Grants and Awards

Grants

Coinspot Project on Australian attitudes to cryptocurrency. AUD 20,000. (2025).

RMIT AWS Computing (RACE) Merit Allocation Scheme (RMAS). AUD 5,000 (2024-2025).

EFM Small Research Grant. AUD 4,000. (2024).

CoBL Innovation Fund. Project - Improving Marketing Major via Specialization in Marketing Technology. AUD 15,112.80. (2023).

EFM Small Research Grant. AUD 4,000. (2023).

EFM Survey Data Provision Grant. AUD 5,000. (2023).

Aalto University Seed Funding. Business Transformation with Digitalization and Intellectual Property. EURO 30,000 (2016).

HSE Foundation. EURO 27,500 (2013-2017).

Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto, LSR). EURO 51,000 (2012-2017).

Marketing Science Institute for project on Social Interactions and Social Media Marketing. USD 10,250. (2014).

Marketing Science Institute for project on Modelling “Multichannel” Customer Behavior. USD 10,250. (2010).

Honors and Awards

Australasian Marketing Journal best overall paper published in 2025 for paper titled “Battle of Influence: Analysing the Impact of Brand-Directed and Influencer-Directed Social Media Marketing on Customer Engagement and Purchase Behaviour” (2025).

Winner of Marketing Science Institute’s (MSI) research competition on “Social Interactions and Social Media Marketing” (2014).

Finalist for Best European Research Paper of the Year by CIONET (2014) for paper published in Information Systems Research titled “The Effect of Customers’ Social Media Participation on Customer Visit Frequency and Profitability: An Empirical Investigation” (2014).

Winner of Marketing Science Institute/Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative’s (MSI/WCAI) grant on Modeling “Multichannel” Customer Behavior (2010).

Fellow, 46th AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium (2011), Stillwater, OK.

Fellow, INFORMS Marketing Science Consortium (2011), Houston, TX.