RESEARCH GRANTS
Obtained more than 560,000 EUR and 560,000 AUD in Research Funding.
- 2025-2030 – Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC) – Consolidation – Team: Professor Jennifer Alonso García (CI), 275,282 EUR (70,000 EUR per year to fund a PhD bursary and related research costs)
- 2025-2030 – Belfius – Université Libre de Bruxelles Chair in Pension Decumulation – Team: Professor Jennifer Alonso García (CI), 280,000 EUR (70,000 EUR per year to fund a PhD bursary and related research costs)
- 2025-2027 – Australian Research Council – Discovery Project 2025 on « Enhancing Retirement Outcomes: The Role of Liquidity in Decumulation » (DP250102415). Team: Associate Professor Yang Shen (UNSW) (CI); Associate Professor Jonathan Ziveyi (UNSW) (CI); Professor Jennifer Alonso García (PI), $AU 532,924.00
- 2019-2022 – The Europlace Institute of Finance, project on « Household savings, retirement financing and innovation in terms of strategic allocation for long-term investors« . Team: Caroline Hillairet, Sarah Kaakai and Mohamed Mrad, 10.000 EUR
- 2019 – CEPAR Associate Investigators Travel Funds to attend the 2019 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making in Boulder (United States), $AU 4.000
- 2019 – PBSS Bursary Grant to attend the 2019 IAA Colloquium (ASTIN, IAAHS, IAALS, IACA, PBSS) in Cape Town (South Africa), $CA 1.500
- 2018 – Associate Investigator CEPAR Research Funds by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), $AU 8.000
- 2017 – Student and Research Fellow Travel Awards to attend the International Pension Workshop by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), $AU 3.000
- 2016 – CEPAR Early Career Researcher Travel Scheme grant to fund Research Visits, by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), $AU 10.000
- 2015 – Summer Research Scholarship (as supervisor) by ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), « Drawdown structures in Australia and the Netherlands », $AU 3.500 with M. Sherris
AWARDS
Personal awards
- 2019 – PBSS 2019 Best Paper Award at the IAA Colloquium (ASTIN, IAAHS, IAALS, IACA, PBSS) in Cape Town (South Africa): $CA 1.000
- 2018 – ICA 2018 Best Paper Award in the Section Aspects of Long-Term Savings: Uncertainty in Low Real Returns, Longevity and Inflation by the International Actuarial Association (IAA), 1.000 EUR
Awards for BSc, MSc, Honours and PhD papers written under my guidance
- 2018 – Hal Kendig prize for the best CEPAR PhD thesis for Mengyi Xu for her thesis « Housing and retirement savings » by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), $AU 1.000
- 2018 – ICA 2018 Best Paper Award in the International Actuarial Association Health Section (IAAHS) Section by the International Actuarial Association (IAA) for Mengyi Xu, 1.000 EUR
- 2016 – UNSW University Medal for Mr Oliver Wood for outstanding academic performance during his Honours year (which comprises coursework and the Honours Thesis)