Examples of successful applicants for the 2017/18 SRF round.
| Name (Country) | Project |
| Viktor Baranov (Germany) | Chironomidae mandibles: plesiomorphic condition or case for re-evolution of character once lost? |
| Albert Chen (United Kingdom) | The early evolution of crown-birds: Phylogenetic and morphological case studies |
| Shannon Corrigan (United States) | A diagnostic PCR test for discriminating cryptic shark species with mitochondrial admixture |
| Christopher Doble (United Kingdom) | Developing an environmental DNA reference database for fish species within Lake Tanganyika’s basin |
| Rudolph Valentino Docot (Philippines) | Boesenbergia Kuntze (Zingiberaceae) of the Philippines |
| Emily Fountain (United States) | Identifying cryptic speciation in sloths and re-evaluating their conservation status |
| Kathryn Hall (Australia) | Co-evolutionary studies of the gyliauchenid fish parasites and their microbiomes |
| Kimberly Hansen (United States) | Evolution in the Andes: taxonomy, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Kohleria (Gesneriaceae) |
| David Kenfack (United States) | Phylogenetic position of Crateranthus (Lecythidaceae) |
| Somayyeh Kheiri (Iran) | Diatom Biodiversity of Sulphur springs in Rameh, Semnan, Iran |
| Andrii Khomenko (Ukraine) | Taxonomic revision of the Caucasian leeches (Annelida, Hirudinida) |
| Tomas Lackner (Germany) | The evolution of ecological specialization: gain/loss of psammophily in histerid beetles |
| Deborah Leigh (Canada) | Untangling cryptic diversity in high Arctic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) |
| Nathan Masters (United Kingdom) | Opaline Colours in South African Flora |
| Brittney Oleniacz (United States) | Spiders in North American Cretaceous Amber |
| Andrés Orejuela (United Kingdom) | Evolution of epiphytism in Solanaceae |
| Cristian Román-Palacios (United States) | Molecular systematics of the genus Bryconamericus (Characidae: Stevardiinae) |
| PRAKASH S (India) | Systematics of coral reef caridean shrimps of Gulf of Mannar, South India |
| Priscila Salloum (New Zealand) | Using traditional mt-DNA for intraspecific surveys in the genomic era |
| Gisela Sancho (Argentina) | Understanding the Austral distribution of Lagenophora Cass. (Asteraceae) |
| Pedro Joel Silva da Silva Filho (Brazil) | Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Study of Rhynchospora Sects. Laevinuces, Luzuliformes, Spermodontes and Tenues (Cyperaceae). |
| Sergi Taboada (United Kingdom) | A new symbiotic relationships between a carnivorous sponge and its annelid host |
| Verónica Urgiles (United States) | Molecular and morphological diversification of a cryptic group of terrestrial frogs in a high altitude tropical hotspot. |
| Mariana Wagner (Brazil) | Systematics of the Myrcia amazonica DC. clade (Myrtaceae) |
| Emilia Wendt (Brazil) | Parasite-host relationships: understanding the effects of ecology and biogeography on diversification of monogenean |
| Johanna Weston (United Kingdom) | Mitogenome approach to the phylogeography of the hadal scavenging amphipod, Bathycallisoma schellenbergi |
| Loubab Zedane (United Kingdom) | On the evolution of fog-harvesting plant adaptations: a study of the South African genus Eriospermum |
| Mateusz Zmudzinski (Poland) | Unveiling extinct mite meioworlds: fossil Prostigmata (Arachnida: Acariformes) diversity in Baltic amber |