Academic Awards and Grants
2025
Biodiversity on a Changing Planet-Implementation, National Science Foundation (NSF): US-South Africa: Surviving A Super Greenhouse: Terrestrial Biodiversity Dynamics During The Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (Co-PI. Directed by Dr Lindsay Zanno, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences & Dr Ryan Tucker, Stellenbosch University; 01/05/2025–31/04/2029). Budget Proposed: $5,445,765; Recommended: $3,300,000. Grant number: EAR-2448142.
2024
OPUS 26 LAP/Weave by The National Science Center, Poland (Co-PI) for the project entitled “Global drivers of plesiosaur diversity during intervals of intense community change in Mesozoic marine ecosystems” (11/06/2024–10/06/2028) and funded at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld, Germany and at the University of Chicago, US (€ 287.094; £241,770; $ 312,592.25). Grant number: 2023/51/B/NZ8/00899. LINK.
2023
Newton International Fellowship by The Royal Society (Grant number: NIF\R1\231802) for the project entitled “Extinction, recovery, migration, and adaptation during ancient hyperthermals” and funded at University College London, Department of Earth Sciences (£421,323.96). LINK.
2021
Juan De La Cierva-Formación fellowship by Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for the project "Deep Time Macroecology and Paleontology" at Mapas lab, Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, Universidad de Vigo, Spain (~52,600 €). Grant number: FJC2020-044836-I/MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. LINK
Janet Watson Prize for Research (postgraduate award) from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 10 th February 2021 (£1,000). LINK
2020
Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize (Best Presentation) of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP meeting 2020 (held virtually), US, 13 – 17 October 2020 ($750). LINK
2019
Harold Reading Medal from the British Sedimentological Research Group, Geological Society of London, London, UK – 14 December 2019. LINK
2018
Highly Commended Abstract at the Macroecology Special Interest Group annual meeting of the British Ecological Society in St. Andrews, Scotland – 10 - 11 July 2018.
Transmitting Science Best PhD presentation award at European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists at Caparica, Lisboa – 30th June 2018.
Palaeontological Association Undergraduate Travel Grant to present at the 2018 Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Caparica, Lisboa (£200) – 4th April 2018.
2015
Janet Watson PhD Departmental Scholarship at Imperial College London (~£48,000) – March 2015.
2014
CoNISMa (National Inter-university Consortium for Sea Sciences and CNR [National Research Council] (~€2,982.20) – October 2014 – December 2014.
Associate curator at the Earth Science Museum - University of Catania for the paleontological exhibition: “Biodiversity in the Sea – the tale from fossils” (exhibitor and preparator).
2012
Best Oral Presentation from an Early Career Researcher (under 35) at ‘Paleodays 2012: 12th Annual Conference of Italian Paleontology’ (€200) – 26th May 2012.