PhD prizes and scholarships

Prizes and scholarships awarded to our postgraduate students during their finance research degrees

Mesias Alfeus

Bank of Namibia grant toward PhD studies - February 2018 (N$74,400)
Young Investigator Training Program (YITP) Prize - January 2018 (4,000 Euros)
UTS President's Scholarship - 2016
International Research Scholarship - 2016

Nihad Aliyev

2018 Multinational Finance Society Meeting Best Doctoral Paper Award (US$500)
"Learning About Toxicity: Why Order Imbalance Can Destabilize Markets".
UTS Business School Doctoral Scholarship, 2017-2018
AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant, 2017 - Ambiguous Price Formation.
QFRC Ph.D. Scholarship, 2015
UTS International Research Scholarship, 2015-2018

Marc Bohmann

Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2016-2019

Anirudh Dhawan

UTS Business School Behavioural Lab Research Grant - 2019 - A$3,000
"Getting burned by frictionless financial markets", with Benjamin Loos, Marco Navone and Talis Putnins
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2018-2021 (A$150,000)

Martin Hauptfleisch

Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2014-2017 (A$99,250)

Jonathan Ravn Karlsen

Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2017-2019 (A$155,000)

Duc Man Nguyen

Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2016-2019 (A$160,000)

Marta Khomyn

Amory Partners Best PhD Paper Award, 8th Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference - September 2018 (A$1,500).
CMCRC Best PhD paper presentation - May 2018.
SIRCA Best Paper Award,, Auckland Finance Meeting - December 2017 (NZ$1,000)
"Algos gone wild: Are order-to-trade ratios excessive?"
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre PhD Scholarship - 2016-2019 (A$80,000)

Muthe Mathias Mwampashi

CEMA 2020-2021 Young Researcher Award – June 2021
UTS President's Scholarship - 2019
International Research Scholarship – 2019

Yang Zhang

UTS Business Doctoral Scholarship - 2015-2018 (A$94,500)
International Research Scholarship - 2015-2018 (A$117,600)
Vice-Chancellor's Postgraduate Research Student Conference Fund - 2017 (A$2,000)
UTS Business School Conference Fund - 2017 (A$3,000)

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