Grants and Scholarships

(Conference grants are not listed here – see Conferences.)

2009

Grant of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science to be a visiting fellow at the Centre (two months).

Grant from Munich Re for the Project 'Prediction in Non-Linear Climate Models' [This is a personal research grant to buyout my teaching for the academic year 2008/09.]

Grant for the project ‘The Philosophy of science in a European Perspective’, European Science Foundation. The project leader is Gereon Wolters. [This is a large project which is divided into five subprojects. I am a member of the subproject that is dedicated to the philosophy of physics.]

2006 - 2008

Grant for the Project ‘Representation and Explanation in Science’, Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (HUM2005-04369). The project leader is José Díez.

2006 - 2007

Grant of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to spend the academic year 2006-07 as a researcher at the University of Barcelona (Official name of the grant: Ayudas para estancias de profesores extranjeros en régimen de sabático en España; reference number SB2005-0167).

Grant for the Project ‘Modelos y Teorías en Biología’ (Models and Theories in Biology), financed by the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, dependiente de la Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (PICT2003, código No 14261), Argentina. The project leader is Pablo Lorenzano.

Lakatos Scholarship, Lakatos Foundation, London.

Overseas Research Student Award, British Ministry of Education.

Research Grant of the Swiss National Foundation.

LSE Research Studentship.

Grant of the Dr. Max Husmann-Stiftung, Zürich, Switzerland.

Grant of the Novartis Foundation for Research, Basel, Switzerland.

Grant of the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland.

Grant of the Janggen-Pöhn Stiftung, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Prizes

2006

The paper 'The Biomechanical Influence of Tibio-Talar Containment on Stability of the Ankle Joint' that I co-authored with A. Frigg (first author), O. Magerkurth, V. Valderrabano, H.-P. Ledermann and B. Hintermann won the 2006 'Award for Best Paper in Ligament and Biomechanics' of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. My contribution to the paper consists in the biomechanical models; my co-authors are responsible for the gathering of the clinical data and the statistics.

1998

Elected Member of the Schweizerische Studienstiftung (the national society for the support of gifted young people).