Curriculum Vitae Claudia Agnini

 

Metrics updated at 20/09/2018

Range publication: 2006-present

Scopus: H-index 16; Publications 46; Citations 877

ISI: H-index 15; Publications 39; Citations 787

Google Scholar: H-index 17, Publications 98; Citations 1135

 

Educational and Professional qualifications

• December 2014-present: Associated Professor at the Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy).

• 2013: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (National Scientific Abilitation), for associate and full professorship 04/A2 - Geologia Strutturale, Geologia Stratigrafica, Sedimentologia e Paleontologia (period of validity: 24/12/2013 al 24/12/2019).

• December 2011- November 2014: Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy).

• April 2009- 2016: Adjunct researcher at the Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse of the CNR (National Research Center)- Padova (Italy).

•December 2008- November 2011: Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università degli Studi di Padova.

• January 200 November 2008. Renewed biannual post-Doc fellow at the Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università degli Studi di Padova. Research topic: “Interaction between global changes and evolution: evidencs provided by calcareous plankton during the Eocene “: Supervisor: Prof. Domenico Rio.

• March 12, 2007: PhD degree (XIX series) In Earth Sciences (mention Doctor Europaeus) Università degli Studi di Padova. Thesis title: “Biochronology and environmental significance of Early Paleogene calcareous nannofossils”. Supervisor: Prof.ssa Eliana Fornaciari Co-supervisor: Prof. Jan Backman.

• March 25, 2003: Master Degree in Geological Sciences Università degli Studi di Padova. Thesis title: “Biostratigrafia a nannofossili calcarei del Paleocene superiore-Eocene inferiore nel Vallone Bellunese (Veneto, Italia)”. Supervisor: Prof. Domenico Rio. Geological survey thesis: Rilevamento geologico dei dintorni di Schievenin (Nord-Est Monte Grappa). Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Grandesso.

 

Work experience (consulting and self-employment)

• Consulting e and self-employment (art. 7.16 Regolamento – Decreto Rettorale n. 877 del 03.05.99. Analisi quantitativa dei nannofossili calcarei del Paleocene medio delle sezioni del Torrente Ardo e del Torrente Cicogna (circa 100 campioni). 19.09.2003/ 30.11.2003.

• Consulting e and self-employment (art. 7.16 Regolamento – Decreto Rettorale n. 877 del 03.05.99. Analisi uantitative dei nannofossili calcarei al passaggio Paleocene-Eocene della sezione del Torrente Forada (circa 150 campioni). 26.05.2003/ 30.09.2003.

 

Reasearc interests

My research field is micropaleontology and I particularly focus on calcareous nannofossils. This group of fossils consists of small platelets secreted by planktonic calcareous algae. Their fossil remains are routinely used for biostratigraphic and biochronologic aims because they are abundant and widely distributed in the modern as in the past oceans and they have high evolutionary rates. Their most common application is related with the oil exploitation but more recently they have been used to provide paleoenviromental and paleoclimatic information.

In this context,my research is focused on data retrived from marine on-land successions as well as sediments drilled during DSDP, ODP, IODP expeditions: My research activity is devoted to mainly two areas of interest, distinct but in some way complementary:

-The first is focused on the application and implementation of the available biostratigraphic schemes and this is essentially obtained by means of semi-quantitative methodologies that allow for a better evaluation of the reliability, reproducibility and synchroneity of the biohorizons used in the different biozonations. My research activity has focused mainly on the Paleogene though I have been involved in projects investigating different time slices (e.g. Mesozoic and Neogene)

- The second is related to the paleoclimatic, paleoenviromental and paleoceanographic significance of calcareous nannofossils. Within this vast research topic, I have matured a deep interest in the study of climatic variability during the Paleogene with a particular attention to the relationship between geosphere and biosphere, in other words between modifications of the abiotic system and changes of the biotic system.

