UBS Center Newsletter July 2018

17 UBS CENTER SCHOLARSHIPS Quick facts Level of study: PhD candidates Offered: Annually Number of awards: 3 (for entry in September) Value: Approx. CHF 42,500 p.a. plus tuition fees Duration: 4 years Next application closing date: 31 January 2019 www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/scholarships.html We are happy to announce that the 2018 UBS Center Scholarship was awarded to an outstanding young talent. The scholarship recipient was selected from several hundred applicants to the Zurich Graduate School of Economics (Zurich GSE). Our new doctoral student Urša Krenk from Slovenia will join us from Princeton University, where she worked as a re- search assistant at the Department of Psychology. Prior to that, she gained experience working for nonprofit organizations in Uganda and Kenya and at the Directorate of Competition at the EU Com- mission. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Her research interests lie in the field of applied microeconomics as well as in behavioral, develop- ment and experimental economics. Urša will join the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Zurich in September 2018. We wish her great success with her studies and look forward to welcoming her to Zurich. New UBS Center Scholarship holder 2018 SCHOLARSHIPS New scholarship holder Urša Krenk.

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