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prof. dr. Femke van Horen

Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Marketing

Personal information

Femke van Horen is Professor of Consumer Behavior at the Marketing Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at Tilburg University and worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Social Cognition Lab of the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2013 she joined the Marketing Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the Scientific Director of the VU Behavioural Lab. 

Her work has been published in Science Advances, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Emotion, among others. She received the AMA Research in Practice Award 2019 for her Out-of-Category Brand Imitation paper (Journal of Consumer Research) and the IJRM Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2023.

Femke serves as Associate Editor for International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM). She co-chaired the European Association of Consumer Research (EACR) Conference 2023 hosted in Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (Fall 2023).

Research

Femke has three main lines of research. In her first line, she investigates the effectiveness of product imitation strategies (copycatting). Her second line of research focuses on how environmental uncertainty (e.g., uncertainty caused by economical crisis, elections) affects consumer decision-making. In her third line she investigates how nudging methods can be used to increase sustainable behavior. 

She currently co-supervises two PhD-students on the topics sustainability and product imitation, and a Postdoc on the adoptation of plant-based meat.

Teaching

Femke van Horen teaches the course Experimental Research (MSc Marketing, PhD Program) and she supervises Master Theses and PhD candidates.

Prizes and Awards
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM)
  • Winner of the American Marketing Association CB SIG Research in Practice Award 2019 for my article: “Out-of Category Brand Imitation: Product Categorization Determines Copycat Evaluation,” published in Journal of Consumer Research, 2017
  • Finalist Best Paper Award La Londe Conference 2017 (2nd prize)
  • Finalist PIM Dutch Marketing Science Award, 2011
  • Certificate of Teaching Excellence, University of Amsterdam, 2005
Grants
  • Transformative Research Seeding Grant, ACR and Sheth Foundation (€2,000 and €1,200)
  • Career Grant for Young Researchers, University of Cologne (€6,000)
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (€8,500)
  • Catherina van Tussenbroek Fonds (€2,500)
  • British Council (€4,000)
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