 

Funded projects, Collaborations/Scientific activities

Funded projects

• Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo SID (2016 -prot. BIRD161002) (Principal Investigator): “A Bloom of Knowledge into the Sea: undiscovering the mystery of the early-middle Eocene overturning” € 25.202);

• MURSDEN FUND 2012 (12-GNS-001) (Associate Investigator): Surviving in the Eocene ocean: the unbearable warmness of being (PI: Chris Hollis - NZ$ 960.000);

• PRIN 2010-2011 (Associate Investigator): Eccesso di CO2 nel passato geologico: risposte del biota a cambiamenti globali di caldo estremo e acidificazione degli oceani” (National coordinator Prof.ssa Elisabetta Erba - € 602.696);

• Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo (2009 -prot. CPDA095875) (Principal Investigator): “Evidences of early Cenozoic paleoenviromental and paleoclimatic evolution from a southern Pacific record” (€ 20.800);

• PRIN 2007 (Associate Investigator): “Accelerazioni evolutive nel plankton calcareo e loro relazione con i cambiamenti globali durante il Mesozoico ed il Cenozoico. I cambiamenti globali ne sono responsabili?” (National coordinator Prof.ssa Isabella Premoli Silva - € 180.000);

• PRIN 2005 (Associate Investigator): “Evoluzione Biologica e Cambiamenti Globali: storia evolutiva degli ecosistemi pelagici in alcuni intervalli del Tardo Mesozoico-Cenozoico Inferiore registrata nei sedimenti dell’Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) e affioranti a terra” (National coordinator Prof.ssa Isabella Premoli Silva - €140.000);

• PRIN 2003 (Collaborator): “Variazioni climatiche nel regime a effetto serra dal Cretacico inferiore all'Eocene Inferiore e transizione al regime glaciale: evidenze nei sedimenti pelagici dell'Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) e affioranti a terra” (National coordinator Prof.ssa Isabella Premoli Silva - €150.000).

Reasearch Stay abroad/ Oceanographic expeditions

• July 27 -September 26, 2017: Paleontologist (Calcareous nannofossils) during IODP Expedition 371 (Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate).

• April-June 2013: Visiting scientist at the Department of Geological Sciences - Stockholm University – Stockholm, Sweden.

• June 2 - Agost 1, 2012: Paleontologist (Calcareous nannofossils) during IODP Expedition 342 (Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts).

• March 2010: research stay at GNS Science, Wellington (New Zealand).

• Summer 2005: Stage under the supervision of Prof. Patrizia Ziveri at the Department of Paleoclimatology and Geomorphology (Vrije Universiteit di Amsterdam). Topic: Acquisition of laboratory methodologies applied on calcareous nannofossils.

• Co-tutor post_Doc fellow (Dott. Edoardo Dellanave - 2009) - prot. CPDR099029). Research title: ”Indagini paleomagnetiche nel Paleogene inferiore dell’area veneta: Implicazioni cronologiche e paleo climatiche”.

Collaborations

I have a continuous and productive scientific collaboration with research from other Italian (e.g., Milan, Parma, Ferra, Urbino, Florence, Chieti, Catania, Modena, ..) foreign (e.g., Stockholm, Bremen, Southampton, Houston, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Munich, …) Universities, and Research Institute (e.g., CNR, INGV, GNS Science - Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Geological Survey of New Caledonia).

 

Teaching, organizational, supervisor activities

Teaching activities

• A.A. 2018/2019: Teaching activity in Applied sedimentary geology course (1 CFU-13h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica; Teacher in charge: Prof Massimiliano Ghinassi) – Università di Padova. Held in English.

• A.A. 2018/2019: Teacher in charge of Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-55h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2018/2019: Teacher in charge of Micropaleontology Course (6 CFU-65h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova. Held in English

• A.A. 2017/2018: Teacher in charge of Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-55h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2017/2018: Teacher in charge of Micropaleontology Course (6 CFU-65h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova. Held in English

• A.A. 2016/2017: Teacher in charge of Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-55h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2016/2017: Teacher in charge of Micropaleontology Course (6 CFU-65h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova. Held in English

• A.A. 2015/2016: Teacher in charge of Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-55h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2015/2016: Teacher in charge of Micropaleontology Course (6 CFU-65h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova.Held in English

• A.A. 2014/2015: Teacher of Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-48h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2014/2015: Teacher in charge of Micropaleontologia Course (6 CFU-65h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2014/2015: Teaching activity in the Paleontologia Course(18h) (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Geologiche) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2013/2014: Teacher in charge of the Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-48h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2013/2014: Teaching activity in escursione multidisciplinare (multidisciplinary trip) (32h) (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali – Università di Padova).

