Awards
Awards, Prizes and Grants
One of IRGO’s objectives is to motivate and support early career scientists in ostracodology and to honour distinguished ostracodologists. Whilst the latter has been achieved for several years through the awarding of the ‘Order of the Amphidont hinge’, the former is achieved through various prizes and grants. SF*IRGO and TMS provide financial support for this task.
Quick links:
- Order of the Amphidont Hinge
- Sylvester-Bradley Award for the best oral presentation of an early career ostracodologist at International Symposia on Ostracoda (TMS funded)
- IRGO/SF*IRGO Award for the best poster of an early career ostracodologist at International Symposia on Ostracoda
- SF*IRGO Awards (talk and poster) for early career ostracodologists at European Ostracodologists’ Meetings
- SF*IRGO Award for best poster of all (issued only twice, not continued)
- SF*IRGO Travel Grants for conferences
- Kempf Mobility Grant for early career ostracodologists (for collection visits or collaborations with experienced colleagues)
1. Order of the Amphidont Hinge
Some ostracod workers take an important part in the life of the community, devoting much of their time to tasks that are not awarded by high impact publications or scientific evaluation. They put their skills to serve the community, and their generosity has helped our community to grow and to bond strongly. To honor the life achievements of John Neale (1906-2006) and Henri Oertli (1927-2013), Roger Kaesler at ISO 12 in 1994 established the “Order of the Amphidont Hinge”, but the award had not been continued until the IRGO board in 2017 decided to revive it.
ISO20, Beijing 2026
Helga Uffenorde (Gemany)
Claude Meisch (Luxembourg)
ISO19, Lyon 2022
David John Siveter (UK)
Dan Danielopol (Austria)
ISO18, Santa Barbara 2017
Rosalie Maddocks (USA)
Elly Brouwers (USA)
Eugen Kempf (Germany, posthumous)
ISO12, Prague 1994
John Neale (UK)
Henri J. Oertli (Switzerland)
2. Sylvester-Bradley Award
for the best oral presentation of early career ostracodologists at International Symposia on Ostracoda
In 2001, Professor David Siveter announced that the editorial team of the former ‘Stereo-Atlas of Ostracod Shells’ had established a prize for young people to give presentations at International Symposia on Ostracoda. The prize is named after the late Peter Sylvester-Bradley, renowned geologist and ostracodologist, and one of the founders of The Stereo Atlas. Today, The Micropaleontological Society is funding the prize.
ISO20, Beijing, 2026
Eris Yumeng Wei (The University of Hong Kong)
ISO19, Lyon, 2022
Mauricio Bonilla-Flores (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
ISO18, Santa Barbara 2017
Anna B. Jöst (The University of Hong Kong)
ISO17, Rome, 2013
Yuanyuan Hong (The University of Hong Kong)
ISO16, Brasilia, 2009
Laurent Decrouy (University of Lausanne)
ISO15, Berlin, 2005
Simone Brandao (Hamburg University)
Shinnosuke Yamada (Shizuoka University)
ISO14, Shizuoka, 2001
Gengo Tanaka (Shizuoka University)
3. IRGO/SF*IRGO Award
for the best poster of early career ostracodologists at International Symposia on Ostracoda
ISO20, Beijing, 2026
Suvin Seok (Hanyang University)
ISO19, Lyon, 2022
Kai Pfennings (Marine Research Department, Senckenberg am Meer)
ISO18, Santa Barbara 2017
Yuki Fujihara (Shimane University)
ISO17, Rome 2013
Josep Antoni Aguilar-Alberola (University of Valencia)
ISO16, Brasilia 2009
Anna Baczewska (Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences) shared with
Josep A. Aguilar-Alberola (University of Valencia)
ISO15, Berlin, 2005
Shimpei Hiruta (Hokkaido University)
4. SF*IRGO Awards
for early career ostracodologists at European Ostracodologists’ Meetings
EOM10 (2024) Catania, Italy
Elena Bellavere (University of Parma) best oral presentation
Michalina Kijowska (University of Gdansk) best poster
EOM9 (2019) Gdańsk, Poland
Mauro Alivernini (University Jena) best oral presentation
Olga (Gildeeva) Schmitz (University Jena) best poster
5. SF*IRGO Award
for best poster of all (issued only twice, not continued)
ISO18
Toshiaki Irizuki (Shimane University)
ISO17
Jessica Fischer (LMU-Munich) shared with
Ilaria Mazzini (University of Roma 3)
6. Travel Grants
In 2018, SF*IRGO began awarding travel grants to early-career researchers on the occasion of important conferences to enable them to present their research on ostracods to a wide audience.
2026
ISO20 Beijing, China
Mauricio Bonilla Flores (Technical University Braunschweig)
Qianwei Wang (University of Jena)
Zbigniew Ziarek, (AGH University of Krakow)
Ganesh Muduli (Pondicherry University)
2024
EOM10 Catania, Italy
Katja Muzek (Croatian Geological Survey)
Romain Cycyk (Lille University)
AOM5 Busan (Republic of Korea)
Belgutei Bold (Mongolian University of Science and Technology & Institute of Paleontology)
Yichi Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)
2022
ISO19 Lyon, France
Valentini Navrozidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
MarÍa Bisquert-Ribes (University of València)
Maria Tsoni (University of Patras)
2018
IPC5 Paris, France
Lea Rausch (University of Bucharest)
Simona Rinkevičiūtė (Vilnius University)
Yana Shurupova (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
7. Kempf Mobility Grant
In 2025, SF*IRGO established this new grant in honour of its co-founder, Eugen K. Kempf (1932-2017). The aim of the grant is to support young ostracodologists in travelling to visit experienced colleagues for further training or to access ostracod collections for taxonomic work.
Kempf Mobility Grant 2025
Qianwei Wang (University Jena)
Svenja Scholz (University Jena)
Germán Díaz (University of Buenos Aires)
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