Jeannette Kneubühler, PhD student at the University of Bern and the Natural History Museum Bern, who will present the research based on her master thesis at the World Congress of Malacology 2019 in Monterey, USA
Mathilde Ruche, PhD student in Life Sciences at the University of Geneva & Conservatoire and Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (CJB), who will make a poster presentation at the International Association of Bryologists Bryology19 Symposium in Madrid, Spain
Student travel grant
Conditions:
being a MS or PhD candidate in a Swiss research institution
having a research project that includes systematics
submitting a talk or a poster to an international meeting
being a member of the SSS (10 CHF for student)
Please note that the grant might not cover all your expenses. We plan to support several students, and some years we’ll favour the attendance to a particular meeting. Projects of applicants who do not have support from their own institution will be favoured.
To apply, please send to swisssystematics@yahoo.com before 30 April 2019:
A description of the project, including an abstract of the presentation or poster, the budget requested and your motivations to attend the meeting (maximum 2 pages, in English)
A short curriculum vitae
A letter of support of your supervisor, with indications about the unavailability of internal funding for attending the meeting