• A.A. 2012/2013: Teacher in charge del of the Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-48h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2011/2012: Teacher in charge del of the Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia Course (6 CFU-48h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2010/2011: Teacher in charge of the Geologia Storica e Paleoecologia mod. B Course (4 CFU-32h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2010/2011: Geochimica applicata Course (6 CFU-48h) (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2010/2011: Teaching activity in escursione multidisciplinare (32h) (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2010/2011: Teacher in charge of the Geologia Storica e Paleoecologia mod. B Course (60h) (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali Teacher in charge Prof. Domenico Rio) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2009/2010: Teacher in charge of the Geologia Storica e Paleoecologia mod. B Course (4 CFU-32h) (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze della Natura) – Università di Padova.

• l’A.A. 2009/2010: Teaching activity in Paleontologia Generale Course (48h) (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof.ssa Eliana Fornaciari) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2008/2009: Teaching activity in Paleontologia Generale Course (48h) (Laurea triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof.ssa Eliana Fornaciari) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2008/2009: Teaching activity (24h) in Micropaleontologia Course (Laurea Magistrale in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica; Teacher in charge: Prof.ssa Eliana Fornaciari) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2007/2008: Teaching support (25 h) in Geology Course (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof. Paolo Grandesso) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2006/2007: Teaching support (25 h) in Geology Course (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof. Paolo Grandesso) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2005/2006: Teaching support (25 h) in Geology Course (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof. Paolo Grandesso) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2004/2005: Teaching support (25 h) in Geology Course (Laurea Triennale in Scienze Naturali; Teacher in charge: Prof. Paolo Grandesso) – Università di Padova.

• A.A. 2004/2005-2007/2008. Assistant in fieldtrips of Natural Sciences Courses (Geology and Historical and regional Geology) degli studenti del Corso di Laurea in Scienze Naturali durante alcune delle escursioni dei Corsi di Geologia e Geologia Storica Teachers in charge: Prof. Paolo Grandesso e Dott. Luca Capraro) – Università di Padova.

 

Organizational activities

• 2018-present. Member of the Council of School of Science - Università di Padova.

• 2018-present. Coordinator of the Doctoral Course in Earth Sciences, Università di Padova.

• 2017- present. Vice- President of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova.

• 2017- present. Coordinator of the Teaching committee of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova.

• 2017-present. Manager ASL (alternanza scuola-lavoro/ shool/work program) topic: Paleoclimate

• 2016-present: Manager Erasmus of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova.

• 2015-2018. Vice-Coordinator of the Doctoral Course in Earth Sciences, Università di Padova.

• 2013- present. Member of the GAV (Gruppo di auto valutazione – Auto evaluation committee) of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova.

• 2013-present. Member of the Teaching committee of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova.

• 2013-2017. Member of Area Scientific committee (Scienze della Terra- Earth Sciences) – Università di Padova.

• 2013-2017. Member of the Department Scientific committee – Università di Padova.

• 2012-2014. Member, as representative of the Assistant Professors, of the Department Council (Giunta) of the Dipartimento di Geoscienze – Università di Padova.

• 2009- present. Member of the PhD Board of the Doctoral Course in Earth Sciences – Università di Padova.

• 2009- 2017. Member of the stage and diploma committee of the Natural Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sciences of the Nature (Master degree) programs – Università di Padova. Responsible diploma subcommittee (2014-2019).

• Member of the examination board for the Courses of Geologia (2007-2010) e Paleontologia (2007-2011) (Bachelor degree in Natural Sciences), Geologia Storica and Paleoecologia (2008-present), Paleoecologia e Paleoclimatologia (2011-present), Geologia Storica e Regionale (2011-present) (Master degree in Scienze della Natura (2008-present); In addition Micropaleontology (2007-present), Geochimica Applicata (2009-2011) and Paleoclimatologia e Paleooceanografia (Master degree in Geologia e Geologia Tecnica (2011-present) – Università di Padova.

