Application Deadline: April 15, 2026
Heiligenberg Student Travel Awards are awarded on International Congress of Neuroethology years to qualified students who wish to present work in the field of neuroethology at national and international scientific meetings. The award is given in honor of Walter Heiligenberg, who was a distinguished neuroethologist, and a pioneer in the field. Heiligenberg made seminal contributions to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the jamming avoidance response of weakly electric fish.
Application Guidelines and Eligibility
The applicant must be an ISN member, a registered graduate student at a university and must plan on presenting their work at the conference. Priorities will be given to applicants who have demonstrated academic excellence and research potential as evidenced by the abstract of the work to be presented and the recommendation letters. Applicants with demonstrated financial need also will be considered for these awards. Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously received this award.
To apply, fill out the application form below and obtain one letter of recommendation from an academic advisor or mentor. The application form and letters should then be submitted to the ISN Business Office at isn@am.kwglobal.com (as a single PDF file).
2024 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Abigail Shaughnessy
QBI, University of Queensland
Aditi Mishra
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
Aditya Krishna
Johns Hopkins University
Alexandra Gurgis
Case Western Reserve University
Bianca Jaske
University of Würzburg
Giovani Cabrera
Macquarie University
Juan Vásquez
UdelaR – Clemete Estable Institute
Madeleine Snyder
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Martin Jarzyna
Washington University in St. Louis
Neha Rajput
Wayne State University
Ruth Gutjahr
University of Graz
Shouvik Mandal
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,
Soshi Yoshida
Doshisha University
Sree Subha Ramaswamy
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
Stephanie Heyworth
University of Queensland
2023 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Ronja Bigge
University of Konstanz
Varun Sharma
Georgia Institute of Technology
Catherine Macri
Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
Jessica Zung
Princeton University
Timothy Schwanitz
Princeton University
2022 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Billie Goolsby
Stanford University, USA
Stefan Mucha
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Amit Rana
Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel
Mariana Marquez Machorro
McGill University, Canada
Guillermo Valino
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Agnish Prusty
NCBS Bangalore, India
Jessica Briggs
University of New Hampshire, USA
Giacomo Costalunga
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany
Alena Lemazina
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany
2021 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Saumya Gupta
University of Washington, USA
Valerio Tettamanti
University of Queensland, Australia
2020 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Payel Chatterjee
NCBS, Bangalore India
Megan Freiler
Indiana University, USA
Lily Fogg
University of Queensland, Australia
Lukas Anneser
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Clarice Diebold
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Maitri Manjunath
NCBS, Bangalore India
2019 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Shubham Rathore
University of Cincinnati, USA
Lukas Weiss
University of Giessen, Germany
2018 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award winners
Andrea Adden
Lund University, Sweden
David Bertsch
Case Western, USA
Alexis Buatois
Universite Paul Sabatier, France
John Currea
Florida International, USA
Tarnir Eliav
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Rachel Feord
University of Cambridge, UK
Susie Hewlett
Macquarie University, Australia
Scarlett Howard
RMIT University, France
Tom Iwanicki
University of Hawaii, USA
Te Jones
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jinglin Li
Bielefield University, Germany
Marisa McDonald
University of Hawaii, USA
Morgan Newhoff
University of Minnesota, USA
Sarah Pannhausen
Bonn University, Germany
Rickesh Patel
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ute Pegel
University of Marburg, Germany
Atticus Pinzon
Lund University, Sweden
Maimon Rose
UC-Berkeley, USA
Natacha Rossi
Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Sergio Rossoni
University of Cambridge, UK
Taylor Rupp
Michigan State University, USA
Tobias Schmid
UC-Berkeley, USA
Jack Supple
University of Cambridge, UK
Amaro Tuninetti
Brown University, USA
Patric Vaelli
Michigan State University, USA
Elud Vinepinsky
Ben Gurion, Israel
Alexandra Yarger
Case Western, USA
2015 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award Winners
Anthony Auletta
Olga Dyakova
Lena Veit
2014 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award Winners
Charlotte Barkan, Olivier Bertrand, Brad Dickerson, Jorg Henninger, Ninad Kothari, Nikos Lessios, Cait Newport, Peter Olsson, Chloe Raderschall, Desmond Ramirez, Patric Vaelli, Byron Van Nest, Ryan York
2013 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award Winners
Bryce Chung, Charuni Gunaratne, Eva Fischer, Jessica Hanson, Kathryn Feller, Jeffery Brown, Rayna Harris, Katrina Schrode, and Paula Pouso
2012 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award Winners
Ysabel Giraldo, Chan Lin, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Annette Stowasser, Marie Suver, and Peter Weir
2011 Heiligenberg Student Travel Award Winners
Eva Fischer, Julieta Molinas, Lauren O'Connell, Sara Mae Stieb, Lucia Zubizarreta