Team

Ongoing PhD Students

Francisco Costa - Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): evolution, paleobiology and the paleobiogeographical role of the Portuguese record

Alexandre Guillaume - Lissamphibia and Lepidosauria in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Darío Estraviz Lopez - Pleistocene vertebrates from Portugal: Paleobiodiversity, paleoecology and quality of the fossil record.

Simone Conti - Biomechanics of dinosaurs: sauropod body movement and its engineering applications

Filippo Maria Rotatori Evolutionary rates of basal iguanodontians around Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Europe

João Russo Evolution of nodosaurid dinosaurs and description of a new skeleton from the Late Jurassic of Portugal

André Saleiro Diet and niche partitioning of Late Jurassic giant herbivores, with focus on Portuguese dinosaurs

Victor Rojas Lopez- Differential evolution of skull and postcranial in Triassic archosaurs: unlocking the phytosaur phylogeny

Roberta Martino - R-eassessment of the evolution and morphological variability of Neogene and Quaternary European hippopotamoids

João Pratas Sousa - Systematics, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Mesozoic marine reptiles from Portugal

PhD Concluded

Marco Marzola The Late Triassic reptilian and amphibian fauna of the Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland: description, phylogenetic context, and paleoenvironmental implications.

Bruno Pereira Portuguese Mesozoic echinoderms: systematics, stratigraphy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Christophe Hendrickx Evolution of teeth and quadrate in non-avian Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia), with the description of Torvosaurus remains from Portugal

Emanuel Tschopp Evolution of Diplodocid Sauropod Dinosaurs with Emphasis on Specimens from Howe Ranch, Wyoming (USA)

Master concluded

  1. Alexandra Fernandes
  2. Alexandre Guillaume
  3. André Saleiro
  4. Daniel O'toole
  5. Darío Estraviz Lopez
  6. Eliza Estrup
  7. Filippo Maria Rotatori
  8. Florian Bouabdellah
  9. Francisco Costa
  10. Hugo Campos
  11. Joana Bruno
  12. João Marinheiro
  13. João Muchagata Duarte
  14. João Pratas
  15. João Russo
  16. Maciej Ruciński
  17. Miguel Marx
  18. Nicolai Christiansen
  19. Rita Isabel Rodrigues Vilas Boas
  20. Simon Callesen
  21. Victor Feijó de Carvalho
  22. Víctor López Rojas
Members of GeoBioTec, Group: Sedimentary Basins and Paleontology

Geobiotec Site

Ausenda Cáceres Balbino, Évora University, full professor, ORCID: 0000-0001-9441-1043
Eduardo Puértolas Pascual, FCT.NOVA, postdoc researcher FCT, ORCID: 0000-0003-0759-7105
José Carlos Kullberg, FCT.NOVA, associate professor with habilitation, ORCID: 0000-0001-7899-5990
Lígia Sousa Castro, FCT.NOVA, assistant professor, ORCID: 0000-0002-4584-4501
María Ríos Ibáñez, FCT.NOVA, postdoc researcher FCT, ORCID: 0000-0001-7242-1259
Martim Chichorro, FCT.NOVA, assistant professor, ORCID: 0000-0001-5000-0736
Miguel Moreno Azanza, FCT.NOVA, postdoc researcher FCT, ORCID: 0000-0002-7210-1033
Octávio Mateus, FCT.NOVA, associate professor with habilitation, ORCID: 0000-0003-1253-3616
Paulo Legoinha, FCT.NOVA, associate professor with habilitation, ORCID: 0000-0002-7592-7949

Collaborators 

Alexandre Daniel Vila Verde dos Santos
Alexandre Renaud Daniel Guillaume
André Saleiro Barros
Bruno Miguel Claro Pereira
Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Alves Natário
Carmen Nuñez-Lahuerta
Darío Estraviz Lopez
Emanuel David Tschopp
Filippo Maria Rotatori
Francisco João da Costa Pinto
João Paulo Vasconcelos Mendes Russo
Manuel Vieira
Pedro Alexandre Pereira Correia
Pedro Manuel Simões Rosa Fialho
Pedro Miguel Callapez Tonicher
Ricardo Jorge da Conceição Henriques Pimentel
Rúben Samuel da Silva Domingos
Simão Gustavo Madeira Mateus
Simone Conti