Honors, Prizes & Funding
1992: Shell PhD-student travel grant (Sanibel
Symposium, USA)
1993-1996: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellowship
1997-1999: DFG Habilitation Fellowship
1998: European Union TMR Visiting Scientist, Univ. Girona, Instit. Comput. Chem.
1998-2000: Fond der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) Fellowship A. Diefenbach (1 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2001-2006: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Jonge Chemici award (1 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2000: DAAD (German Exchange Service) Visiting Scientist, Univ. Girona, Inst. Comput. Chem.
2002-2007: HPC-Europa (ca. 10 visitor grants)
2002-2008: NWO VICI award (2 PhD + 2 PD + large compute cluster + other equipment & consumables)
2004-2009: National Research School Combination - Catalysis (NRSC-C) research grant (1 PhD + 1 PD + equipment & consumables)
2004-2005: Generalitat de Catalunya (GdC) Fellowship for J. Poater (1 PD + equipment & consumables)
2006-2008: Marie Curie Fellowship (1 senior PD: J. Poater + equipment & consumables)
2007: Nominated Best Teacher Faculty of Sciences
2007-2012: IRTG HRSMC-Univ. Münster funded by DFG and NWO (3 shared PhD + equipment & consumables)
2009-2011: Ministry of Science and Education of Spain (MeC) Fellowship (1 PD: J. M. Ruíz)
2009-2015: NRSC-C research grant (1 PdD + 1 PD + equipment & consumables)
2009: Selected Teacher of the Amsterdam University College (AUC)
2009-2012: Industrial contract-research project with Wacker Chemie (1 PD + travel costs)
2009-2014: IRSES grant "CANIOC" (joint proposal Girona, Amsterdam, Guanajuato: network activities)
2010-2015: NWO Astrochemistry research grant (1 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2011: Nominated Best Teacher Faculty of Sciences
2011-2012: Basque Science Foundation Fellowship (1 PD: A. de Cozar + equipment & consumables)
2011-2015: NRSC-C research grant Bio-Solar Cells (1 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2012: NWO BAZIS (joint ACMM proposal: € 350,000 for parallel compute cluster)
2012: CNPq Visiting Professorship, University of São
Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil (not accepted due to personal circumstances)
2012-2015: COST Action CM1005, Member (network activities)
2012-2016: COST Action CM1105, Member Management Committee (network activities)
2012-2019: NWO Graduate Program (joint HRSMC proposal: € 800,000 for 4 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2013-2019: NWO-Doctoral Grant for Teachers (1 PhD: Z. Boughlala + equipment & consumables)
2013: European Union Visiting Professorship, Center for Advanced Studies, Warsaw University of Technology
2013: EMBO Short-Term Fellowship (host PI for 1 PD: J. Poater)
2013-2015: Marie Curie (MC) Fellowship (1 senior PD: G. Paragi + equipment & consumables)
2013-2017: NWO Planetary and Exoplanetary Research Program (2 PD + equipment & consumables)
since 2014: Member Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities)
2014-2015: Centro Paulo Freire hosting grant (1 visiting professor: S. E. Galembeck)
2014: Marie Curie Fellowship (1 senior PD: G. Roos + equipment & consumables)
since 2014: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2014-2018: China Scholarship Council (CSC) grant (1 PhD: X. Sun)
2015-2019: Shell-NWO/FOM Computational Science for Energy (CSER) grant; with Lammertsma (1 PhD: A. Narsaria + equipment & consumables)
2016-2018: DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship (host PI for 1 PD: J. Nitsch)
2016: HRSMC hosting grant; with Orru and Ruijter (1 visiting professor: J. Poater, 6 months)
2016-2017: China Scholarship Council (CSC) grant (1 PhD: Z. Liu)
2016-present: Member Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks (ARC-CBBC)
2017-2021: NWO Astrochemistry II research grant (with I. Swart: 1 PhD + equipment & consumables)
2017-2021: China Scholarship Council (CSC) grant (1 PhD: S. Yu)
2018: HRSMC hosting grant; with Orru and Ruijter (1 visiting professor: I. Fernandez, mid 2018)
2018-2022: National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (with C. Esterhuysen: 1 PhD + consumables)
2019: HRSMC hosting grant (1 visiting professor: O. Jiménez-Halla)
2019-2023: ARC-CBBC research grant (Assistant Professor + PhD student)
2019-permanent: Ministry of Education and Science - Sectorplan Beta en Techniek (joint Dept. Chem. & Pharm. proposal)
2019-permanent: Ministry of Education and Science - Sectorplan Beta en Techniek - Additional Funding for Comput. Chem.
since 2020: Chemistry Europe Fellow