Antoine Simon, currently a BAEF fellow with us has been awarded a highly competitive two year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Union, for his project entitled “FRAME – Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections”.

Antoine will move this summer to the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo to work with Prof. Einar Timdal on genomic approaches applied to historical herbarium specimens.

His project aims at generating informative genetic data from ancient lichen collections, providing a cost-effective and labor-saving strategy to integrate relevant museum collections in biodiversity research.

Congrats to Antoine.