Fellowships, grants and awards
| 2021-2026 |
ERC-Advanced Grant: Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam |
| 2009-14 | NWO VIDI scholarship: Of Poetry and Politics: Classical Poetic Concepts in New Politics of Twentieth Century Iran |
| 2002-06 | NWO VENI scholarship: A History of Early Literary Riddles: the Emergence of Persian Riddle Poetry and its Impact on Poetic Diction |
| 1997 | Four-year full-time PhD scholarship at NWO (“onderzoeker in opleiding”), placed at Leiden University |
| 2001 | NWO- Postdoctoral grant |
| 2001 |
Bonus for completing PhD-thesis within the allotted time from the Centre for Non-Western Studies of Leiden University |
| 2007-2012 |
Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) |
| 2013-2014 | Fellow at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) |
| 2012-2016 | Elected Member of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| 2014- present |
Research Fellow at SOAS (London) |
| 2010-2012 |
Elected Board Member to the Council of the International Society for Iranian Studies |