Honors and Awards

2023

Reinhold-von-Sengbusch Best Poster Award, Molecular Biology of Plants Conference (Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Section of the DBG), February 6-9, 2023, Hennef, Germany

2022

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Best Poster Award, 24th EMBL PhD Symposium (The Spectra of Life: Dimensional Breadth in Biological Research), December 07-09, 2022, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Botanik Tagung Best Poster Award, Botanik Tagung 2022, Aug. 28 – Sept. 1, 2022, University of Bonn, Germany

New Phytologist Best Poster Award, New Phytologist’s Next Generation Scientist 2022, July 19-22, 2022, University of Tartu, Estonia

2019-2020

IMPRS-PMPG PhD Candidate, MPI-MP and IGZ Leibniz, Germany

Shortlisted PhD Applicant and Selected Interviewee, International Max Planck Research School “Primary Metabolism and Plant Growth” (IMPRS-PMPG), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP), Potsdam-Golm, Germany [Accepted PhD Offer]

2014

Selected Interviewee, 3rd Asian Chemical Biology Initiatives (ACBI) Students Interview Session, Manila Hotel, Philippines, chosen as one of the top 46 all over the Philippines to be invited

2013

Cum laude (With Distinction), BS Biology Major in Cell and Molecular Biology, UPLB

Recipient of the University President’s Medal of Merit for Academic Excellence, UPLB

Recipient of the Medal of Merit for Academic Excellence in Science from the College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB

Recipient of the Medal of Merit for Academic Excellence in Biology from the Institute of Biological Sciences, UPLB

Consistent University Scholar and College Scholar, UPLB