Supervisor activities

• A.A. 2004/2005-present. Supervisor or co-supervisor in bachelor or master degrees in Natural Sciences and Geology

Supervisor of PhD thesis:

• 2015-present. Carlotta Cappelli (XXXI ciclo - Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra, Università di Padova Middle Eocene calcareous evolution: implications for paleoceanographic reconstruction.

2015 – present. Chiara Balestrieri (XXXI ciclo - Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra, Università di Padova. Calcareous nannofossil carbonate flux in the Southern Ocean in the Holocene

• 2009-2012. Federica Toffanin PhD (XXIV ciclo - Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra, Università di Padova). Biochronologic and evolutionary study of calcareous nannofossil assemblages during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum.

 

Seminars/outreach activities

• 2018. Il Bo Live. Al lavoro, di notte, sul mare di Tasmania https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/lavoro-notte-sul-mare-tasmania

• 2018. Rai Scuola. Memex-Galileo (puntata 40). Paleoclima quando la Terra non aveva calotte Polari http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/programma-unita/claudia-agnini-paleoclima-qu...

• 2018. Rai 3 - Tg Leonardo (mer, 3 gen 2018): “Il periodo più caldo della Terra” http://video.waypress.it/rassegnavideo/20180103/Tg%20Leonardo%20Rai%203%....

• 2014. L’evoluzione climatica negli ultimi 65 milioni di anni: una storia di grandi cambiamenti. Museo di Archeologia e Scienze Naturali “G. Zannato” – Sistema Museale Agno Chiampo. Montorso vicentino (VI), June 9, 2014.

• 2010. I fossili: Clessidra del tempo geologico e archivio della vita del passato. Eppur si muove, Padova, October 12-15, 2010.

• 2009. Scientific collaboration Exposition “Il Futuro di Galileo. Scienza e tecnica dal Seicento al Terzo Millennio”. Padova, February 28 – June 14 2009.

• February 2007. Seminar: Mel (BL): “Microfossili e clima nel passato: evidenze dall’antico mare della Valbelluna e dai sedimenti oceanici” tenuta nell’ambito di una serie di conferenze su “ Le rocce della Valbelluna: un prezioso archivio del clima e della vita del passato”.

• Febbraio 2007. Seminar: “La sedimentazione pelagica attuale” held in the course of “Ciclostratigrafia dei carbonati mesozoici” (Prof. Nereo Preto) of the PhD School on Earth Science; Università di Padova.

• 2006. Assistant in geological field trips in the Belluno area for schools.

 

Course/Stage/workshop participation

• LEAP course “Teaching and communicating in English” (30h). Padova, April-May 2016.

• Course ”Quando sulla terra la vita rischiò di scomparire” Prof. Michael J. Benton (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol). Milano (Italy), January, 29-31, 2007.

• Course “Ciclostratigrafia dei carbonati mesozoici”Prof. Nereo Preto (Università di Padova). Padova (Italy), January -March 2007.

• Course “Chemostratigraphy: applications, limitations and implications for environmental change” Prof. Hugh Jenkyns (Oxford University). Trieste (Italy), July 23-26, 2007.

• Course “Sediments and climate change through the Phanerozoic” del Prof. William Hay (University of Colorado). Milano (Italy), October 1-5, 2007.

• Stage under the supervision of Prof. Patrizia Ziveri at the Department of Paleoclimatology and Geomorphology (Vrije Universiteit di Amsterdam). Topic: Acquisition of laboratory methodologies for calcareous nannofossils. Amsterdam, summer 2005.

• Course Statistica Multivariata Davide Mana. Parma, September 28-30, 2005.

• Course ECOLMAS - Course on “Greenhouse Climate and Carbon Cycle dynamics: lesson from the Early Paleogene”. Brema (Germany), November 11-12 2004.

 

Scientific society or research consortium memberships

2017- present. Società Paleontologica Italiana (SPI)

2016- present. CoNISMa.

