Curriculum Vitae

Name:             Pels
Given names:  Antonius Jacobus Henricus (Eric)
Date of birth:   July 16, 1969
Place of birth:  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nationality:      Dutch

Academic employment










Dr. Eric Pels

Assistant Professor at VU University Amsterdam
• Junior researcher at the Economics and Social Institute, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1994.
• Junior researcher at the department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1995.
• Assistant researcher / Ph.D. candidate at Tinbergen Institute / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1996-2000.
• Post-doc at the department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the MASTERPOINT, 2000-2006.
• Assistant professor at the department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2006-present, tenured term.
Awards
• Winner of the Regional Science Association Internanational Dissertation Competition, 2000.
• Runner-up for the best conference paper, Canadian Transportation Research Forum (with G. Debrezion and P. Rietveld), for the paper "Effects of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City: a comparison of competitive and segmented land markets", published in Environment and Planning A (2007), 2005.
• Highly Cited Author Award, Journal of Urban Economics, for the paper "The economics of airport congestion pricing", co-authored with Erik Verhoef, which was one of the 10 most cited articles 2004-2008 published in the Journal of Urban Economics, 2009.