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Before I came to CREED, I studied econometrics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My master's thesis, called 'Apples Oranges', involved comparisons of wealth, income, and price levels across countries over time. In 2004, I switched to evolutionary game theory and defended my PhD thesis 'Survival Fair', which focused on modeling the evolution of altruism, fairness, and morality. My defense was supervised by Gerard van der Laan, and I received a VENI grant from NWO (the Netherlands Science Foundation) that allowed me to continue my work in the field of boundary biology at CREED. I have benefited from regular interaction with the Maus Sabelis Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). From 2009 to 2011, I was a part of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard. In 2012, I became a member of De Jonge Akademie (The Young Academy), which is part of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
CREED, University of Amsterdam • Amsterdam, NL
Teaching and researching in the fields of microeconomics and evolutionary game theory.
Includes departments like Economics, Business Administration, Finance, and Marketing.