- NWO Science Diplomacy Fund “Multilingualism: an impetus for education and the economy” (2020)
- Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme (with University of Hyderabad, India) (2020)
- DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award (2019)
- The University of Western Australia (UWA) - Research Collaboration Award; external co-investigator on funded project titled “Picture-naming, synonymy and language divergence in bilinguals” (2018)
- The Multilingual Mind (MultiMind), Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) - Innovative Training Networks (ITN) a PhD grant for a project titled “Processing grammatical gender across languages: Effects of typological distance and cognates” (2017-2021)
- Language in interaction, NWO Gravitation program - PhD grant for a project titled "Do brain potentials reflect individuals' potential to learn a second language? Individual differences in language interaction during L2 acquisition" (2016 - 2020)
- Gratama-Stichting/Leiden Universiteits Fonds (LUF) – subsidie for a project titled “Automatische tekstreductie bij real-time ondertiteling voor doven en slechthorenden” (2013- 2014)
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) a grant for a project called “Orthographic priming of picture naming: Effects of semantic radicals on facilitation in naming” (2011 – 2014)
- Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in the Humanties and Social Sciences supporting a sabbatical at the NIAS (September 2010 – June 2011), including a grant of teaching substitution
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – De Jonge Akademie (DJA) with Monika Schmid, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) supporting a workshop on “Aspects of bilingual processing of grammatical gender” (2010)
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – De Jonge Akademie (DJA) supporting a stay at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2010)
- Open Competition grant 2004 of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2006-2009) [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], Den Haag (The Netherlands)
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – De Jonge Akademie (DJA) with Monika Schmid, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) supporting a workshop on “Cognitive and structural aspects of multilingual linguistic systems in acquisition, processing, and attrition” (2009)
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – De Jonge Akademie (DJA) supporting a stay at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2009)
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – De Jonge Akademie (DJA) with Monika Schmid, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) supporting a workshop on “Levels of abstraction in the investigation of language development” (2008)
- Honorary Research Associate of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) (2007)
- Australian Social Science Association (ASSA) visitor’s grant (2006) supporting a stay at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Open Competitie 2004 of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2006-2009) [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek]
- Tanswisselleerstoel (Tans alternating professorship) of the Universiteitsfonds Limburg (University Funds Limburg)/SWOL (2006)
- NWO Fonds Internationalisering Sociale Wetenschappen (Fonds IWS) grant for the workshop “10e Wintercongres van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (NVP))”
- Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – Appointment as member of De Jonge Akademie [The Young Academy] (2005-2009).
- Australian Social Science Association (ASSA) visitor’s grant (2005) supporting a stay at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) visitor’s grant to stay at the MACCS as a Visiting Fellow from 1 October to 12 December 2005. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Vernieuwingsimpuls (VICI) of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2003-2008) [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek]
- Academy Researcher of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) (2000-2005) [Akademie-Onderzoeker van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen]
- Post-doctoral stipend (1999) in the area of Neuropsychology in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
- German American Academic Council (GAAC) – Fellowship for the German and American Young Scholars' Institute 1998/99 on "The Evolution of Intelligence: The Comparative Analysis of Cognition"
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung – Feodor-Lynen stipend (1998)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (MPG) – Otto-Hahn-Medaille (1997)
- The International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP) – Research Grant 1995 and 1997 for the study entitled "The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition"
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (MPG) – PhD stipend (1994-1997) for the project on "The Role of the Syllable in Speech Production"