Awards

Travel Grant: The Program on Networked Governance, Kennedy School of Government, SIENA Workshop (Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis), University of Groningen (The Netherlands), (January 16-21, 2006)

Grant: Evaluation of the State Health Officials Leadership Initiative (SHLI): A Social Network Analysis of Tie Decay and Knowledge Sharing, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Co-Investigator (January 1, 2006-December 31, 2006)

Grant: "Studying the "Laboratories" of Democracy: The Diffusion of Knowledge among State and local DNA Labs", Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Co-Investigator (September 2005 - August 2006)

Fellowship, The Program on Networked Governance, Kennedy School of Government, ICPSR Summer School 2005, Social Network Anlaysis class in Bloomington, IN (July 2005).

Travel grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), Participation in EGOS (European Study Group), annual conference in Berlin (July/August 2005).

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, The Program on Networked Governance (USA) (2005-2006).

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, National Center for Digital Government (USA) (2004-2005).

Fellowship National Science Foundation, Summer School Grant, “Webshop” on Internet Research Methods, University of Maryland, College Park (USA) (July 2004).

Doctoral Fellowship (competition winner), Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, National Center for Digital Government (USA) (2003-2004).

Swiss National Science Foundation, Fellowship aimed at fostering young scientific talents, pre-doctoral fellowship, in residence at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, National Center for Digital Government (USA) (2002-2003).

Swiss National Science Foundation, Fellowship for Courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Inter-University Consortium For Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) (June – August 2003).

Swiss National Science Foundation, Fellowship for Courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, Essex (UK) (July-August 2002).

Socrates-Erasmus Exchange Program: student fellowship, in residence Leiden University, Netherlands (1996/1997).