We are pleased to announce that Green Talent 2021 Leticia Benavalli is the winner of the 2022 McKenna-Travers Award for Compassionate Conservation. She was recognized for her outstanding work improving jaguar welfare in Cerrado, Brazil.

Bibek Shrestha and his team were among the top 10 winners in Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office Business Hub's Urban Innovation Program conducted with UNDP Nepal and Impact Hub Kathmandu with their project CUBES.

Curtis Rollins and Claire Doll were awarded a University of Western Australia (UWA) Research Collaboration Award to support data collection for their research stays. This award brings them together with early-career researchers, along with their supervisors and Green Talents hosts.

This year’s prestigious DAAD STIBET prize for outstanding commitment of international doctoral students is granted to George K. Parku, who is conducting his PhD at IKFT in the Group of Prof Dahmen.

Georgia Pierrou has been awarded the competitive D. W. Ambridge Prize for her doctoral work at McGill University. This prize is awarded to an outstanding McGill graduate pursuing a PhD in any discipline of science or engineering in 2021-2022.

Soheil​ Mohseni​ has designed an energy network for Stewart Island/Rakiura, as part of his PhD studies at Victoria University of Wellington, looking at off-grid networks.

Three 2019 Green Talents worked successfully on a journal article on Anthropocene Science together. Sheikh Adil Edrisi, Priyanka Sarkar and Jaewon Son published a meta-analysis on land degradation and land restoration. Learn more about their outcome here.

Hannah Harrison will join the Marine Affairs Program as an Assistant Professor in July. Hannh comes to Dalhousie after three years as the Science Director for the Coastal Routes project and postdoctoral scholar the University of Guelph and will be responsible for core elements of the MMM program.

Green Talent 2021 Joyjit Chatterjee, a data scientist at University of Hull, will visit the University of Bremen on a fully funded research grant. Dr Chatterjee has also been named in Forbes’ Under 30 Europe list. Read more here.