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Nominated for the 2023/2024 NSTF-South32 Awards in the category “TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Researcher.”
Awarded as a primary investigator (PI) with the EXCITE 3rd Transnational Access 2023 (access to research facilities in Europe), project number EXCITE_TNA_C3_2023_05. Project title "Impact-induced deformation and melting in experimentally-shocked accessory minerals."
Awarded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the “Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration – Visiting Foreign Researcher” grant to invite Dr Richard Wirth (GFZ-Potsdam) to conduct a workshop in UWC “FIB/TEM: Applications in Geosciences,” 2023.
Awarded as a PI by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 2021-2023, project title "Meteorite impact geothermobarometers and geochronometers derived from nano-structures in shocked accessory minerals," https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/elizaveta.kovaleva/sec35.
Awarded as a PI by the Russian Science Foundation with the President program “Scientific research conducted by a team under the leadership of young scientists,” 2021-2022, project title "Study of shock micro-deformation in accessory minerals and its application in geothermobarometry of impactites," https://rscf.ru/project/21-77-10019/. The project was closed after 1 year due to the political situation in Russia.
National Research Foundation (NRF) rating Y2, 2021-2026.
Received an award to come as an Invited Lecturer for two weeks at the University of Lille, France, in 2020. The trip was canceled due to the pandemic.
Received funding from DSI-NRF CIMERA for the MSc student 2020-2022. Project title "Dolerite sills within iron ore of Maremane Dome (Northern Cape, South Africa) as possible time markers and stratigraphic control units."
Received funding from the Postgraduate School, UFS, for a 3-day long writing retreat for the Department of Geology at the Golden Gate Nature Reserve, 2019.
Awarded by the Directorate for Research Development, University of the Free State, for the interdisciplinary project GRAVITAS (“Geological Research and Analysis of Vredefort Impact with Timely Anthropological Studies”) – a collaborative project between the Department of Geology, Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Groundwater Studies, 2019-2020, https://www.ufs.ac.za/giving/donate-here-to-ufs/ia-projects/gravitas-(grv).
Awarded by the Meteoritical Society Travel Award Committee with a travel grant for early-career scientists to attend the 81st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2018.
A poster titled “From the Vredefort impact structure to Lunar tectonics: a possible key to distinguish geological processes” presented at the EGU General Assembly 2018, was selected as a highlight of the Tectonics and Structural Geology session
Awarded by Minerals – an open-access journal of mining & mineral processing (MDPI academic publisher) with a travel grant to attend the EGU 2018.
Awarded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the “Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration – Local Travel” grant to attend the IMSG 2018.
Won the EGU Imaggeo Photo Contest 2017 for the photograph "Movement of ancient sand" (Fig. 20).
Figure 20. A low-resolution copy of the award-winning image "Movement of Ancient Sand".
A talk titled “Pseudotachylitic breccia in mafic and felsic rocks, or: Do lithology and rheology affect the development of pseudotachylitic breccia?” presented at the EGU General Assembly 2017 was selected as a highlight of Tectonics and Structural Geology session.
Awarded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) with Freestanding Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017 – 2018.
A paper by Kovaleva and Klötzli (2017) titled "NanoSIMS study of seismically deformed zircon: Evidence of Y, Yb, Ce and P re-distribution and resetting of radiogenic Pb" was selected as a “Notable Article” of the month by the American Mineralogist editorial board.
Awarded by the Geohost program, which covered the full conference, travel, and accommodation expenses to attend the 35th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Cape Town, 2016.
Awarded at the Igneous Metamorphic Studies Group (IMSG) 8th annual meeting (Langebaan, South Africa, 2016) by the organizing committee for the best talk presenting the results of the Ph.D. project. Talk title "How Does The Kinematic Framework Affect Deformation Microstructures In Zircon:
Geometric relationship and implications for geochronology."Awarded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the “Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration – Africa interaction” grant to visit research laboratories at Wits University, 2015-2016.
A paper by Kovaleva et al. (2015) titled "Planar microstructures in zircon from paleo-seismic zones" was selected as a “Notable Article” of the month by the American Mineralogist editorial board.
Awarded in 2008 and 2009, for presenting the scientific results at the Annual Conference of Students and Young Scientists at the Moscow State University, Petrology Department.
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