Awards and Honors

Runner-up award Fybrix Innovation Competition 2023. Project PhosPhage. Mercator Launch industry idea competition. https://www.mercatorlaunch.nl/
Award in Outreach and Communication with the Non-Academic Community. Postdocs Awards 2022 the University of Minnesota.
Honorable mention for Impactful research. Postdocs Awards 2022 the University of Minnesota.
Honorable mention for Academic service. Postdocs Awards 2022 the University of Minnesota.
Top 100 papers in Earth Science Collection https://www.nature.com/collections/agegihhehi DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-38740-2.
Ph.D. Honor Award 2017 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Links
Award with the Second accessit of the prize of the meeting "Microbiology and Society: Challenges + IV National Meeting of Teaching and Dissemination of Microbiology". Spanish Society of Microbiology. 19-20 of July 2018. Madrid, Spain.
Award for the best presentation in the area of “combustibles/fuels”. In the 40º Annual meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society. 2014. Valencia, Spain.

President Postdoctoral fellowship (PPFP), UMN. Sept 2022 to Sept 2024. Award: $120,000 for two years’ salary and $40,000 for research (divided into two years).
Summer post-doctoral fellowship, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (CCESR). June-August 2022. Award: $2,548.
Summer post-doctoral fellowship, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (CCESR). June-August 2021. Award: $2,548.
Post-doctoral fellowship, from the Alfonso Martín Escudero Foundation. January 2019-January 2021. http://www.fundame.org/usuarios/?ID=396. Award: 80,000 €.
Post-doctoral fellowship, from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FPI program), July 2017- July 2018. Grant number: BES-2014-067580. Award: 25,000 €.
Graduate fellowship, from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FPI program), 2015-2017. Grant number: BES-2014-067580. Award: 63,300€
Graduate fellowship, Albiotox group of Universidad Complutense de Madrid in a project funded by Iberdrola Engineering and Construction S.A.U., July 2013- December 2013. Award: 6,840€

CBS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) micro-grant, School of Biology, UMN. April 2022. Award: $5,000. https://cbs.umn.edu/about/equity-diversity/2022-micro-grant
Development Grant, Postdoctoral Association, UMN, April 2022. Award: $500.
MNDrive Environment Seed Grant Program, MNDrive, UMN. January 2021-December 2023. Award: $141,000 (plus the NRRI Travel Grant $2,759). https://mndrive.umn.edu/environment/cyanotoxin-bioremediation-microbes
Leadership Development Grant, Office of Postdoctoral Development, UMN. June 2021. Award: $500.

Attendance grant, FEMS Summer School for Postdocs, 3-13 September 2022. https://fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/network-and-activities/congress/fems-summer-school-for-postdocs/
Travel Grant, Biotechnology Institute, UMN, May 2022. Award: $500.
NRRI/MNDrive travel grant award, MNDrive, UMN. 2022. Award: $2,759.
Grant for conference attendance, FEMS-ASM online 2021 attendance grant. Award: $250.
Grant for conference attendance, FEMS 2019 attendance grant ID FEMS-GO-2019-066. Award: GBP 540.
Grant for graduate mobility, from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. To perform a short-term stay at the University of Minnesota, February 2016-August 2016. Grant number: EEBB-I-16-10757. Award: 6,236 €.