Alejandro Gil-Delgado. Departament de Geologia, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici Cs, 08193 - Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain. alejandro.gil@uab.cat and Museu de la Conca Dellà, Lleida, Spain.
Alejandro Gil Delgado is an FI-SDUR Predoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geology, Stratigraphy Unit, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His doctoral thesis focuses on studying the Barremian ecosystems recorded in the lithographic limestones of Montsec range (Lleida), with an emphasis on characterizing these environments through geochemical techniques.
Jordi Ibáñez-Insa. Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. jibanez@geo3bcn.csic.es
Jordi Ibáñez-Insa is a Materials Scientist specialized in using different analytical tools like X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Raman spectroscopy or optical techniques (FTIR, optical absorption/reflectance, hyperspectral imaging). His current research is focused on the investigation of the fundamental (structural, vibrational, optical) properties at ambient conditions and at high pressures of crystalline solids, including Earth materials, rare minerals, meteorites, or technologically-important compounds (advanced materials). Starting from 2010, he is the Scientific Director of GEO3BCN’s X-ray Diffraction Laboratory, which offers support to GEO3BCN researchers and also to external users from public and private universities and companies worldwide. This has allowed him to initiate new lines of research related to mineralogy (powder XRD) and geochemistry (portable XRF), as well as to establish new collaborations with several national and international research groups on different topics like planetary science, archaeology, cultural heritage, or construction materials. One of the milestones of his recent work includes the discovery of the new mineral abellaite, approved by the International Mineralogy Association in 2014, which has recently triggered new research work on rare minerals, mineral deposits and critical materials.
Albert Sellés. Museu de la Conca Dellà, Lleida, Spain and Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, 08201, Sabadell, Spain. albert.selles@icp.cat
Albert Sellés is a vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist specializing in the reproductive biology of extinct archosaurs, especially dinosaurs. Currently, he is focused on studying the macroevolutionary patterns involved in the Late Cretaceous Insular faunas from Eastern Europe. He has participated in over 30 scientific papers and has described over 8 new species of fossil species. He has done fieldwork in France, Argentina, Australia, and the United States.
Xavier Delclòs. Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain. xdelclos@ub.edu and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
My research focuses on the multidisciplinary study of Cretaceous ambers, mainly on the geology, palaeobiology of arthropod, and taphonomy of amber and its bioinclusions. Although I am paleoentomologist, I have worked in other fields such as archaeology, paleogeography and paleoecology. Since 2005 I have coordinated an international research group on Cretaceous amber (AMBERIA), based in Spain, with the participation of geologists, biologists, geochemists, and bioinformatics.
Àngel Galobart. Museu de la Conca Dellà, Lleida, Spain and Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, 08201, Sabadell, Spain. angel.galobart@icp.cat
Director of the Museu de la Conca Dellà d'Isona and of the Dinosfera space in Coll de Nargó. He is the head of the Dinosaur Ecosystems Group in Institut Català de Paleontologia and, has participated in 28 public participation research or dissemination projects. His scientific production exceeds one hundred and fifty publications, fifty of them in SCI journals or with articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a regular lecturer in informative talks related to dinosaurs and has been an invited lecturer in international and national congresses.
Matías Reolid. Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas sn, 23071 Jaen, Spain. mreolid@ujaen.es
He has a wide experience in the ecostratigraphic and taphonomic analyses of foraminiferal assemblages, fossil macroinvertebrates and trace fossils for determining palaeoenvironmental conditions. In addition, he has combined the palaeontological information with the study of microfacies, geochemical proxies for redox and palaeoproductivity conditions, and isotopic geochemistry to approach the environmental conditions previous, during and after the biotic crises related to anoxic events and hyperthermal events.
David Cruset. Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. dcruset@geo3bcn.csic.es
David Cruset, PhD, is a permanent researcher at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC). His research focuses on fluid flow evolution in fold and thrust belts, the geochronology of tectonic, sedimentary, and diagenetic processes, sedimentary basin evolution, reservoir characterization, outcrop analogues, and natural resources. He completed his PhD in Geology at the University of Barcelona (2015–2019), with a thesis on sequential fluid migration along a fold and thrust belt in the southeastern Pyrenees, from the Late Cretaceous to the Oligocene, in the Department of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Applied Geology.
Soledad Álvarez. Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. salvarez@geo3bcn.csic.es
Soledad Álvarez is a technical expert at Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3BCN), CSIC, specializing in X-ray Diffraction, applying these techniques to a wide range of geological and environmental research. Her work has contributed to various scientific publications, including studies on the heat alteration of the blue pigment aerinite in Sixena's Romanesque frescoes (Ibáñez Insa et al., 2012), quantitative Rietveld analysis of the crystalline and amorphous phases in coal fly ashes (Ibáñez Insa et al., 2013), and the ephemeral fumarolic mineralization of the 2021 Tajogaite volcanic eruption in La Palma, Canary Islands (Campeny et al., 2023).
Oriol Oms. Departament de Geologia, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici Cs, 08193 - Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain. joseporiol.oms@uab.cat
Oriol Oms is an associate professor and head of the Stratigraphy Unit at the Department of Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). A specialist in sedimentary geology, he has led four research projects and participated in around 20 others, focusing on stratigraphic records across various geological ages and depositional environments. His research spans European basins in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, as well as Georgia, Tunisia, and Eritrea. He has also contributed to geoarchaeological studies on raw material provenance, sedimentary processes, and magnetostratigraphy, with notable work at sites such as Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Spain), Buia (Eritrea), and Dmanisi (Georgia). Oms has directed eight doctoral theses and published over 100 articles in journals like Nature, PNAS, and Journal of Human Evolution. Since 2022, he has been part of the Kom el-Khamaseen project, studying sedimentary context and regional geology.