2012- present. Società Geologica Italiana (SGI)

2009- present. The Micropaleontological Society (TMS)

2006- present. European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2005- present. International Nannoplankton Association (INA)

2005- present. American Geophysical Union (AGU)

 

Editorial/Reviewer activity

Reviewer for international journals:

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Paleoceanography, Biogeosciences, Climate of the Past, Marine Micropaleontology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Geoscience Frontiers, Geobios, Revue de Micropaléontologie, Journal of Micropaleontology, Paleoworld, Geosciences Journal, Italian Journal of Geosciences, Journal of Nannoplankton Research, Geologica Carphatica, Geologica Croatica, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

 

Reviewer for National (PRIN, SIR, …) and International (Research Council KU Leuven, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)…) research projects.

 

Congress/workshop participation

• Editorial Meeting & Sampling Party IODP Exp. 371. College Station, TX (USA), January 23 - February 4, 2018.

• European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly 2017. Wien, April 23-28, 2017. Co-convener Session SSP4.2: Carbonate systems: paleoceanography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy

• 12th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP12). Utrecht, August 29-September 2, 2016.

• Post Cruise Meeting (IODP Exp. 342). Salt Lake City (UT, USA), September 22-27, 2015.

• STRATI 2015, Second International Congress on Stratigraphy. Graz (Austria), July 19-23, 2015.

• Spring Meeting of the Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) - Discoaster Workshop, Plymouth 14-18th June 2015. Invited speaker.

• Congress SGI-SIMP. The future of Italian Geosciences - The Italian Geosciences of the future. Milano (Italy), 10-12 September 2014.

• Climatic and Biotic Event of the Paleogene CBEP 2014. Ferrara (Italy), July 1-6, 2014. Member of the Organizing committee CBEP 2014.Invited speaker.

• STRATI 2013, First International Congress on Stratigraphy. Lisboa, July 1-7, 2013.

• “86° Congresso Nazionale della Società Geologica Italiana: il Mediterraneo un archivio geologico tra passato e presente”. Arcavacata di Rende (CS – Italy), September 18-20, 2012.

• “Giornate di studio ed incontro: Spettrometria di massa isotopica”. San Michele all’Adige (TN, Italy), April 11-13, 2012.

• “Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene – CBEP”. Salzburg (Austria), June 5-8, 2011.

• PEAT Post Cruise Meeting (Exp. 320-321). Parigi, April 10-14, 2011.

• Deep Sea & Sub-Seafloor Frontier (DS3F) workshop. Urbino (Italy), July 23-26, 2010.

• “The Colors of Cretaceous and Paleogene Oceans”. Verbania (Italy), May 16-19, 2010.

• European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly 2010. Wien, May 2-7, 2010.

• Geoitalia 2009. Rimini (Italy), September 9-11, 2009.

• European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly 2009. Wien, April 19-24, 2009.

• “100 anni di Geologia Feltrina. Feltre (Italy), June 19-21, 2008.

• European Geosciences Union 2008. Wien, April 13-18, 2008.

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting 2007. San Francisco (USA), December 10-14, 2007.

• Geoitalia 2007. Rimini (Italy), September 12-14, 2007.

• European Geosciences Union 2007. Wien, April 15-20, 2007.

• “Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene CBEP-VI”. Bilbao (Spain), June 12-20, 2006.

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting 2005. San Francisco (USA), December 5-9, 2005.

• Post Cruise Meeting ODP Leg 208. Padova-Belluno, 20-24 Aprile 2005. Member of the organizing committee Post Cruise Meeting ODP Leg 208 “Early Cenozoic Extreme Climates”.

• 32th International Geological Congress. Firenze (Italy), Agost 20-28, 2004.

• “Climate and biota of the early Paleogene CBEP-V - Fifth international conference on global events and reorganization of the biosphere in the Paleocene- Eocene transition”. Luxor (Egypt), February 8-12, 2004. Convener of the 5th session: “Early Paleogene climatic history”.

• Bioevents: their stratigraphical records, patterns and causes. Caravaca (Spain), June 3-8, 2003.

• European Geophysical Society, American Geophysical Union and European Union of Geosciences (EGS-AGU-EUG) Joint Assembly. Nice (France), April 2003.