The best-viewed research news of 2023
Over the past year, we frequently shared interesting and groundbreaking research. News about appointments, farewells and scholarships was also read with great interest. Read the best-viewed research news of 2023 in this overview.
John Einmahl: professor of the exceptional
On the 8th of September, professor John Einmahl said farewell to Tilburg University. As a mathematician on a campus populated by economists, lawyers, psychologists and sociologists, he has spent decades researching what is known as extreme value theory: the mathematics of the exceptional.
Tilburg University appoints Martin Salm as Professor of Health Economics and Applied Microeconomics
Tilburg University has appointed Martin Salm as full professor of Health Economics and Applied Microeconomics. He takes up this post on 1 November 2023. His research mainly focuses on economic incentives in the healthcare sector, for example exploring how patients respond to health insurance deductibles.
Farewell to Eric van Damme: Ministerial policy is too political and lacks sufficient scientific basis
All good things must come to an end. In a time-honored tradition, Eric van Damme, Professor of Economics, rounded off his academic career with a lecture that, in addition to family and friends, was attended by an unprecedented cortege of 50 professors. This speaks volumes about Van Damme’s academic network and the mark he has made as a researcher in a key area of microeconomics: game theory. “It was no TED talk. My aim was to crack one of the tough nuts of game theory – the prisoner’s dilemma – for the non-expert.” Time for a look back with an icon of Tilburg’s economics faculty. And far beyond.
ERC Consolidator Grant for further development of new research methods for the social sciences
Joris Mulder (Department of Methodology and Statistics) is the recipient of a Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). With this two million euro project, Joris will improve and further develop innovative research methods for challenging research problems for nonlinear social science. The new methods will allow his team, and in the end the scientific community as a whole, to get a deeper and more nuanced understanding of complex nonlinear mechanisms between variables and about complex nonlinear processes over time. These methods will for instance result in novel insights about peoples’ well-being around stressful life events or about nonlinear integration processes of new workers in organizations. The methods also aim to make better predictions about behavior and about social interactions in the future.
Highest award in Dutch scientific community granted to Prof. Corien Prins
Professor of Law and Informatization Corien Prins of Tilburg University, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) today announced, is to receive the Stevin Prize, the highest science award in the Netherlands, for her contributions to both the development of law and information technology and to policymaking in this area. Prins is one of four scientists who have been awarded this year’s Spinoza and Stevin Prizes, each receiving EUR 1.5 million for academic research and activities related to knowledge utilization.
