Current and Past Fellows

SCAR initiated the Fellowship Programme in 2002. The aim is to encourage the active involvement of early career scientists in Antarctic scientific research and to build new connections and further strengthen international capacity and cooperation in Antarctic research. Since the initiation of the programme, 83 SCAR Fellowships have been awarded. Three of these fellowships were awarded jointly with our partner Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) between 2011-2015. From 2015 to 2018 a Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship was awarded annually, initially financed by funds from the Prix Biodiversité of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation awarded to SCAR.

Testimonials from past fellows are available on the archive website.

2023 Fellows

Laiza Cabral de Faria

Home: University of São Paulo, Brazil
Host: St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Using Time-Series Metagenomic Sequencing to Infer Microbial Biogeochemical Cycling in Coastal Ecosystems of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

 

Alice Oates

Home: Scott Polar Research Institute, UK
Host: Universidade Lusofona, Centro Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

Setting an agenda for disability-focused research in Antarctic Social Sciences and Humanities

 

Thomas Holmes

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: University of Washington, USA

Untangling ligand controls on iron cycling in the Southern Ocean using metabolomics

 

Liliana Margonari

Home: Instituto Antartico Argentino, Argentina
Host: University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Outlet Glacier Monitoring in the Larsen B Embayment, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula

 

2023 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Fellowship

Dieter Tetzner

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Host: UROCOLD Lab, DISAT, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Reconstructing past changes in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT)


2022 Fellows

Christian Torres web

Christian Torres

Home: Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil
Host: University of Valparaíso, Chile

High-resolution atmospheric and glaciological modelling for the South Shetland Islands on the northern Antarctic Peninsula

Maria Piotto webMaría Piotto

Home: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Host: University of Oviedo, Spain

HMSC-Antar: A quantitative approach to infer the ecological processes

 

Victoria Nuviala webVictoria Nuviala

Home: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Western Sydney University, Australia

Mapping Memories. An Architectural Biography of Antarctica

 

James Brean webJames Brean

Home: University of Birmingham, UK
Host: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Spain

NPF-POLAR: Particle formation mechanisms around the Antarctic Peninsula

 

Hanna Yevchun

2022 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Fellowship

Hanna Yevchun

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Remotely detecting and mapping biodiversity in Antarctica using VHR satellite and UAV data

 


2021 Fellows

David VendramiDavid Vendrami

Home: Bielefeld University, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Luis Hillebrand

Fernando Luis Hillebrand

Home: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Host: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Spectral linear mixing model applied to data from passive microwave radiometers for sea ice thickness mapping in the Weddell Sea 

 

Lisa Craw

Lisa Craw

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Swansea University, UK

The Geodynamic Ice-shelf Suture-zone Model (GlzMo): quantifying the influence of suture zones on the structural itnegrity of a large Antarctic ice shelf

 

Lumi Haraguchi

Lumi Haraguchi

Home: Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Host: University of Cape Town, South Africa

The influence of nano-flagellate functional types on carbon and nitrogen cycling across the Southern Ocean

 

Natalia Rosciano

Natalia Gimena Rosciano

Home: Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR), Argentina
Host: Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, USA

Using triple stable isotope analysis to quantify the trophic niches of sympatric Pygoscelis penguin species with differing responses to environmental change.


2020 Fellows

Dalia Barragan Barrera

Dalia Carolina Barragán Barrera

Home: Colombian Antarctic Program, Comisión Colombiana del Océano, Colombia
Host: Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada, Ecuador

Assessing population genetic status and mercury bioaccumulation of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula

 

Morgan Seag

Morgan Seag

Home: University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

Ievgeniia PrekrasnaIevgeniia Prekrasna

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: University of Oulu, Finland

Exploring beneficial role of endophytic bacteria for survival of Deschampsia antarctica in arid Antarctic environments using culture based and OMICS-techniques

 

Minkyoung KimMinkyoung Kim

Home: Seoul National University, South Korea
Host: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

Reconstruction of polynya development in the western Amundsen Shelf Embayment since the last deglaciation using IPSO25

2019 Fellows

Masaru Kogure webMasaru Kogure

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Hampton University, US

Impact of change in Antarctic gravity waves due to climate change on the atmosphere

 

Image Jackson Chu

Jackson Chu

Home: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

SCAR Sarah L Jackson websiteSarah Jackson

Home: The Australian National University, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey/Cambridge University, UK

Development of the 17O-excess paleoproxy: insights from a high-resolution Antarctic Peninsula core

