Grants

Awards, Fellowships, & Grants

GFF International Postdoctoral Fellowship. (2024-Current). University of St. Gallen. Award Amount: 295.9K CHF. Awarded a competitive three-year international fellowship to conduct research on the strategy of organizational sustainability transitions.

HSG Impact Award. (2021). Co-recipient of the University of St. Gallen 2021 Impact Award for “Staying on Top of the Crisis: Tracking the Economic and Social Impacts of SARS-CoV 2 and Future Disasters to Improve Global Disaster Management Response Efforts,” with Charlotta Siren, Dietmar Grichnik, and Joakim Wincent.

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Best Paper Proceedings. (2021). Conference presentation “Adversity and Venture Performance: Is Adverse Media Coverage Really That Bad for Entrepreneurial Ventures?” selected for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Best Paper Proceedings and included in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.

Starr International Foundation & ETH Zürich Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Program. (2015-2017). ETH Zürich. Award Amount: 33K CHF. Awarded an endowed scholarship for graduate studies at ETH Zürich.

Grants (Supported)

Institute lead, Swiss National Science Foundation Indo-Swiss Collaboration Grant “Investigating Informal Entrepreneurship in Indian Slums with Satellite Data.” (2024-Current). University of St. Gallen.

Siren, Charlotta, Grichnik, Dietmar, Wincent, Joakim, & George, Gerard. (2020-2023). Swiss National Science Foundation Grant #31CA30_196293: Tracking and Managing the Economic and Social Impacts of COVID-19 through Collective Emotions, Media Traces, and Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Data. Award Amount 296.9K CHF (Approx. 320.6K USD).

I led the conceptualization, drafting, and implementation of this two-year Swiss National Science Foundation grant, which used emerging data sources — including satellite-based remote sensing data and digital media trace data — to investigate the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which funded my Ph.D. studies from Spring 2020 to Summer 2023.