2006-2009

PhD degree (cum laude), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2001-2005

MSc Economics, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands

2016-present

Full Professor of Economics of Global Environmental Change at the Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2016-present

Full Professor of Economics of Climate Change and Natural Disasters at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2017-present

Senior Research Fellow, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA

2015-2016

Associate Professor Economics at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2010-2014

Assistant Professor Economics at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2012-2017

Visiting scholar at the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA

2006-2009

PhD student at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Fall 2008

Visiting researcher at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, USA

Spring 2008

Visiting researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

2005-2006

Lecturer at the Economics Department, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands

2015-2020

Vidi scholarship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

2014

2011-2014

2013

2012

Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize

Veni scholarship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Award for the best paper in the journal Risk Analysis granted by the Society for Risk Analysis, USA

Award for the best paper in the journal Risk Analysis granted by the Society for Risk Analysis