 

Andrew Corso webAndrew Corso

Home: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, US
Host: CCAMLR, Australia

A larval fish bycatch guide for the Antarctic krill fishery

 

Kimberlee Baldry Fellow 2019Kimberlee Baldry

Home: Institute of Marine Science and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

The improvement of Biogeochemical Argo chlorophyll-a concentration data for large-scale studies of Southern Ocean phytoplankton

 

Martina Mascioni webMartina Mascioni

Home: Department of Phycology, University of La Plata, Argentina
Host: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US
Diversity of bloom-forming phytoplankton species in Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) nearshore waters

 

MiaWege webMia Wege

Home: Mammal Research Institute, South Africa
Host: Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Long-term foraging strategies and their consequences to Antarctic fur seals

 

 

Pavlovska photo webMariia Pavlovska

Home:  State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany

Exploring the interplay of Antarctic bacterioplankton and phytoplankton by integration of biodiversity, contextual, and OMICS data

 


2018 Fellows

Lettie Roach webLettie Roach

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of North Carolina, USA

The influence of nonlinear physical processes on the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice 

 

Pamela Santibanez webPamela Santibáñez

Home: Instituto Antartico Chileno, Chile
Host: Desert Research Institute, USA

Microbes within deep ice cores: Unravelling the microbial responses to climatic and ecosystem processes

 

Abhilash Nair webAbhilash Nair

Home: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India
Host: GNS Science, New Zealand

Pleistocene-Holocene variability in ACC strength and Agulhas leakage intensity

 

Bruno Fusaro webBruno Fusaro

Home: Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Host: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Molecular and epidemiological diagnosis of parasitic diseases in Pygoscelid penguins in the content of global climate change

2018 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Monica Remedios web

 Mónica Luján Remedios-De León

Home: University of the Republic, Uruguay
Host: The British Antarctica Survey, UK

Development of a non-native species management plan: Development of a non-native species management plan: Trichocera maculipennis (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands

 

2017 Fellows


Leena Riekkola

Home: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Host: Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, USA

Spatial analysis of humpback whale behaviour and habitat use patterns in Antarctica.

 

Julie Janssens

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France

Representation of iron in a sea-ice biogeochemical model.

 

Hanne Nielsen

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Framing Antarctica as Fragile: Tracing the evolution of media narratives about the far south (1945 – 2015).

 

Antonio Aguera Garcia

Home: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: University of Otago, New Zealand

Transgenerational Plasticity (TGP) and acclimation in a keystone Polar Invertebrate in response to a warmer more acidic Antarctic.

 

Filip Hrbáček

Home: Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Host: Insubria University, Italy

Effect of vegetation cover on active layer thermal regime in climatically contrasted environments of Antarctica.

 

2017 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Shramik Patil

Home: The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India
Host: UPMC-CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, France

Response of Southern Indian Ocean coccolithophores to climate change: evidence from laboratory culture experiments.

 

2016 Fellows


Lavenia Ratnarajah Fellow 2016Lavenia Ratnarajah

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, France

Effects of natural iron fertilisation by baleen whales on the microbial community in the Southern Ocean

 

Jilda Caccavo Fellow 2016Jilda Caccavo

Home: University of Padua, Italy
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

Trophic dynamics and nutritional condition of Pleuragramma antarctica in the Weddell Sea, as related to population genetic structure

 

Ryan Reisinger Fellow 2016Ryan Reisinger

Home: Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Marine Top Predator Habitat Use around the Sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands 

 

 

 

2016 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Graeme Clark Fellow 2016Graeme Clark

Home: The University of New South Wales, Australia
Host: McGill University, Canada

The final frontier: protecting Antarctica from invasive species

 

 

 

2015 Fellows


Christine Dow Fellow 2015Christine Dow

Home: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Analysis of Antarctic subglacial hydrological development in Aurora Basin using aerogeophysical data and numerical modeling

 

Jennifer Newall Fellow 2015Jennifer Newall

Home: University of Stockholm, Sweden
Host: Bremen University, Germany

MAGIC-DML – integrating ice sheet modeling and field studies

 

Sebastian Rosier Fellow 2015Sebastian Rosier

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Satellite observation and model intercomparison of tidal processes in ice-sheet grounding zones

 

2015 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Rowan Trebilco Fellow 2015Rowan Trebilco

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: (1) Collecte Localisation Satellite, Ramonville-Saint-Agne and (2) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

