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Research Grants

PRIN 2017 research project From Models to Decisions (as Principal Investigator, with Gustavo Cevolani, Carlo Martini and Giovanni Valente, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). 2019--2022. Value: ca. € 560.000.

ERC Starting Investigator Grant for the project "Making Scientific Inferences More Objective". 2015--2020. Value: € 1,500,000.

Postdoctoral Researcher on explanatory and causal reasoning in the second phase of the DFG Priority Programm "New Frameworks of Rationality" (as co-applicant, main applicant: Dr. Matteo Colombo). 2015--2017. Value: € 209,000.

Vidi Scholarship for the project "Making Scientific Inferences More Objective" by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). 2014--2019. Includes a postdoc and a PhD position. Value: € 800,000.

Postdoctoral reseracher (Dr. Jun Lai) in the e-humanities program of the Faculty of Humanities at Tilburg University. Funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). 2013--2016. Value: € 224,000.

Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr. Matteo Colombo) on explanatory reasoning in the DFG Priority ProgrammNew Frameworks of Rationality (joint application with Stephan Hartmann). 2012--2015. Value: € 218,000.

Veni Scholarship for the project "An Objective Guide for Public Policy?" by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). 2010--2013. Value: € 250,000.

Total Value: € 3,761,000.

Conference Funding

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW): Conference Objectivity in Science, Tilburg, 10-12 June 2015. Value: € 3,200.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW): René Descartes Lectures, Tilburg, 20-22 October 2014. Value: € 3,600.

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS): Workshop ``Operationalization 2013'', Freiburg, 14-17 October 2013. Value: € 8,000.

German Research Foundation (DFG)Workshop ``Operationalization 2013'', Freiburg, 14-17 October 2013. Value: € 2,000.

German Research Foundation (DFG): Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts. Aachen, 10-13 September 2012. Value: € 3,000.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW): The Progress of Science, Tilburg, 25-27 April 2012. Value: € 5,500.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW): René Descartes Lectures, Tilburg, 6-8 October 2010. Value: € 5,500.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW): Workshop Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology, Tilburg, 9-10 October 2008. Value: € 3,000.

Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP): Workshop Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology, Tilburg, 9-10 October 2008. Value: € 750.

Total Value: € 31,000.

Travel Bursaries

See CV for a complete list.