For 2024, the Fellowship has been awarded to Mr Nathan Hayes (Biosecurity, Government of Jersey) who will work on a commodity risk assessment of a high-risk wood product and detection, management and eradication strategies for Anoplophora glabripennis. He will be hosted by USDA-APHIS and the Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Duration 4 months.

For 2024, the Fellowship has been awarded to Mr Félix Morán Villamizar (IVIA, Valencia, Spain) who will work on the evaluation and application of High-Throughput Sequencing techniques in diagnostics: a comparative study of Oxford Nanopore and Illumina technologies. He will be hosted by the Plant Health Laboratory, ANSES, Angers, France. Duration 4 months.

For 2023, the Fellowship has been awarded to Ms Gular Bayramova (Azerbaijan Food Safety Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan) who will work on seed transmission of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in pepper and tomato seeds. She will be hosted by the Leibniz İnstitute DSMZ, Braunschweig, DE. Duration 6 months.

For 2023, the Fellowship has been awarded to Ms Laura Celma (State Plant Protection Service, Latvia) who will work on molecular methods to detect and diagnose plant pathogens. She will be hosted by ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), BE. Duration 4 months.

For 2021, the Fellowship has been awarded to Ms Ekaterina Sinitsyna (VNIIKR, Russia) to work under the supervision of Prof. Gianni Gilioli and Dr Giorgio Sperandio (Università degli Studi di Brescia, IT) on the assessment and control of Halyomorpha halys. Duration 6 months. 

For 2020, the Fellowship has been awarded to Ms Suzie Pearce (DEFRA, United Kingdom) to conduct a commodity risk assessment on blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) at CFIA (Canada).  Duration 6 months.