The call for the GBIF Graduate Researchers Award 2024 is now open

The GBIF Secretariat has just opened the call to apply for the GBIF Award for Graduate Researchers 2024, aimed at graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies are based on data mediated by GBIF. The purpose of these awards is to encourage and recognize innovative research and discoveries in the field of biodiversity informatics. The 2024 program will award two prizes of 5,000 euros to recognize the work of two researchers who are beginning their careers—preferably, a master’s student and a doctoral student—and who meet the following conditions:

• Develop your studies in an institution located in a GBIF participating country or be citizens of a GBIF participating country and
• Provide a letter of support verifying your affiliation with a university graduate program

Candidates must be formally nominated by heads of delegation or administrators of the nodes belonging to countries participating in GBIF .

Candidacies are channeled through GBIF national nodes. In the case of Spain, they can be sent until June 3, 2024 to comunicacion@gbif.es.

Click here to see more information about the GBIF Graduate Researchers Award 2024 on GBIF.org.

In the 2022 call, the winners of the GBIF Young Researchers Award, now called the GBIF Award for Graduate Researchers, were the Spanish Armand Rausell Moreno, who had just completed his Master’s studies in biodiversity in areas tropical plants and their conservation at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (CSIC-UIMP), and Christopher Schiller, from the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 2021, one of the winners was also a Spanish researcher, Julen Torrens Dance of the University of Navarra, together with Michael Belitz from the University of Florida and the Florida Museum of Natural History (United States).

The first Spanish woman to win this award was Nora Escribano, from the University of Navarra, in 2017.

Furthermore, in the 2023 call, one of the winners was the Galician Andrés Vicente Liz, student at the University of Porto, who presented his candidacy through the GBIF node in Portugal.

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