2024
IUGS-Initiative on Forensic Geology Committee, Forensic Palaeontology Adviser.
2023 / present
Scientific Director, Collezione di Geologia ‘Museo Giovanni Capellini’, Sistema Museale di Ateneo-University of Bologna.
2023 / present
Presidio Qualità-Quality Assurance, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
2022 / present
Expert-Referee, Public Engagement, Third Mission Activities, Osservatorio per la
Terza Missione, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. Appointed from the Rector, Prof. G. Molari
2020 / present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences,
University of Bologna, Italy.
2019 / present
Socio Corrispondente Residente, Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna
2018 / 2023
Referee AREA04 (Geology) and Referee for the Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna at the Bologna Osservatorio per la Terza Missione, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna.
Referee for the Management of Departmental Third Mission activities, Dept. of
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna
2018
National Academic Qualification as Full Professor (Ministerial Decree n.
1532/2016, ASN 2016/2018) for the disciplinary field of 04/A2 - Structural geology,
stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology. Validity 31/10/2018 to 31/10/2029
2017 / 2020
RTDb (Senior Assistant Professor) Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeobiology
Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Bologna, Italy.
2017 / present
Emerging Explorer, National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
2016 / present
Research Associate, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
2014 / present
Explorer and Grantee, National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
2013 / 2017
RTDa, Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeobiology, Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
2013 National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor
2009, Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze della Terra presso l'Università di Bologna, in co-tutela con la University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). Progetto di ricerca: Stratigrafia e paleontologia della Wapiti Formation (Cretaceo Superiore), Alberta centro-occidentale, Canada. Relatori: Professor Gian Battista Vai, Professor Octavian Catuneanu
2005, Laurea in Scienze della Terra (O.P.), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico- Ambientali, Università di Bologna. 110/110 cum laude. Tesi di laurea: Stratigrafia e paleontologia del giacimento Cretaceo di Berivotra (Mahajanga, Madagascar): implicazioni paleobiogeografiche. Presentata in lingua inglese e italiana; in collaborazione con il Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta, Canada). Relatori: Professor Gian Battista Vai, Professor Philip J. Currie
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