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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, 89 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.

SCAR would like to thank the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation for their continued support. In 2024, as in 2023, additional funding is being provided by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation through the Polar Initiative. We also acknowledge the support from the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) through the Sejong Fellowship. The Fellowship supports recipients from under-represented groups in the SCAR community.

All available Fellowship Reports can be found in our SCAR library. Further testimonials from past fellows are available on the archive website.

2024 Fellows

Amilcar Juarez

Home: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Host: University of Tasmania, Australia

Robbie Mallett

Home: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway

Host: University of Calgary, Canada

Shradha Agarwal

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia

Host: University of Groningen, Netherlands

Byeong-Hoon Kim (Sejong Fellow)

Home: Korea Polar Research Institute, Republic of Korea

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Laura Dalman (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

Host: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway

2023 Fellows

Laiza Cabral de Faria

Home: University of São Paulo, Brazil

Host: St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Alice Oates

Home: Scott Polar Research Institute, UK

Host: Universidade Lusofona, Centro Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

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Thomas Holmes

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia

Host: University of Washington, USA

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Liliana Margonari

Home: Instituto Antartico Argentino, Argentina

Host: University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Dieter Tetzner (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Host: UROCOLD Lab, DISAT, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy

2022 Fellows

Christian Torres

Home: Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil

Host: University of Valparaíso, Chile

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María Piotto

Home: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Host: University of Oviedo, Spain

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Victoria Nuviala

Home: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Host: Western Sydney University, Australia

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James Brean

Home: University of Birmingham, UK

Host: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Spain

Hanna Yevchun (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

2021 Fellows

David Vendrami

Home: Bielefeld University, Germany

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

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Fernando Luis Hillebrand

Home: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Host: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Lisa Craw

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

Host: Swansea University, UK

Lumi Haraguchi

Home: Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Host: University of Cape Town, South Africa

Natalia Gimena Rosciano

Home: Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR), Argentina

Host: Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, USA

2020 Fellows

Dalia Carolina Barragán Barrera

Home: Colombian Antarctic Program, Comisión Colombiana del Océano, Colombia

Host: Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada, Ecuador

Morgan Seag

Home: University of Cambridge, UK

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

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Ievgeniia Prekrasna

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine

Host: University of Oulu, Finland

Minkyoung Kim

Home: Seoul National University, South Korea

Host: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

2019 Fellows

Masaru Kogure

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan

Host: Hampton University, US

Jackson Chu

Home: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

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Sarah Jackson

Home: The Australian National University, Australia

Host: British Antarctic Survey/Cambridge University, UK

Andrew Corso

Home: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, US

Host: CCAMLR, Australia

Kimberlee Baldry

Home: Institute of Marine Science and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

Martina Mascioni

Home: Department of Phycology, University of La Plata, Argentina

Host: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US

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Mia Wege

Home: Mammal Research Institute, South Africa

Host: Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Mariia Pavlovska

Home: State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine

Host: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany

2018 Fellows

Lettie Roach

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Host: University of North Carolina, USA

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Pamela Santibáñez

Home: Instituto Antartico Chileno, Chile

Host: Desert Research Institute, USA

Abhilash Nair

Home: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India

Host: GNS Science, New Zealand

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Bruno Fusaro

Home: Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina

Host: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

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Mónica Luján Remedios-De León (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: University of the Republic, Uruguay

Host: The British Antarctica Survey, UK

2017 Fellows

Leena Riekkola

Home: University of Auckland, New Zealand

Host: Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, USA

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Julie Janssens

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France

Hanne Nielsen

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia

Host: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

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Antonio Aguera Garcia

Home: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Host: University of Otago, New Zealand

Filip Hrbáček

Home: Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Host: Insubria University, Italy

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Shramik Patil (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India

Host: UPMC-CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, France

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2016 Fellows

Lavenia Ratnarajah

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

Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, France

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Jilda Caccavo

Home: University of Padua, Italy

Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

Ryan Reisinger

Home: Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Host: Australian Antarctic Division

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Graeme Clark (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: The University of New South Wales, Australia

Host: McGill University, Canada

2015 Fellows

Christine Dow

Home: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

Host: Australian Antarctic Division

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Jennifer Newall

Home: University of Stockholm, Sweden

Host: Bremen University, Germany

Sebastian Rosier

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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Rowan Trebilco (FPA2 Fellow)

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Host: Collecte Localisation Satellite, Ramonville-Saint-Agne and Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

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Inka Koch (SCAR-COMNAP Fellow)

Home: University of Otago, New Zealand

Host: University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, USA

2014 Fellows

Jaimie Cleeland

Home: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

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Manoj M.C.

Home: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, India

Host: Kochi University, Japan

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Camila Negrão Signori

Home: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Host: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

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Fiona Shanhun

Home: Lincoln University, New Zealand

Host: St Francis Xavier University, Canada

2013 Fellows

Paula Casanovas

Home: University of Maryland, USA

Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Fellowship Report | Paper in Polar Research 34 | RSPSoc14 Proceedings Paper | View more

Bella Duncan

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Host: University of Birmingham, UK

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Luis Huckstadt

Home: University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Reny Tyson

Home: Duke University, USA

Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Luis Rodriguez Pertierra (SCAR-COMNAp Fellow)

Home: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Host: Australian Antarctic Division

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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)

Jenson V. George

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

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

Ramón Hegedüs

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

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:
Characterizing the glaciological conditions at Halvfarryggen ice dome, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

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