1) 2024 Climate change and its implications for central banks in Southern Africa grant
Awarded (10000£) by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), to develop the following research project "Climate-change, South African banks’ profitability and lending policies" (Co- authors: Laura Nieri and Helen Chiappini)
2) 2024: Best Paper Award
Selected by the scientific committee of ADEIMF 2024 as the winner of the “Best paper Awards” (€ 2000) with the paper: “Firm-level climate change risk and corporate debt structure” (Co-Authors Andrea Paltrinieri; Alessia Palma and John W. Goodell)
3) 2021: Research Committee Award
Selected by the scientific committee of the Essex Business School (EBS) to develop the following research project "How do Fintech players contribute to access to finance? Cross-country evidence".
4) 2021: Best Paper Awards
Selected by the scientific committee of the Social Impact Investments International Conference (Rome) as the winner of the “Best paper Awards” (€ 1000) with the paper: “The religious fringe of Corporate Social Responsibility” (Co-Authors Laura Chiaramonte; Alberto Dreassi; Andrea Paltrinieri; M. Kabir Hassan)
5) 2021: The British Academy
Named researcher in a grant (approximately £10k) to develop the following research project: “Socially Responsible Banks: wethering the COVID.19 storm” (Principal investigator: Claudia Girardone; Co-investigators: Laura Chiaramonte, Alberto Dreassi )
6) 2020: Best Paper Awards
Selected by the scientific committee of the Social Impact Investments International Conference (Rome) as the winner of the “Best paper Awards” (€ 1000) with the paper: Do CSR practice lead to higher firm productivity? Evidence from Europe (Co-Authors Claudia Girardone and Luca Gandullia)
7) 2020: Mediterranean Machine Learning school 2021
Winner of the merit-based scholarship to attend the Mediterranean Machine Learning school 2021 organized by the Università Bicocca, Milan.
8) 2019: Named researcher Research Committee Award (RCA)
from Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester (UK) for the following research proposal: Do ESG strategies enhance bank stability during financial turmoil? Evidence from Europe (Co-Author Laura Chiaramonte, Alberto Dreassi and Claudia Girardone)
9) 2019: Erasmus + fellowship winner
Awarded the Erasmus plus fellowship to conduct a research period of three months at Essex Business school.
10) 2019: Best Paper Awards
Selected by the scientific committee of the Social Impact Investments International Conference (Rome) as the winner of the “Best paper Awards” (€ 1000) with the paper: Do ESG strategies enhance bank stability during financial turmoil? Evidence from Europe (Co-Author Laura Chiaramonte, Alberto Dreassi and Claudia Girardone)
11) 2018: PHD Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Education
Winner of the 3-year PHD Finance fellowship at the Università di Trieste and Udine
12) 2017: ALTIS’ Merit-Based Scholarship -Milan, Italy
Selected by the Scientific Committee of ALTIS (“Alta Scuola Impresa e Società”) as a winner of a merit-based scholarship for the value of € 5000 issued by the sponsors of the second level Masters’ Degree: “Master in Finance: Instruments, markets and sustainability.”