Marine Banse recognised for excellence in bioacoustics research

A PhD student at the Functional and Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory at the University of Liège (ULiège), Marine Banse has recently been honoured with two scientific awards that highlight the quality and originality of her work in fish bioacoustics.

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er research focuses on the evolutionary mechanisms of sound communication in aquatic species. Marine Banse has just been awarded two prizes: the Fishes Travel Award 2024, presented in March 2025 by the scientific journal Fishes (MDPI), enabled her to participate in a renowned international conference.

This mobility grant funded her trip to the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC), where she had the opportunity to present the results of her PhD thesis. Her presentation was particularly well received, and she was awarded the Best Presentation Award on 13 June 2025 for the best oral presentation of the event.

These distinctions also testify to the key role played by ULiège in this field of research. The Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, headed by Prof. Parmentier, is internationally recognised for its advances in fish acoustics. Part of the Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution and the FOCUS unit, it combines expertise in histology, physiology, animal behaviour and phylogeny to better understand the evolutionary mechanisms involved in sound communication in aquatic species.