As a consequence of my successful application to the Bielefelder Nachwuchsfonds at Bielefeld University, I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a one-year Bielefeld Young Researcher’s fund. This “career-bridge” stipend from Bielefeld University will allow me to prepare and submit proposals for 6-year future research projects on the snail Physella acuta and to complete the analysis as well as the publication of the vast amount of data that I have collected during my previous two-year research fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.