Vincenzo Gesualdi
I’ve always been addicted since I was I child to animal documentaries and science tv programs. My passion for the Earth Sciences blossomed during my high school years since I became passionate about hiking and nature. I decided to follow this career since my bachelor’s degree and during the university course I started to love paleontology and decided to do both my thesis and now my PhD. in this. I did my bachelor on the paleoenviromental reconstruction on Messinian carbonate deposits from Apulia through the textural analysis and classification of stromatolites. I moved to Florence for my master since it offered the most complete program in paleontology and here i discovered dinosaur ichnology and decided to do my master thesis on the Late Jurassic dinosaur track of the Atacama Desert in Chile. This was also a great opportunity to visit unique countries and to see unique geological processes. Then I decided to continue with the study of dinosaur track for my PhD. now studying track from the Late Jurassic of France and Switzerland. My PhD aims to discover the complete connections between the French and Swiss ichnofauna through ichnological comparison of the dinosaur tracks from both regions along with biostratigraphical and sedimentological analysis to support this study. This will shed light on the role of the Jura carbonate platform on the dispersal of dinosaur in Laurasia during the Late Jurassic.
B.Sc. in Geology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), 2021. Thesis Title: "Classificazione tessiturale dei carbonati microbici: nuovi dati dal Messiniano del Mediterraneo".
M.Sc. in Geological Sciences and Technologies at the University of Florence, 2024. Thesis Title: “Ichnological analysis of the dinosaur tracks from the Quebrada de Arcas (Chacarilla Formation, NE Chile)".
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Dinosaur Ichnology
- Paleogeography
- Sedimentology
PROJECT:
“Jurassic Dinosaur Tracks of the Jura Massif (France, Switzerland): A megatracksite perspective and significance of regional correlation”.
TUTOR
Prof. Belvedere Matteo
Ultimo aggiornamento
28.01.2025