Dr. Mark Otieno

2025: DFG grant for a project on Ecology of African army ants under global change: a macroecological and community-level perspective

2025: DFG grant for a project on Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary constraints across elevational gradients in African bees

2025: Zoologische Gesellschaft für Arten-und Populationsschutz (ZGAP) grant for Securing the long-term survival of the critically endangered pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) in Kenya

2024: EU-HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01-10 grant for Strengthening rural livelihoods and resilience to climate change in Africa: innovative agroforestry integrating people, trees, crops, and livestock

2024: UKCEH - TBA equipment grant for deploying an Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) System grant for moths’ research in the Taita Hills

2024: Zoologische Gesellschaft für Arten-und Populationsschutz (ZGAP) grant for a project on Saving a critically endangered rock-climbing pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) in Kenya

2023: Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant to write a book on sustainable Agroecological Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa in the face of climate change

2023: British Ecological Society research grant for Assessing the ecological implications of invasive species on coffee pollination in the Taita Hills, Kenya

2023: DFG Research Grant for a project on functional complementarity between nocturnal and diurnal pollinators along a land-use gradient in Taita Hills biodiversity hotspots in Kenya

2023: DFG sub grant for a project on Mechanisms underlying local adaptation to high-elevation habitats in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

2023: Southern University East Africa project grant Cluster grant for a project on developing cost-effective pest management tools against new and emerging animal and plant pests and diseases in Kenya

2023: 1890 CEGFSD to build crop pest and disease management capacities among farmers, extension workers, and agronomists in the post-COVID-19 era in Embu County ($15,000).

2022: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grant to assess the local and landscape factors driving field beans (Vicia faba) pollination and pest regulation in Germany

2022: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research travel grant for networking and project idea development meetings in Germany

2022: American Orchid Society conservation fund to study the pollination biology of the African Leopard orchid in Kerio Valley in Kenya

2022: Centre of Excellence for Global Food Security and Defense, USA grant for a project on leveraging on lessons learned from COVID-19 among smallholder farmers to build resilience for future shocks in Embu County, Kenya

2022: Harper Adams University QR funding to study mutualists and antagonists of wild coffee in coastal Kenya and the Taita Hills

2022: Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi Letter of Commendation for exceptional entrepreneurship seminar organisation during the Italian Design Day

2022: JRS Biodiversity Foundation grant for capacity building to conduct baseline wildlife surveys of invertebrates in Alpine and Montane forests ecosystems in the highest mountains in East Africa ($148,377).

2022: Researcher of the Year awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Embu during the Staff Luncheon held on 21st December 2022 for exceptional research work.

2022: University of Würzburg sub-award for a project investigating mechanisms underlying local adaptation to high-elevation habitats in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

2019: British Ecological Society Ecologists in Africa Grant

2019: Georg Forster Experienced Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2019: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

2018: Israel - MASHAV Agro-ecological Approaches for Sustainable Intensive Agriculture