RESEARCH FUNDING

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8

as Principal
Investigator

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1.1M +

Total funding
secured

14

Competitive
projects

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4

International
projects

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2025-30

Current active
funding

Current funding

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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2025

OLIGOlife - Oligocene vertebrates in Northwestern Iberia: Fossil record, evolution and environmental dynamics

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2026-2030

€

105.000 €

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Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Agencia Estatal de Investigación.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Ramón y Cajal 2023

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of lagomorphs under past climate change

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2025-2030

€

251.800 € (including salary)

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Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Agencia Estatal de Investigación.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023

REvoBBIT - Unravelling evolutionary responses of lagomorphs to climate perturbations: geohistorical data integratin for present-day biodiversity conservation

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2025-2026

€

156.778,56 € (including salary)

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European Commission

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Previous projects with independent leadership

2023-27

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115.000€

La vida en el Oligoceno de la Península Ibérica: estudio taxonómico de las plantas y vertebrados de las cuencas sedimentarias gallegas y reconstrucción de sus ecosistemas - OLIGOlife (ED431F 2023-36). Team: 7 participants. Agency: Xunta de Galicia. Role: Co-IP.

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2023

Body mass evolutionary dynamics in the Oligocene-Miocene lagomorphs from Eurasia (AF-TAF-TA4-09. ED431F 2023-36). Agency: European Commission. Role: IP.

1.273,94€

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2022-24

103.000€

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of lagomorphs in front of climate changes: a paleobiological approach for the conservation of extant taxa (ED481D-2022-013). Agency: Xunta de Galicia. Role: IP.

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2022

6.000€

Did fossil pikas from insular environments move slowly? Assessment of postcranial elements of extinct ochotonids using geometric morphometrics (HU-TAF-1206). Agency: European Commission. Role: IP.

2019

800€

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Fossils, a key to conservation (2018-2019 187). Agency: Agrupamento Europeu da Cooperação Territorial Galiza-Norte de Portugal (GNP, AECT). Role: IP.

9.000€

Body mass estimation of soricids and talpids: the particular case of giant insular ones (HU-TAF-2655). Agency: European Commission. Role: IP.

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2013

Grants & Fellowships

Research fellowships

  • 2018-2022: Postdoctoral Fellowship: Axudas de apoio á etapa de formación posdoutoral 2018 - Modalidade A
    126.000€ (ED481B 2018/046)
    Xunta de Galicia

  • 2012-2016: Predoctoral Fellowship: Formation of University Professors FPU 2010
    71.220€ (AP2010-2393)
    Ministerio de Educación, Política Social y Deporte

  • 2012-Renounce: Predoctoral Fellowship: Formation of Young Researchers FI 2011
    76.665,60€ (2012 FI_B 00193)
    Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca

Travel grants and others

  • 2014: Complementary grants for beneficiaries of FPU grants: short stays and temporal transfer
    3.060€ (EST13/00560)
    Ministerio de Educación, Política Social y Deporte

  • 2009: Collaboration grants with University Departments
    2.000€
    Ministerio de Educación

Address

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Universidade da Coruña
15008 A Coruña

Contact

blanca.moncunill@udc.es

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