Samuel Zamora. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), E-50006, Zaragoza, Spain and Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra-IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain. Corresponding author. s.zamora@igme.es
I am an invertebrate palaeobiologist with a broad interest in critical intervals of the Phanerozoic. I graduated in Geology in 2004 and obtained my doctorate in 2009, awarded with the Best Science Thesis prize from Faculty of Sciences (Zaragoza University) in 2010. I next spent 24 months as a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum (London) and 12 at the Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of Natural History) with base in Washington DC, USA. My main interest has been the study of echinoderms through time specially from the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Ordovician Diversification Event. After get a permanent position in 2018 I have expanded my research to other invertebrate groups to tackle questions about diversity of certain groups like decapod crustaceans and environmental changes in past ecosystems. I have strong editorial service at various journals, including those from the Palaeontological Society.
Fernando A. Ferratges. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra-IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain. fer.afk87@gmail.com
I graduated in Geology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Spain) in 2017 and did Master in Geology at the University of Zaragoza (UZ, Spain) in 2018. I was granted a four-year PhD fellowship (2018-2022) at the University of Zaragoza, funded by the Spanish Government within the FPU research program, and obtained my doctorate from same University in 2022. I am a passionate “carcinologist” researcher with special interest in decapod palaeobiology and integration of geological data with fossil occurrences in order to respond evolutionary questions.
Álvaro García-Penas. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra-IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain. alvarogpenas@gmail.com
I graduated in Geology from the University of Zargoza in 2016, and studied a Master’s degree in Geology: Techniques and Applications at the same University (2016-2017). I was awarded an internship in TOTAL (2018) in Pau (France). Later, I was granted a four-year PhD fellowship (2019-2023) funded by the Spanish Government within the FPI research grant program, and currently I am finishing my PhD. My line of research focuses on sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous shallow marine carbonates, with a focus on palaeoecology of marine benthic fauna.
Marcos Aurell. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra-IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain. maurell@unizar.es
I am a sedimentologist with particular interest in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary record of the Iberian and South Pyrennean basins. I graduated in Geology in 1986 and obtained my doctorate in 1990 in the Earth Sciences department of the Zaragoza University. I had a one year postdoctoral position at the Comparative Sedimentology laboratory od the University in Miami in 1991. Back to Zaragoza, I have a position of Full Professor of Stratigraphy since 2008. My main fields of interest are the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of coastal to shallow marine environments, the reconstruction of the facies and sedimentary architecture of carbonate to mixed depositional systems, and the application of sequence stratigraphy in well-exposed sedimentary successions, in order to understand the interaction of climate and tectonics in the observed stratigraphic architecture. I was president (years 2012/2016) of the Geological Society of Spain and vice-president of the International Association of Sedimentologists (years 2018/2022).
