Jens N. Lallensack. Departamento de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. jens.lallensack@posteo.de
I obtained my PhD in Geosciences at the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2018. My work focuses on fossil tracks, particularly those of dinosaurs, with a strong emphasis on methodology, including photogrammetry, statistics, and programming. I have developed algorithms to define track margins objectively and to calculate gaits based on variation patterns in long trackways. I also worked on the cranial osteology of basal sauropodomorphs. I am currently a postdoc at the Computer Science Department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where I explore uses of machine learning/AI to study tracks, a work that is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Giuseppe Leonardi. Istituto Cavanis, Dorsoduro 898, 30123 Venezia, Italy and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CCMN, Instituto de Geociências - Geology Department, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, 21949-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. leonardigiuseppe879@gmail.com
Born in Venice, Italy, 1939. I obtained my Doctor in Sciences, specialized in paleontology, at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy. I am a vertebrate (field) paleontologist, specialised in vertebrate palaeoichnology (fossil tracks), in particular tracks of dinosaurs and Permian tetrapods. Formerly professor of Historical Geology, Geology of Brazil, Paleontology of Vertebrates, and Geology for Engineers at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, and member of the Brazilian National Council for Researchers. Currently I am a Senior Associate Researcher of the Dept. of Geology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Associate Curator of the Museo della Scienza of Trento-MUSE (Italy). I produced about 250 scientific contributions, and conducted 96 field expeditions in six continents. Specialist in methodology and terminology of fossil tracks. With my groups, both in Italy and Brazil, I am currently working on Cretaceous dinosaurs of Brazil and on newly discovered fossil tracks (Lopingian and Ladinian) in the Italian Dolomites.
Peter L. Falkingham. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. P.L.Falkingham@ljmu.ac.uk
I am Professor of Palaeobiology in the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. My research interests are centered around track formation, and inferring biomechanics from fossil tracks. I also have a keen interest in, and experience with, computational simulation and imaging methods, and write a blog providing guides and tutorials in this area.
My group and I are currently exploring the extent to which locomotor evolution throughout the dinosaur to bird lineage is preserved in the ichnological record. We combine traditional ichnological approaches with high-performance computer simulation and advanced 3D imaging techniques including XROMM and CT. This research is funded by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (selected by the ERC for a Consolidator award).
