Sergio Álvarez-Parra
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
sergio@nigpas.ac.cn
Sergio is a biologist specialized in palaeontology, who received his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona in 2023. He is currently working as a Special Research Assistant at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the taxonomy and palaeobiology of fossil insects preserved as both compressions in rock and bioinclusions in amber, with a primary emphasis on the orders Hymenoptera and Psocodea. Additionally, he is interested in taphonomy, aiming to elucidate the formation of the amber-bearing outcrops and understand the preservation of amber itself. Sergio has gained experience through research stays at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, and the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, as well as by participating in several fieldworks in Spain and China.
