Research funding, grants and awards

Research funding (as Principal Investigator)

  • 01/09/2021 – 30/04/2024 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (CLIMGROWTH, H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, Grant Agreement No. 101025938, €209,598.24). Outgoing phase: University of Ottawa, Canada (18 months); return phase: Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland (12 months). Official project page.

  • 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2020 — PhD fellowship, University of Turku Graduate School (4-year salaried position), Finland.

Awards and prizes

  • 2017 — Prize “Naturalist of the Year” given by the Piedmont Naturalist Society for the paper Masoero et al. (2016), The effect of treeline proximity on predation pressure: an experiment with artificial nests along elevational gradients in the European Alps, Bird Study 63: 395–405.

  • 2017 — Prize “Medaglia d’Argento” (Silver Medal) for the best master’s thesis in Environmental Biology at the University of Torino, Italy (academic year 2014/15). Thesis: “How advancing treelines will affect Alpine bird distributions: An experiment using artificial nests” (defended 17/07/2015).

Travel grants

  • 2019 — Travel grant from the Turun Yliopistosäätiö (University of Turku Foundation), for the conference “Nordic Society Oikos – Ecology in the Anthropocene” in Reykjavík, Iceland (800 €).
  • 2019 — Travel grant from the British Ornithological Union, for the European Ornithologists’ Union conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (300 £ — ≈ 338.61 €).
  • 2018 — Travel grant from the University of Turku Graduate School, for the 27th International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver, Canada (1380 €).
  • 2018 — Travel grant (No. TT18/1213) from the British Ecological Society, for the 27th International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver, Canada (500 £ — ≈ 550.20 €).