- Outstanding contribution to GIS Land and Property Services Award (Northern Ireland Government Agency) for best 2010 Master of Science Dissertation.
- Postgraduate grant awarded by the UNED (Spanish National University) for the PgD in Remote Sensing. 2007-2008
- Course grant awarded by the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) for the course Global change: beyond climate change. 2008
- Research fellowship for the project ID2004/01: “Participative ethnobiologic and ethnoecologic study of Beneixama, Alt Vinalopó, Alicante, Spain: Bases for an Integrated Environmental Project”, held by IDENTIA Institute. Duration: October 2004-March 2005.
- Research fellowship for the project “Studies related to the management and conservation of the environment, field research and development of environmental education programs in the Town Hall of Ibi” completed in the CIBIO Research Institute of Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Department, University of Alicante, Spain. Duration: 2003-2004.
- Assistant scholar in the Science and Natural Resources Department, University of Alicante, Spain, to elaborate the Digital Herbarium and the Fruits and Seeds Bank of the University. Duration: 2001-2002.