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Burjachs Casas, Francesc
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ICREA Research Professor at IPHES (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social). Humanities
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Born on 3th August 1955 in Blanes, Girona. Dissertation on Palynology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 1985. DEA on Quaternary, MNHN–IPH, Paris, 1986. PhD in Biological Sciences, UAB, 1990. Contributor of the Botany Department, UAB, 1979-1990. Director and co-director of several archaeological excavations. Hired researcher at Institute of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera”, CSIC, Barcelona, 1990-1998. Research Assistant at Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve, 1994. Associate Professor at University “Rovira i Virgili” (URV), Tarragona, 1998-2001. ICREA Research Professor at URV (2001-2007) and at the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES), since 2008. Training stages of palynological research abroad: CRA, Sophia Antipolis, France, 1978, with Prof. M. Girard; IPH, Paris, 1985-1987, with Prof. J. Renault-Miskovsky; and University “La Sapienza”, Roma, 1991, with Prof. M. Follieri. He has published more than 170 papers, including Nature.
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Research Interest
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My investigation serves to understand the climatic changes that happened along the human evolution. This information is important to appreciate some of the factors which has influenced our evolution to the current species. Concretely, my work is developed in the field of the science of the Palynology, which basically consists in study the fossil pollens that remained trapped in the earths that stepped on our ancestors. In this way, we can know the landscape in which they lived, the climate that they supported, the vegetables they eat, etc.
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KeyWords
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Palaeopalynology, archaeopalynology, prehistory, palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironment, social evolution.
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ERC Codes
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Evolutionary biology, biological adaptation, Humanities
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