Awards
- Ditmore Scholar award, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2025.
- French Bioinorganic Chemistry (FrenchBIC), 08/2022 (link).
- Young investigator, Se2017 conference, Stockholm, Sweden (link)
Funding
2025
Nov – present: Humboldt Research Fellowship (Experienced Researchers), Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hanover, Germany (collaboration with Axel Schippers)
Jan-July: Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (collaboration with John Stolz)
2024
EXCITE2 Network, University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary (collaboration with Mihaly Posfai)
COST Actions: CA19116 (PLANTMETALS), CA20127 (WIRE), CA20133 (FULLRECO4US), CA2115 (Iron-sulphur (FeS) clusters)
2023
EXCITE Network, University of Granada, Spain (collaboration with Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo) (here)
COST Actions: CA20133 (FULLRECO4US), CA20127 (WIRE), CA18113 (EuroMicropH)
2022
EMBO Fellowship, BIP, CNRS, Marseille, France. Host: Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet (here).
FrenchBIC (Bioinorganic Chemistry), Implemented at: BIP, CNRS, Marseille, France (here).
2021
DAAD Fellowship, University of Tübingen, Germany. Host: Andreas Kappler (here).
COST Action CA18113, University Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Host: Daniela de Biase (here).
2019
French Government Fellowship (BGF), ISTerre, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France. Host: Laurent Charlet (here).
2018-2020
UEFISCDI, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chemistry Department, Politechnic University of Bucharest, Romania (Awarded and declined).
2018-2022
Sonata Project, National Science Center (NCN), Institute of Bacterial Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland (here). Principal investigator (PI)
2017-2018
DAAD Fellowship, IFK, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Host: Günter Scheffknecht (here).
2012-2013
Fulbright Fellowship, Biology Department (Elizabeth Pilon-Smits here) and Chemistry Department (Christopher Ackerson here), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
2010-2014
PhD Fellowship, Erasmus Mundus, ETeCoS3 programme, UNESCO-IHE (Delft, Netherlands, Piet Lens here) and Université Paris Est (Paris, France, Eric van Hullebusch here).
2009-2010
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Scholarship, Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France. Host: Mehmet Oturan (here).
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