New models for understanding the role of mesopelagic fishes and squid in Southern Ocean ecosystems

 

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Inka Koch Fellow 2015Inka Koch

Home: University of Otago, New Zealand
Host: University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, USA

Detecting marine ice internal layers and thickness in an Antarctic ice shelf with airborne ice penetrating radar

2014 Fellows

Jaimie Cleeland Fellow 2014Jaimie Cleeland

Home: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Bottom-up and top-down influences on demographic parameters of Southern Ocean albatrosses

 

Manoj MC Fellow 2014Manoj M.C

Home: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, India
Host: Kochi University, Japan

Biomarker based reconstruction of Late Quaternary Palaeoceanographic conditions in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

 

Camila Signori Fellow 2014Camila Negrão Signori

Home: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

Microbial diversity across environmental gradients in the Southern Ocean: a spatial, temporal and vertical approach considering the climate changes

Links to resulting papers and output:
– Signori et al (2017)
Presentation at the OSC Kuala Lumpur (2016)
Award 1st Place Oral Presentation “South American Region” at OSC Kuala Lumpur (2016)

 

Fiona Shanhun Fellow 2014Fiona Shanhun

Home: Lincoln University, New Zealand
Host: St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Constraining baseline activities of Dry Valley terrestrial ecosystems: partitioning biotic and abiotic components of soil CO2 fluxes

 

2013 Fellows


Paula Casanovas Fellow 2013Paula Casanovas

Home: University of Maryland, USA
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Mapping lichen richness on the Antarctic Peninsula using remote sensing and photographic documentation by citizen scientists

Links to resulting papers:
Poster presented at Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Conference (RSPSoc14)
RSPSoc14 Proceedings Paper
Casanovas et al, Polar Research 2015, 34, 25633

 

Bella Duncan Fellow 2013Bella Duncan

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Birmingham, UK

Miocene and Pliocene Antarctic climate history from a continental perspective: Climate reconstructions using molecular and isotopic biomarker proxies

 

Luis Huckstadt Fellow 2013Luis Huckstadt

Home: University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Datasets (RAATD): Large-scale habitat use by pack-ice seals

 

Reny Tyson Fellow 2013

Reny Tyson

Home: Duke University, USA
Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

Estimating the physiology of Antarctic krill predators: a Bayesian approach

 

 SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Luis Pertierra Fellow 2013

Luis Rodriguez Pertierra

Home: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Niche modelling as a tool for invasive risk assessment of vascular plants in terrestrial Antarctica

 

2012 Fellows


Bethan Davies

Home: Aberystwyth University, UK
Host: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Understanding Holocene glacier dynamics in the NE Antarctic Peninsula, and projection of future glacier behaviour under a warming climate

Links to resulting papers:
Davies et al (2014)
Davies & Glasser (2014)

 

Elizabeth Shadwick

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: Duke University, USA

Net community production and its regulating factors in the Australian Sector of the Southern Ocean

Link to resulting paper:
Shadwick et al (2014)

 

Megumu Tsujimoto

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Is the reproductive strategy of Antarctic flowering plants changing in response to climate change?

Link to resulting paper:
Tsujimoto et al (2014)

 

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Jenson V. George

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Influence of small scale mixing on the primary productivity and water mass formation in the Southern Ocean

 

2011 Fellows


Runa Antony

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: Louisiana State University, USA

Implication of microbial processes for modifying gas records in Polar ice cores

 

Natalia Tilinina

Home: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Host: University of East Anglia, UK

Antarctic “missing” mesoscale cyclones representation in new reanalyses comparing to the satellite imagery

 

David Velázquez

Home: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Host: Montana State University, USA

Planktonic-benthic coupling in Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica)

 

2010 Fellows


Sze Ling Ho

Home: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Host: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Development of organic sea surface temperature proxy, TEX86 for application in the polar region

 

Sunil Kumar Shukla

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: University of Bordeaux, France

Diatom-based Paleoclimate Inferences from Antarctic to Subtropical Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean

 

Ernesto Molina Balari

Home: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Host: Instituto Antarctico Chileno, Chile

Bio-optical properties of Antarctic sea-ice algae

 

Francisca Vermeulen

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Tromsø, Norway

Particulate carbon and biogenic silica in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic

2009 Fellows

Jennifer Lee

Home: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Identification of glacial refugia in Antarctica

 

Nuncio Murukesh

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, USA

The link between tropical Indian Ocean processes, Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD), and sea-ice

