Short biography
PhD in Biological Sciences by the Univ. of Barcelona in 1981. Director of the Inst. of Paleontology M. Crusafont from 1985 to 2005. ICREA Research Professor at IPHES since 2005. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya for his scientific merits. Scientific Literature Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2001). President of the Regional Committee on Neogene Mediterranean Stratigraphy from 1999 to 2009 and voting member of the Subcomission on Neogene Stratigraphy (IUGS, UNESCO). He is author or co-author of 151 papers published in indexed journals (WOS), among them Nature (4), Science (1) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (3), as well as 162 papers in non-indexed Spanish and international journals. He is author or co-author of 52 book chapters. He has edited 14 books or monographs and written 16 books. He has directed 14 PhD thesis and 9 Master thesis. H-Index (WOS):41,
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