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).