Matteo Sebastianelli

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Education                                                                                                                            

Ph.D. in Biodiversity and Ecology, 2019 – Present

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Kirschel

 

MRes in Tropical Forest Ecology, 2017-2018

Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Tobias

 

BSc (Hons) in Natural Sciences, 2013-2016

La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Supervisor: Dr. Donatella Magri

 

Grants and Awards                                                                                                                      

African Bioacoustics Community Conference, 2022

Best oral presentation.

 

Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, 2022

Horizon 2020, Excellence Hubs Programme “Restart 2016 – 2020”: Continent-wide genomics of hybridization and speciation (€ 200.000). Co-writer of the proposal.

 

Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, 2022

Horizon 2020, Excellence Hubs Programme “Restart 2016 – 2020”: Continent-wide genomics of hybridization and speciation (€ 200.000). Co-writer of the proposal.

 

Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, 2022

Horizon 2020, Excellence Hubs Programme “Restart 2016 – 2020”: Leveraging ancestry to investigate the genomics of song and colour in birds (€ 200.000). Co-writer of the proposal.

 

AOS small research grants, 2021

American Ornithological Society: Does hybridization affect song stability in birds that develop songs innately? ($ 1000). Main beneficiary.

 

African Bioacoustics Community, 2020

ABC sponsorship to attend the 2nd African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2020. Main beneficiary.

 

“Evagoras” scholarship, 2020 – 2023

University of Cyprus departmental scholarship: awarded on the basis of academic achievements (€ 8000/year). Main beneficiary.

 

A.G. Leventis Scholarship, 2020

The A. G. Leventis Foundation: The role of phenotypic traits in mediating species recognition in Pogoniulus tinkerbirds at contact zones (€ 3000). Main beneficiary.

 

Organization for Tropical Studies, 2020

Scholarship to attend the Bioacoustic Analysis in R workshop lead by Marcelo Araya-Salas ($ 400). Main beneficiary.

 

A.G. Leventis Scholarship, 2019

The A. G. Leventis Foundation: Assessing behavioural interactions of Mexican ant-thrush over time in a Mexican lowland forest (€ 3000). Main beneficiary.

 

Franzen Fellowship Program, 2018.

Amazon Conservation Association: Temporal changes in two populations of Amazonian antbirds ($ 3000). Main beneficiary.

 

Attended Conferences                                                                                                                

Oral presentations:

  • Gordon Research Seminar 2023 – Poster presentation 
  • 3rd African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2022 – Oral presentation
  • International Society of Behavioural Ecology (ISBE) conference 2022 – Oral presentation
  • 2nd African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2020 – Oral presentation

 

Languages                                                                                                                                      

Italian: mother tongue. English: fluent in oral, reading and writing. Spanish: fluent in oral, reading and writing.