Student Prize and Travel Award Scheme

The Metabolomics Society Student Awards recognize outstanding academic achievement.

Students* can apply for one of (10) Student Travel Awards to support their attendance at the Metabolomics Society annual conference. If successful they are then eligible to compete for the Metabolomics Society Student Prize, awarded to the top-scoring student presentation.

*Eligibility, applicants must be:
  • Currently enrolled in full-time or part-time education, studying for either an undergraduate degree (BSc) or higher degree (MSc, PhD).
  • A current/paid member of the Metabolomics Society continuously for at least 3 months prior to the conference.
  • Submit an abstract for the conference in the “Oral or Poster” category.
  • Register for the conference and attend in person.
  • Not eligible for the Metabolomics Society Early Career Travel Awards
Student and Early-Career abstracts that are submitted for travel awards will be reviewed by the SOC. You can only receive one award, either from the Society or an affiliate/sponsor.

Metabolomics Society 2024 Student Award Winners

  • Milla Brandao Gois – University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
  • Isabella Burger – TU Wien, Austria
  • Roman Bushuiev – IOCB Prague, Czech Republic
  • Ju-Yu Chen – National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Philip Kwan Hung Leung – Imperial College London, UK
  • Ruchicka Oniel – Max Planck Institute, Germany
  • Kuniyoshi Shimizu – Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  • Manami Takeuchi – Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  • Rachel Williams – University of Oxford, UK ** Prize Winner
  • Yan Yan – Imperial College London, UK

Metabolomics Society 2023 Student Award Winners

  • Tomás Clive Barker Tejeda – CEMBIO, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Spain
  • Kinjal Bhatt – University of Liege, Belgium
  • Samuel Goldman – MIT, USA
  • Nikita Harvey – Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  • Diana Ilyaskina – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Elvire Landstra – German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany ** Prize Winner
  • Weifeng Lin – Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Kevin Mendez – Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Kateřina Šebelová – University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic
  • Christian Urzì – University of Bern, Switzerland

Metabolomics Society 2022 Student Award Winners

  • Niek De Jong – Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
  • Maxime Delmas – INRAE UMR 1331 ToxAlim, France
  • Maria Llambrich – URV, Spain
  • Tessa Peters – Radboudumc, Netherlands
  • Zach Rabow – UC Davis, USA
  • Elys Rodriguez – Fiehn Lab, USA ** Prize Winner
  • Matthew Smith – University Of Birmingham, UK
  • Kieran Tarazona Carrillo – University of Alberta, Canada
  • Yingxiao Yan – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Qishun Zhou – Medical University of Graz, Austria

Metabolomics Society 2019 Student Award Winners

  • Alexandra George – The University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Aoife McNamara – Institute of Food and Health, Ireland
  • Joan Miró Blanch – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
  • Abidemi Junaid – Leiden University, the Netherlands
  • Daqiang Pan – University of Freiburg, Germany
  • Toma Ramonaite – Imperial College London, UK
  • Edward Smith – University of Oxford, UK
  • Karin Terburgh – North-West University, South Africa
  • Tina Tran – George Washington University, USA ** Prize Winner

Metabolomics Society 2018 Student Award Winners

  • Jasmine Chong – McGill University, Canada
  • Emilio Cirri – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany ** Prize Winner
  • Yosuke Nakano – Osaka University, Japan
  • Hoonsik Nam – Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  • William Nash – University of Birmingham, UK
  • Edita Ritmejeryte – The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Courtney Schiffman – University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Xiaotao Shen – Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Patrick J. Trainor – University of Louisville, USA
  • Cheng Wang – The Ohio State University, USA

Metabolomics Society 2017 Student Award Winners

  • Rudi Grosman – University of Liverpool
  • Dipa Gurung – Imperial College London
  • Takoua Jendoubi – Imperial College London
  • Xiaona Li – Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Marcus Ludwig – Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
  • Pamela Pruski – Imperial College London
  • Emma Sherman – New Zealand Inst. for Plant & Food Research
  • Kyle Van de Bittner – University of Canterbury
  • Mohsen Zareian – University of Otago
  • Jonas Zierer – King’s College London

Metabolomics Society 2016 Student Award Winners

  • Xiaofei Yin – University College Dublin
  • Roberto Fusetto – The University of Melbourne
  • Blandine Madji Hounoum – Inserm U930 Equipe 2
  • Carlos Sanchez Arcos – Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology
  • Helena Gibbons – University College Dublin
  • Annalaura Mastrangelo – Univesidad San Pablo CEU
  • Rabiya Zia – Imperial College London
  • Robin Wördenweber – Bielefeld University
  • Christian Ristok – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
  • Amy McMillan – Western University

Metabolomics Society 2015 Student Award Winners

  • Jonas Zierer – King’s College London
  • Hyuknam Kwon – Seoul National University
  • Zhixiang Yan
  • Sara Samino – University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia
  • Tokuwa Kanno – King’s College London
  • Yong Jin – An Seoul National University
  • Leslie R. Euceda – The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Nazanin Zounemat Kermani – Imperial College London
  • Martin Jones – University of Birmingham
  • Sarah Cherkaoui – Universite de Montreal

Metabolomics Society 2014 Student Award Winners

  • Zanariah Hashim – Osaka University
  • Chaevien Clendinen – University of Florida
  • Shao Thing Teoh – Osaka University
  • Surachat Tangpranomkorn – Chulalongkorn University
  • Gregory Stupp – University of Florida
  • Adriana Macedo – McMaster University
  • Hindrike Bammann – CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology
  • Huai-Hsuan Chiu – National Taiwan University
  • Cheng-Cheng Lin – Chang Gung University
  • Christoph Ruttkies – Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Halle)

Metabolomics Society 2013 Student Award Winners

  • Shayne Mason – North-West University, South Africa
  • Marie Palmnäs – University of Alberta, Canada
  • David B. Liesenfeld – German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  • Lea Maitre – Imperial College London, UK
  • Anne-Laure Hepp – University of Sheffield, UK
  • Helena Gibbons – University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Kumsun Cho – Seoul National University College of Medicine and Hospital, Republic of Korea
  • Sven Heiling – Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
  • Martin R. Jones – University of Birmingham, UK
  • Kathleen Vermeersch – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Metabolomics Society 2012 Student Award Winners

  • Stephan Beisken (European Bioinformatics Institute) – Mass Spectrometry in KNIME: Custom Nodes for Data Pre-Processing
  • Helen Martin (Loughborough University) – The Application of Hyphenated Thermal Desorption Electrospray Ionisation-Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry to the Targeted Analysis of Volatile Biomarkers from Human Skin and Breath
  • Silvia Oliveira Diaz (University of Aveiro) – Maternal urine metabolic profiling: a means to follow the metabolic adaptations throughout pregnancy and predict prenatal disorders
  • Julio Peironcely (TNO Research Group) – Metabolomics Using an Automated Metabolite Identification Pipeline
  • Brian Lankadurai (University of Toronto) – 1H NMR-based metabolomic analysis of sub-lethal perfluoroalkyl acid exposure to the earthworm Eisenia fetida
  • Farhana Pinu (University of Auckland) – Sauvignon blanc metabolomics: Influence of juice manipulations on wine aroma compounds
  • Yajing Chu (Cambridge University) – A Metabolomic study of a rat model of Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis to investigate the induction of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Arjun Sengupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) – 1H NMR Metabonomics to Monitor Recovery Profile and Diagnose Malaria: Implications for Plasmodium vivax Infection