Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros. Departamento de Ecología y Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga. Campus de teatinos s/n. 29071 Málaga, Spain. johnny@uma.es
The author graduated in 1989 in Biological Sciences at the University of Málaga, where he also completed his doctoral thesis on the study of the sutural complexity of Late Jurassic ammonoids. From 2001 to 2003 he carried out a postdoctoral stay at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to study the sutural complexity of Cretaceous ammonoids. He then returned to the University of Málaga with a postdoctoral contract to study the Neogene-Quaternary large mammal faunas of the Iberian Peninsula. In 2008 he joined the Palaeontology Department of the University of Malaga as a lecturer. His research focuses on a wide range of topics related to the application of statistical methods and data analysis to solve problems in the fields of Neontology and Palaeontology. He is currently working on several lines of research including palaeoecology and ecomorphology of mammals, especially hyaenids.
