Cendi Dana | Achievements

Grants and Scholarships

$38.5k+

Research

grants

$10.5k+

Travel

grants

$256k+

Postgraduate scholarship

2025

Conference travel grants from Mineral Deposit Studies Group (MDSG; £100) and Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA; £120) to attend MDSG Meeting 2026 in Cardiff, Wales.
Edinburgh Geological Society (EGS) research grant (£1000) for mineralogical analysis of the Kerry Road VMS deposit.
European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) student sponsorship (€1000) for research visit (LA-ICP-MS) to ETH Zurich.
International Association of GeoChemistry (IAGC) student research grant ($2300) – sponsored by Elsevier – for Cu isotope analysis in metamorphosed VMS deposits.
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) conference travel grant ($2500) to attend SEG 2025 in Brisbane, Australia.

2024

Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) mobility grant (€1000) for U-Pb analysis at ETH Zurich.
Conference travel grants from Mineral Deposit Studies Group (MDSG; £150) and Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA; €175) to attend Joint VMSG-MDSG Meeting 2025 in Dublin, Ireland.
Conference travel grants from International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD; €500) and from the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG; $1350 + 5 days accommodation) to attend SEG 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia.
22nd Ronald E. Seavoy Student Field Trip Program ($1500) – selected to participate in a competitive SEG Foundation-funded student field trip to the Quadrilátero Ferrifero (São Francisco craton) and Brasilia Belt (Paracatu and Vazante districts), Brazil.

2023

The Geological Society research grants (£1220) for conducting fieldwork in the Gairloch, NW Scotland.
Geological Society of Glasgow research grant (£1000) for mineralogical analysis of the Kerry Road VMS deposit.
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) student research grants ($4900) – Hugh E. McKinstry Fund – for geochronological study of metamorphosed VMS deposits at the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia.
Conference travel grant from the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG; $150 + 5 days accommodation) to attend SEG 2023 in London, UK.
NERC E4 DTP Overseas Research Visit-Conference Fund (ORVCF; £1500) for Re-Os analysis at the Ocean Resources Research Center for Next Generation, Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT), Japan.

2018-2022

E4 Doctoral Training Partnership – A highly competitive project-based studentship led by the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh with a total RTSG of up to £21,000 provided by the UK Research Institute (UKRI)-Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and CASE partner Black Raven Mining, as well as stipend (~£18,000/year). The PhD offer was given to only 25 (including 18 UK citizens and 7 internationals) out of 697 total applicants (including 284 UK citizens and 413 internationals).
Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship – Japan's most prestigious academic scholarship offered by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (MEXT). This scholarship supports foreign students to study in higher education institutions, selected either based on the recommendation of Japanese Embassy/Consulate General, University, or Authority where in this case I got the University recommendation for my two years Master course (¥144,000/months) and 6 months research students (non-degree; ¥143,000/months).
Undergraduate thesis research grants ($1000) collectively provided by the Kageogama Hardrockers of Economic Geology Professional Association of UGM Geological Engineering Alumnae, UGM Geological Engineering Alumnae Batch 2003 Foundation, and PT Multi Utama Kreasindo Mining.

Prizes and Awards

Honourable Mentions Student Presentation – Received honourable mentions for student presentations at the Mineral Deposits Studies Group (MDSG) Annual Meetings for three consecutive years: poster presentation (2024), oral presentations (2025) and mineral system talk (2026).
Best Poster Presentation SEG 2025 in Brisbane, Australia (category: Secondary Metals & Remediation) – Poster title: Understanding bismuth as critical mineral: from source to sink.
Best Poster Presentation SEG 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia (category: Vital- High Volume Base Metals) – Poster title: Vectoring in metamorphosed VMS deposit: insights from chlorite, white mica and garnet.
Best Student Prize of ExploreSA: The Gawler Challenge 2020 – A global online competition from the Government of South Australia. The challenge is to identify or predict areas of potential mineralization within the Gawler region, using any technique. Our submission was entitled "MineSAM: Specialized Machine Learning for Mineral Targeting". MineSAM is Sparveon Advanced Machine (SAM) dedicated for area prospecting using machine learning.
1st Winner of Student Research Poster Contest (SRPC) 2019 – An annual national scientific poster competition opens for all students and fresh graduates held by Indonesian Society of Economic Geologists (MGEI) during its 11th annual convention.
3rd Winner of Geology Open Challenge 2017 – A biennial geomapping team competition held by Department of Geological Engineering, Jenderal Soedirman University (UNSOED) open for undergraduate students from all universities in Indonesia.
Silver Medal on National Earth Science Olympiad 2013 – The most prestigious national science olympiad for high school students in Indonesia, joined by selected representatives from each province after two highly competitive stage in district and provincial selection. The silver medal is given to the top 15 finalists.
Runner up on National Earth Science Competitions 2012-2013 – Open competitions for high school students who interested in Earth Sciences (geology, meteorology, astronomy and oceanography) held by several universities in Indonesia. Several achievements including twice in a row (2012 and 2013) as 2nd Runner Up on National Earth Science Competition in Gadjah Mada University, 1st Runner Up and Best Presentation on National Geography Olympiad 2012 in University of Indonesia, 2nd Runner Up on National Geology Olympiad 2013 in Diponegoro University, and 3rd Runner Up on Geoscience Olympiad 2013 in Bandung Institute of Technology.