2023 - 2027 | Sinergia Research Grant | Swiss National Science Foundation | with H. Vogel as Lead PI | Deep biosphere-geosphere interactions at the top of the world (DIGESTED): An interdisciplinary approach to interpret a Myr climate record from Lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau)
2022 – 2028 | Scientific Drilling Grant | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | The Weihe Basin Drilling Project, China (Phase 1): Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamics | Lead PI: Zhisheng An (CAS, China), Co-PI’s: Peter Molnar (U. Colorado, USA), Peizhen Chang (Sun YAT-SEN U., China), John Dodson (U. Wollongong, AUS), Carmala Garzione (U. Arizona, USA), Mark Lever (U. Texas, USA), Youbin Sun (CAS, China), Youhong Sun (U. Geosciences, China)
2020 - 2026 | Scientific Drilling Grant | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet (NamCore): A one million year sedimentary record from the third pole | Lead PI: T. Haberzettl (U. Greifswald, Germany), Co-PI’s: J. Wang (CAS, China), L. Zhu (CAS, China), G. Daut (U. Jena, Germany), Volkhard Spiess (U. Bremen, Germany), D. Ariztegui (U. Geneva, Switzerland), N. Barbolini (U. Stockholm, Sweden), L. Clarke (U. Manchester, UK), A. Henderson (U. Newcastle, UK), J. Woerd (U. Strasbourg, France), N. Waldmann (U. Haifa, Israel)
2019 – 2023 | Infrastructure Grant | Swiss National Science Foundation | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | Swiss membership in the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | Lead PI: F. Anselmetti (U. Bern), Co-applicants: O. Müntener (U. Lausanne), A. Foubert (U. Fribourg), D. Ariztegui, R. Kipfer (EAWAG)
2014 – 2017 | Research Grant | Swiss National Science Foundation | with H. Vogel as Lead PI | Climate history of the Indo-Pacific region and subsurface biosphere of Lake Towuti: The Swiss contribution to the ICDP Towuti Drilling Project (research part) | Co-applicants: D. Ariztegui & M. Chiaradia (U. Geneva), F. Anselmetti (U. Bern)
2014 – 2017 | Infrastructure Grant | Swiss National Science Foundation | with H. Vogel as Lead PI | Climate history of the Indo-Pacific region and subsurface biosphere of Lake Towuti: The Swiss contribution to the ICDP Towuti Drilling Project (drilling part) | Co-applicants: D. Ariztegui & M. Chiaradia (U. Geneva), F. Anselmetti (U. Bern)
2015 | Workshop Grant | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | The Lake Chad deep Drilling Project (CHADRILL)- Unraveling 10 million years of environmental and climate changes in Africa: Implications for human migration and deep life | Co-PI’s: F. Sylvestre (CEREGE, France), M. Schuster (U. Strasbourg, France), M. Abdheramane (U. N’Djamena, Chad), N. Waldmann (U. Haifa, Israel), R. Flecker (U. Southhampton, UK), D. Ariztegui (U. Geneva, Switzerland)
2013 – 2019 | Scientific Drilling Grant | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | The Towuti Drilling Project (TDP): Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake | Lead PI: J.M. Russell (U. Brown, USA), Co-PI’s: S. Bijaksana (ITB, Indonesia), T. Rintelen (Museum f. Naturk. Berlin, Germany), M. Melles (U. Köln, Germany), G.D. Hafner (U. Windsor, Canada), J. Stevenson (ANU, Australia), I. Watkinson (Royal Holloway, UK), R. Marwoto (LIPI, Indonesia), D. Fowle (U. Kansas, USA), S. Crowe (UBC, Canada), J. King (U. Rhode Island, USA), N. Wattrus (LLO, USA)
2011 | Workshop Grant | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) | with H. Vogel as Co-PI | Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake: The Lake Towuti Drilling Project | Co-PI’s: J.M. Russell (U. Brown, USA), S. Bijaksana (ITB, Indonesia), S.Y. Cahyarini (LIPI, Indonesia), D. Fowle (U. Kansas, USA), G.D. Hafner (U. Windsor, Canada), Y. Huang (U. Brown, USA), S. Idriyanti (LIPI, Indonesia), J. King (U. Rhode Island, USA), D. Oppo (WHOI, USA), N. Wattrus (LLO, USA)