 

Stefano Picotti

Home: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (INOGS), Italy
Host: Pennsylvania State University, USA

Ice properties and basal conditions inferred from seismic data acquired on two fast-flowing ice streams (West Antarctica)

 

Odile Volonterio

Home: Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

The Antarctic-Magellan connection: Diversity and biogeography of interstitial turbellarians in the Scotia Arc
Links to resulting papers:
Volonterio et al (2013)
Volonterio & Brewin (2014)

 

2008 Fellows


Wendy (Wilhelmina) Clavano

Home: University of Alberta, Canada
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Retrieving snow thickness over land and sea ice by improving ground penetrating radar data processing

 

Nicholas Demetras

Home: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Host: Colorado State University, USA

The role of biotic and abiotic factors in determining the distribution of soil nematode communities in an Antarctic Dry Valley system

 

Marina Verducci

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany

Middle Miocene Southern Ocean climatic and paleoceanographic evolution and Antarctic cryosphere expansion

 

SCAR/IPF/IAI/UNEP 6CI Fellowship (funded by IPF)

Ramón Hegedüs

Home: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Host: Lund University, Sweden

The role of polarized skylight in animal navigation and foraging in Antarctica

 

2007 Fellows


Igino Coco

Home: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Italy
Host: Dartmouth College, USA

The role of abrupt solar wind dynamic pressure variations on the polar ionosphere dynamics

 

Stefanie Kaiser

Home: University of Hamburg Zoological Museum, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Quantification of Southern Ocean biodiversity in space: richness and distribution of Isopoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen

 

Delphine Lannuzel

Home: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The role of iron as a micro-nutrient to the Antarctica sea zone algal

 

Glen Phillips

Home: University of Newcastle, Australia
Host: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany

Structural controls and timing of upper crustal deformation within the Lambert Basin: Contribution to geodynamic, ice-sheet and mass balance models of the Mesozoic-Tertiary evolution of East Antarctica

 

2006 Fellows


Olaf Eisen

Home: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Reconstructing Antarctic ice sheet history from internal layering, as a contribution to SCAR’s ACE and AGCS programmes

Resulting paper:
Drews, R., Martín, C., Steinhage, D. and Eisen, O., Characterizing the glaciological conditions at Halvfarryggen ice dome, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, J. Glaciology, Volume 59(213), 201, 9–20, 03/2013; doi:10.3189/2013JoG12J134

 

Nobue Kasamatsu

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Krill, dimethyl sulphide and climate change: a contribution to SCAR’s EBA, ACE and AGCS programmes

 

Stephanie Konfal

Home: Byrd Polar Research Center, USA
Host: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Antarctic Neotectonics, as a contribution to SCAR’s ANTEC programme

 

Victoria Metcalf

Home: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Host: Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Fat transport in Antarctic fish: a contribution to the EBA programme

 

Barbara Villoslada

Home: Cordoba University, Argentina
Host: University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Paleo-atmospheric circulation, as a contribution to the ACE programme

 

2005 Fellows


Narelle Baker

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Bristol, UK

The evolution of the Ross Ice Shelf as a contribution to SCAR’s ACE programme

 

Simone Brandao

Home: University of Hamburg, Germany
Host: Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Science

A molecular study of Antarctic ostracods as a contribution to SCAR’s EBA programme

 

Veronica Fuentes

Home: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Institute Sciences de la Mer at Rimouski, Canada

Nutrients and the ecosystem as a contribution to SCAR’s EBA and AGCS programmes

 

David Schneider

Home: University of Washington, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Using ice cores to determine proxies for the Southern Annular Mode, as a contribution to SCAR’s AGCS programme

 

2003-04 Asturias Fellows


Elanor M Bell

Home: University of Potsdam, Germany
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

The diversity and tropho-dynamics of mixotrophic protests in Antarctic coastal waters

 

Steven Boger

Home: University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Universität Bremen, Germany

Mesozoic evolution of the Lambert Graben, Mac.Robertson Land

 

Barbara Delmonte

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: LGGE, Université Joseph Fourier, France

Millennial and secular periodicities in Antarctic atmospheric circulation during the Holocene

Cai Minghong

Home: Polar Research Institute of China
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Ice shelf – ocean interaction at the Amery Ice Shelf, Mac.Robertson Land

 

Cristina Sobrino

Home: Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía, Spain
Host: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA

Phytoplankton photosynthetic kinetics of damage and repair in vertically mixed Antarctic waters