2010: Volkswagen Stiftung, Initiative „Forschung in Museen“: two years project „Die Dynamik des Solnhofener Archipels“. Together with Dr. Martina Kölble-Ebert (Eichstätt).
2006: Synthesys Research Grant (FR-TAF 2079): Diverstiy and Evolution of Semionotid Fishes; Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.
2000 – 2002: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET): “The Triassic fishes of the Cuyo and Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basins (Northwestern Argentina): sistematics and biogeography”.
1999 – 2000: DAAD-Research Fellowship (A/99/00468): “Fossil fishes from Los Rastros Formation (Triassic; La Rioja province, Argentina)“; Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
1997 – 1999: CONICET-Research Fellowship (Category II): “Recent and fossil Percichthyidae (Osteichthyes, Perciformes) of Argentina“.
1995 – 1997: CIC-Research Fellow (Category II): “Cenozoic freshwater fishes of the Patagonic and Pampean areas: Paleobiogeography and Paleoclimathology”.
1993 – 1995: CIC-Research Fellow (Category I): “Cenozoic freshwater fishes of the Patagonic and Pampean areas: Paleobiogeography and Paleoclimathology”.