| Finn, Charles William | Probing the connection between the intergalactic medium and galaxies with quasar absorption-line spectroscopy | 2015 | Durham University | GMOS-S | UK |
| Gagne, Jonathan | The search for low-mass star and brown dwarf candidate members of young moving froups in the solar neighborhood | 2015 | Universite de Montreal | GNIRS/FLAMINGOS-2 | Canada |
| Garcia, Luciano | Analogos del cinturon de Kuiper en estrellas simples y binarias | 2015 | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | NICI/TRECS | Argentina |
| Gusmão, Danilo Maciel Lopes | Estudo multi técnicas das regiões HII ultracompactas por espectroscopia de alta resolução espacial | 2015 | Universidade do Vale do Paraiba | | Brazil |
| Hernández-Jiménez, José Andrés | Efeitos da Interação na Cinemática, Morfologia e Dinâmica das Galáxias em Fusão Menor AM1219 430, AM2058 381 e AM1228 260 | 2015 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | GMOS-S | Brazil |
| Lena, Davide | Aspects of supermassive black hole growth in nearby active galactic nuclei | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GMOS-S | USA |
| Mooley, Kunal P. | Exploring the dynamic radio sky: the search for slow transients with the VLA | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Patel, Brandon | Type Ia supernovae: their progenitors and use as cosmological probes | 2015 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | GMOS-N | USA |
| Rapson, Valerie Ann | Infrared investigations of the composition and structure of nearby protoplanetary disks | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GPI | USA |
| Reiter, Megan Ruth | Measuring the Physical Properties of Protostellar Outflows from Intermediate-Mass Stars in Feedback-Dominated Regions | 2015 | The University of Arizona | GeMS+GSAOI | USA |
| Rosa, Deise Aparecida | Interactions effects on galaxy pairs with Gemini/GMOS | 2015 | Universidade do Vale do Paraiba | GMOS-S | Brazil |
| Schimoia, Jáderson da Silva | Double peaked profiles: revealing the presence of accretion disks in the broad line region of active galaxies | 2015 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | GMOS-S | Brazil |
| Simanton, Lesley Ann | Star Cluster Populations in the Spiral Galaxy M101 | 2015 | University of Toledo | GMOS-N | USA |
| Singer, Leo P. | The needle in the hundred square haystack: the hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Bahramian, Arash | Behavior of low-mass X-ray binaries and their formation in globular clusters | 2016 | University of Alberta | NIFS | Canada |
| Rogerson, Jesse Aaron | Monitoring Broad Absorption-Line Quasar Variability | 2016 | York University (Canada) | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | Canada |
| Naud, Marie-Eve | Detection and characterization of distant giant exoplanets around low-mass young stars using direct imaging | 2016 | Universite de Montreal | GNIRS/GMOS-S/NICI/PHOENIX | Canada |
| Andrews, Jeffrey John | Double white dwarfs as probes of single and binary star evolution | 2016 | Columbia University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Ballering, Nicholas | Measuring the Structure and Composition of Circumstellar Debris Disks | 2016 | The University of Arizona | TRECS | USA |
| Bassett, Robert C. | Resolving the spectral properties of extremely star-forming galaxies at z=0.1 | 2016 | Swinburne University of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | Australia |
