Holmer Kok and Niels van der Laan win SOM Awards 2018
Research school SOM presented the 2018 Awards for Best Graduate of the Research Master and best PhD Thesis at the PhD Conference last Tuesday. Niels van der Laan won € 1,000 and the title Best Graduate of the Research Master in Economics and Business. Holmer Kok won € 1,500 and the SOM Award for the best PhD research.
Van der Laan (profile: Business Analytics & Econometrics), was honored for his thesis Generalized α-approximations of two-stage mixed-integer recourse models, supervised by Ward Romeijnders and Ruud Teunter. The runners-up were Bart Claassen and Ruben van Beesten.
Kok, currently Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, was honored for his thesis To Complete a Puzzle, You Need to Put the Right Pieces in the Right Place: Exploring Knowledge Recombination and the Creation of New Inventions, supervised by Dries Faems and Pedro de Faria. The runners-up were Eduard Suari Andreu and Beatriz Rodriguez Sanchez.
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