Quinton Mayne (MWP) received two dissertation awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA): the Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award from the European Politics and Society Section of APSA and the Best Dissertation Award from the Urban Politics Section of APSA. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (LAW) was awarded a 60-month European Research Council grant, with a total funding of around 2 million euros, for the project entitled ‘European Regulatory Private Law: the Transformation of European Private Law from Autonomy to Functionalism in Competition and Regulation (ERPL)’. Friederike Niepmann (Researcher, ECO) with Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Researcher, ECO) received the Klaus Liebscher Award from the Austrian Central Bank for their paper ‘Bank Bailouts, International Linkages and Cooperation’. Ilias Ntinas (SPS) was awarded the first Linz Rokkan Prize for the best EUI thesis in the field of political sociology engaging with a theme in the broadly defined fields of the works of Juan Linz and Stein Rokkan. Ignacio Perez-Arriago (RSCAS) was nominated to the Board of Appeal of ACER, the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. Maria Grazia Porcedda (Researcher, LAW) was awarded the Edoardi Ruffini prize by Accademia Nazional Dei Lincei for her project on Privacy and Sociality, based on the research carried out at the EUI. Clara Portela (EUI alumna, SPS) was awarded the 2011THESEUS Prize for Promising Research on European Integration for her monograph European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2010), based on her 2008 Ph.D. thesis. Pippo Ranci (RSCAS) was elected Chairman of the Board of Appeal of ACER, the European Agency for the Cooperationof Energy Regulators. Antonella Romano (HEC) was awarded the ‘médaille de la ville de Tours’ at the Centre d’Etudes supérieures de la Renaissance for her work on Renaissance studies. Thomas Sargent, (EUI honorary doctorate and Fernand Braudel Fellow, ECO), with Christopher Sims (Princeton University) was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics. Martin Scheinin (LAW) was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty
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of Law at the University of Turku (Finland). He is also involved in two projects which have been awarded Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) funding: SURPRISE, a project on the relationship between privacy and security and SURVEILLE, a project with nine partners on the legal limitations to the use of selected surveillance technologies. Both projects will start in 2012. Andrei Sirchenko (Researcher, ECO) was awarded a research grant of €4600 in the Third National Bank of Poland’s Open Research Competition for his project ‘Middle-inflated discrete-choice models for policy interest rate’. Violet Soen (MWP) received the Erik Duverger Award from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KoninklijkeVlaamseAcademie van BelgiëvoorWetenschappen en Kunsten) for her dissertation on noble and Habsburg peace attempts during the Dutch Revolt. Sven Steinmo (SPS) won the 2011 Gunnar Myrdal Prize for his book The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and was awarded the 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project ‘Willing to Pay? Testing Historical Institutionalism with Experiments’. Pierre-Marie Valenne (Researcher, ECO) was awarded Officer of the Order of Merit by the Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for special merits in the interest of research in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Until 2010, he was Vice-President of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s National Research Fund. Patricio Andres Valenzuela Aros (Researcher, ECO) received an award for one of the best European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial papers. Fernando Vega-Redondo (ECO) was elected to the Council of the Game Theory Society and he also won the second Urratia Elejalde Foundation (UEF) Diversity Prize. Helen Wallace (former RSCAS) received the title ‘Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire’ for social science. Nikoleta Yordanova (SPS) won the the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Prize for Best Dissertation in EU studies, for her 2010 Ph. D. thesis. Rebecca Zahn (MWP) received the European Trade Union Confederation’s Brian Bercusson Prize for her PhD for its contribution to European Labour Law in 2011.