Holmer Kok and Niels van der Laan win SOM Awards 2018
![Rian Drogendijk, Holmer Kok's supervisor Pedro de Faria, Beatriz Rodriguez Sanchez and Eduard Suari Andreu.](/feb/news/2019/190328-som-awards1.jpg)
Research school SOM presented the 2018 Awards for Best Graduate of the Research Master and best PhD Thesis at the PhD Conference last Tuesday. Niels van der Laan won € 1,000 and the title Best Graduate of the Research Master in Economics and Business. Holmer Kok won € 1,500 and the SOM Award for the best PhD research.
Van der Laan (profile: Business Analytics & Econometrics), was honored for his thesis Generalized α-approximations of two-stage mixed-integer recourse models, supervised by Ward Romeijnders and Ruud Teunter. The runners-up were Bart Claassen and Ruben van Beesten.
Kok, currently Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, was honored for his thesis To Complete a Puzzle, You Need to Put the Right Pieces in the Right Place: Exploring Knowledge Recombination and the Creation of New Inventions, supervised by Dries Faems and Pedro de Faria. The runners-up were Eduard Suari Andreu and Beatriz Rodriguez Sanchez.
![Rian Drogendijk, Bart Claassen, Ruben van Beesten and Niels van der Laan.](/feb/news/2019/190328-som-awards2.jpg)
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