2010

National Science Foundation research grant  ‘Australia Down Under: Quantification of rates and amount of continental subduction during Neogene arc-continent collision on Timor’ (PI’s16621: Nadine McQuarrie, Princeton; Ron Harris, Bringham Young): Total grant: 499 k$

2007

ISES PhD project ‘Tectono-metamorphic evolution, timing and mechanism of Cenozoic exhumation of the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, central Turkey’ (with Reinoud Vissers): 220 k€ (304.5 k$)

2007

ISES Visiting Research Fellowship for Ayten Koç, PhD student from Ankara (with Reinoud Vissers & Nuretdin Kaymakcı): 55 k€ (76 k$)

2006

Shell-funded research project 'Geological evolution and reservoir potential of the western Donbas segment of the Paleozoic Dniepr-Donets Basin: 200 k$

2006

VENI-research grant "Exhumation with a twist: the evolving anatomy of a metamorphic core complex (Menderes region, western Turkey): 200 k€ (277 k$)

2005

E.J. Garwood Research Fund of the Geological Society of London for paleomagnetism in Mongolia: 1.3 k£ (2 k$)

2005

University of Leicester research grant for geochemical analysis of Mongolian lava fields: 1 k£ (1.6 k$)

1998

Molengraaff Foundation research grant. Funding for extracurricular fieldwork on Crete: 0.8 k€ (1.1 k$)

2011

Geology 2011 Exceptional Reviewer (Geological Society of America)