Awards & Grants
AWARDS
- 2015: Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award
- 2014: The Case Centre Awards Competition in the category “Best New Case Writer” for “Michel et Augustin Cookies: Culinary Adventures Competing Against Food Industry Giants”
- 2013: Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar Award
- 2012: Best Poster Award, Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Conference
- 2008: Best Paper Award, International Journal of Advertising (IJA)
- 2006: Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2006
- 2005: Award for “Best Dissertation of the Year 2005”, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Muenster; Best Paper Award based on doctorial thesis 2005, European Marketing Academy (EMAC); Best Poster Award 2005, German Radiology Association (Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft); Runner-up “Best Dissertation in 2005”, German Marketing Association (Business Association Deutscher Marketing Verband)
- 2004: Young Researcher Award 2004, Wilhelm-Lorch-Foundation (Wilhelm-Lorch-Stiftung)
- 1999-2000: ERASMUS scholarship (European university student exchange program)
GRANTS
- 2017: Canada 150 Chair (CAN$ 2.5 Mio) “Consumer Neuroscience”, McGill University, Canada, declined
- 2017: ANR Tremplin-ERC grant (€150K) “Brain Gut Decision”
- 2016: ANR INSEAD Sorbonne Emergence grant (€50K) “Toward a motivational theory of placebo effects: How the brain mediates placebo effects of energy drinks on motivation” (together with Pierre Chandon and Mathias Pessiglione)
- 2014: INSEAD Sorbonne Convergence grant (€100K) “Better to use your gut or brain? Information processing during self- control” (together with researchers from Sorbonne / Paris 6)
- 2013: INSEAD Sorbonne Convergence grant (€43K) “Obesity: The Bidirectional Effects of Biology and the Environment” (together with Pierre Chandon and researchers from Sorbonne / Paris 6); Institute for Cardio-Metabolism and Nutrition (ICAN) grant (€120K) “Brain-Gut axis in food preferences” (together with researchers from Sorbonne / Paris 6)
