PROJECTS
Grants and fellowships awarded as PI
Current
Paleoenvironmental monitoring of pre-industrial mining landscapes (MININGSCAPES)
Ayudas para Incentivar la Consolidación Investigadora - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
PI: Dr López-Merino (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Amount awarded: €198.184,00
Ref.: CNS2022-135247
September 2023 - August 2025
A palaeoecological approach to the functional ecology of peatlands: insights into the conservation of a key carbon sink (PALAEOFUN)
Plan Estatal del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - Proyectos de I+D+i Retos Investigación - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
PI: Dr López-Merino (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Amount awarded: €139,150 + a FPI scholarship
Ref.: PID2020-115580RB-I00
September 2021 - August 2024
Long-term ecology of natural carbon sinks: from proxy data to conservation under global change (ECOSINK)
Comunidad de Madrid - Programa de Atracción de Talento de la Comunidad de Madrid (modalidad 1)
PI: Dr López-Merino (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Amount awarded: €304,955.84
Ref.: 2019-T1/AMB-12782
July 2020 - Oct 2024
Finished
Conservation palaeobiology of terrestrial and marine carbon sinks (PALAEOCON)
European Commission - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
PI: Dr López-Merino (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Amount awarded: €241,398.72
Ref.: 833422
September 2019 - August 2022 (finished in June 2020)
I also obtained a 3-year JIN project (Proyectos I+D+i «Retos Investigación» jóvenes investigadores, €212,960) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities. I renounced, as I accepted the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.
Miners, metallurgists and their cultural and physical environment: an intimate long-term relationship
Brunel Researcher Visibility Award
PIs: Dr Anguilano & Dr López-Merino (Brunel University London)
Amount awarded: £3692
October 2016 - March 2017
Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time
Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC Science in Culture Early Career Developmental Awards
PI: Dr Downing (Falmouth). Co-Is: Dr López-Merino (Brunel), Dr Fearnley (UCL), Dr Krus (Glasgow), Dr Irvine (Cambridge)
Amount awarded: £79,676
Ref.: AH/N007182/1
March 2016 - August 2017
Posidonia as environmental archive: long-term ecology and conservation views
Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowship
PI: Dr López-Merino (Brunel University London)
Amount awarded: £87,000
Ref.: ECF-2013-530
January 2014 - December 2016
I also obtained the Juan de la Cierva fellowship (a 3-year fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness). I renounced, as I accepted the Leverhulme one
Patterns and processes of vegetation change for the Iberian Holocene
Ministerio de Educación -Estancias de movilidad posdoctoral
PI: Dr López-Merino (Brunel University London)
Amount awarded: €50,400
October 2010 - September 2012
Collaboration in projects (since PhD awarded)
✅ ONGOING: 2022-2026 – Patrimonio cultural amenazado. Monitorización y evaluación del impacto de procesos erosivos sobre bienes histórico-arqueológicos del Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas. €52,335.35. PI: Dr Jorge Sanjurjo Sánchez (Universidade da Coruña). Spanish Autonomous Organism of National Parks
2020-2021 – Linking plant functional traits with palaeoecological proxies in peatland habitats to improve resilience to drivers of environmental change. £11,840. PI: Dr Kerry A. Brown. Royal Society International Exchanges Grant
2015-2018 – Millenary changes in the ecosystems of insular National Parks: perturbations, resilience, and trends after the seagrass archives (PALEOPARK). €111,035. PI: Dr Miguel A. Mateo. Spanish Autonomous Organism of National Parks
2011-2013 – Response of peatlands to Upper Pleistocene and Holocene climate changes: temperate and boreal regions. €121,000. PI: Prof. Antonio Martínez Cortizas. Spanish Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness
2011-2012 – Resolving the deposition pattern of the Dead Sea laminae and its implication for understanding hydro-climatic short-term variations in the Levant. £30,000. PI: Prof. Suzanne Leroy. British Council
2010-2011 – From the point of view of an archaeologist, can Triticum urartu be identified by pollen analysis? £10,000. PI: Prof. Suzanne Leroy. British Academy
2009-2012 – Origins and spread of agriculture in the south-western Mediterranean region. €1,545,169. PI: Dr Leonor Peña Chocarro. European Research Council – Advanced Grants