- Sabine Borges Da Rocha (National Museum of Natural Sciences-CSIC) - Movement ecology of brown bears
- Giulia Bombieri (IMIB/MUSE), supervised with Paolo Pedrini (MUSE, Italy) - Patterns, causes and prevention of large carnivore attacks on humans
- Rui Lourenço (University of Evora), supervised with Erkki Korpimäki (University of Turku, Finland) - Owls as tools in ecology and conservation: their role as keystone intraguild predators, contamination sentinels and landscape fragmentation indicators