Pablo Medrano-Vizcaíno

Postdoctoral Fellow - Macroecology, trait-based modelling, Road Ecology, AI

Awards and grants


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1st place award for academic merit to the most outstanding alumni in: significant and high-quality academic and research production; and international recognition for their performance. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. December 2023.
I have been fortunate to receive recognition for my academic activities and have also received funding for my research. Total: $148,150

Grants

Research grant – Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (CEDIA). Project: Studying wildlife parasites and microbiome in two of the most biodiverse regions of the world:  The tropical Andes, and Chocó Darién in Ecuador.  $38,250.

Research grant – Universidad Central del Ecuador. Project: Detection of parasites and microbiome in roadkilled wildlife and potential risk for human health.  $25,000.

Travel grant - University of Reading.  £700
 
 Full PhD Scholarship - Winner of world competition for PhD studentship (one scholarship is awarded each year) – University of Reading International Research studentship.  £53,000

Research grant- Program for the Conservation of Biodiversity - Ecociencia. $2,500.

Grant for academic excellence in 2014 Universidad Central del Ecuador, Biological and Environmental Sciences. (Two academic periods) $1,200.

Research grant  Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador.  MSc in Conservation Biology. $8,000.

Grant for academic excellence in Universidad Central del Ecuador, Biological and Environmental Sciences. $600

Awards

1st place Award for academic merit to the most outstanding alumni in two areas: significant and high-quality academic and research production; and international and/or national recognition for their performance – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

Award as the best-spoken presentation in the III Cycle of Scientific research applied to biology. July 2016. Universidad Central del Ecuador.

Best-spoken presentation of the Road Ecology Symposium in the II Colombian Congress and III Latin American Congress of Mammalogy. December 2015. Francisco José de Caldas University – Colombia.  

First place in the IV National Fair of Science, Technology and Innovation and First Andean Technological Innovation Competition. Universidad Central del Ecuador grant.