Department: GEOLOGÍA

PhD school: GEOLOGÍA

Area: Palaeontology

Research group: GRUPO DE GEOCIENCIAS OCEÁNICAS

Email: montseag@usal.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Salamanca with the thesis Cambios climáticos a escala orbital y milenaria en el Atlántico norte entre 800.000 y 400.000 años 2011. Supervised by Dr. José Abel Flores Villarejo, Dr. Francisco Javier Sierro Sánchez.

Degree in Geology (2005) and Doctor in Geology (2011) by the University of Salamanca. Postdoctoral contracts in University of South Florida (USA) and Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera/Centro de Ciencias do Mar (Portugal). Professor at the University of Salamanca since 2019. Teaching subjects: General Paleontology, Vegetal Paleontology, Micropaleontology, Paleoceanography, and Climate Change. Research: climate and oceanographic changes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Proxies that I use: foraminifers, foraminifer geochemistry (stable isotopes and trace elements), ice-rafted debris, XRF analysis, grain-size analysis, and biomarkers.