As from 1 March 2023, Dr Niels Rietveld takes over the position as Director of Doctoral Education from Dr Benoît Crutzen at Erasmus School of Economics. Benoît remains the Director of Graduate Studies at the Tinbergen Institute.
The Management Team is pleased to announce that Niels Rietveld will become its new Director of Doctoral Education. Vice Dean Research, Professor Kirsten Rohde, says: ‘Benoît Crutzen has been a fantastic director and I am glad that we found Niels willing to succeed Benoît in this role. Niels is a very committed colleague. I am sure he will use all his qualities to guide our PhD candidates.’
About Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld is an Associate Professor at the department of Applied Economics and Executive Director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology. His primary fields of research are "Economics and human biology" and "The economics of entrepreneurship". He is currently leading the ERC Starting Grant project "Genes, Policy, and Social Inequality." In 2022 the European Commission granted Niels Rietveld and his colleague Hans van Kippersluis with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme. The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe, to train highly skilled doctoral candidates.
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