Alberto Blanco-Piñón
Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
Apdo. Postal 1-288 Admón. 1, Pachuca
Hidalgo, CP. 42001
México

Alberto Blanco Piñón is a full-time profesor in the Centre for Investigation in Earth Sciences and Materials, Autonomous University of Hidalgo. He completed his PhD in the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico. In 1998 DAAD scholarship was awarded to complete his PhD project at the Karlsruhe University (1999-2002) in Germany. For the past five years he was working on Turonian fossil fishes from Northeastern and Central Mexico. He is currently involved in the investigation on Cenomanian/Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2) and its relation to the genesis of fossil-lagerstätten in Mexico.