Awards and Grants

Awards 

2022   APEC ASPIRE finalist prize (Australian Academy of Science) for ‘Innovation to achieve economic, environmental, and social goals’

2017                  Spatial Excellence Postgraduate Student Award (Queensland Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute)

2016                  Society of Conservation Biology Oceania Best Student Paper Award. 

2015                  Best Poster Award (Second place). 8th Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference. Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2012                  University Medal (top 1% across all Faculties) from the University of Queensland.

2011                  Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) prize for the best performing student graduating from the Bachelor of Environmental Management. 

2011                  Queensland Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute GIS prize for the graduating student who achieved the highest proficiency in GIS (at The University of Queensland).  

2011                  Most outstanding student speed talk in the session. Ecology Society of Australia’s 2011 Annual Conference. Hobart, Tasmania.

2007 – 2011      8 times recipient of the Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement (Undergraduate studies). 

Grants and Scholarships

2022   Wildfire Futures Hallmark Research Initiative 2022 Seed Funding Program Grant

2022   Melbourne Centre for Data Science 2022 Seed Funding Program Grant

2021   Melbourne Climate Futures Climate Research Accelerator Grant

2021   University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant 

2021   Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

2020                  Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 

2019                  University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant 

2019                  University of Melbourne SEED grant (PI) 

2019                  University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant  

2016                  A Community on Ecosystem Services 2016 Graduate Student Fellowship. (Travel grant)

2014                  Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions Early Career Researcher Visiting Fellowship.

2014                  Wentworth Group Science Program Scholarship.

2013 – 2016      University of Queensland / CSIRO Integrated Natural Resource Management Scholarship.

2013 – 2016      University of Queensland Advantage Top-Up Scholarship.

2013 – 2016      Australian Postgraduate Award: Scholarship support for PhD candidature.

2011                  Honours research support grant from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. 

2010                  University of Queensland Advantage Grant

2010                  A Community on Ecosystem Services 2010 Student Volunteer Award.

2009                  University of Queensland Summer Research Scholarship.

2007 – 2010      Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (support for undergraduate studies).