chemistry (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)