Silvia Danise si laurea in Scienze Geologiche presso l’Università di Firenze nel 2005 con una tesi sulla geologia e sedimentologia del Bacino del Valdarno Superiore. Appena laureata lavora per tre anni come geologo presso la Regione Toscana, ma dopo questa esperienza decide di tornare in università, e nel 2011 consegue il titolo di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra, con una tesi in paleontologia intitolata “Modern and fossil whale fall communities”. Dal 2011 al 2014 è ricercatrice post-doc presso la University of Plymouth, Regno Unito, dove è parte di un progetto che indaga le estinzioni di massa mesozoiche e i relativi cambiamenti climatici. Nel 2015 vince una “Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship” e trascorre due anni negli Stati Uniti (University of Georgia) e uno nel Regno Unito (University of Plymouth). Ad ottobre 2018 grazie al “Programma Rita Levi Montalcini”, dedicato ai ricercatori italiani che hanno svolto ricerca all’estero, ha l’opportunità di tornare in Italia come ricercatore a tempo determinato. A dicembre 2019 ottiene l"Hodson Award", un premio alla carriera della Società' Paleontologica inglese per ricercatori con meno di 10 anni di attività di ricerca. Da ottobre 2021 è professore associato in Paleontologia e Paleoecologia.
POSIZIONE ACCADEMICA ATTUALE
• Dal 10.201 PROFESSORE ASSOCIATO in Paleontologia e Paleoecologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
EDUCAZIONE
• 03.2011 DOTTORATO IN SCIENZE DELLA TERRA. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze.
• 04.2005 LAUREA (5 anni) IN SCIENZE GEOLOGICHE. Indirizzo geologico-paleontologico. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze. Votazione 110/110.
CARRIERA ACCADEMICA POST-DOTTORATO
• 10.2018-10.201 RICERCATORE A TEMPO DETERMINATO (rtdb) “RITA LEVI MONTALCINI” Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• 01.2017-12.2017 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [SoGEES], Plymouth University, UK. Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (return phase).
• 01.2015/12.2016 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. Department of Geology, University of Georgia, USA. Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (outgoing phase).
• 06.2014/12.2014 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE. SoGEES, Plymouth University, UK.
• 04.2011/05.2014 RESEARCH FELLOW IN PALAEONTOLOGY. SoGEES, Plymouth University, UK.
ESPERIENZE LAVORATIVE POST-LAUREA
PRINCIPALI AREE DI RICERCA
• Paleoecologia delle comunita’ bentoniche
• Stratigraphic Palaeobiology
• Estinzioni di Massa del Mesozoico (Toarciano inferiore; Permo-Trias)
• Comunità chemosintetiche [whale fall communities]
• Tafonomia dei vertebrati marini
PRINCIPALI COMPETENZE
• Analsisi statistica multivariata applicata alla palaeoecologia [Programmi: R-language, Primer-Permanova, Past].
• Sedimentologia, Stratigrafia Sequenziale, Rilevamento Geologico
• Microscopia Ottica ed Elettronica (SEM) su rocce sedimentarie e fossili. Catodoluminescenza.
• Geochimica degli isotopi stabili (ossigeno e carbonio) su macroinvertebrati (bivalvi, brachiopodi, belemniti).
FINANZIAMENTI
2018 “Rita Levi Montalcini Programme for young researchers”. PI; project “Marine benthic community response to climate change: the Mid Pliocene Climatic Optimum” (PI: €152,933)
2017 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant; California State University – Fullerton. (Co-PI: $15,000)
2014 Palaeontological Association Grant-in-aid’ (PI: £2,000)
2013 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development. (PI: €282,109.20)
2013 Palaeontological Association Research Grant. (PI: £6,665)
2013 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant. (PI: £2,000)
2012 EU SYNTHESYS Grant
2012 Marine Institute Education Fund, Plymouth University. (PI: £300)
2007 Borsa di Studio “Jacopo Ficai Award” per tesi di dottorato, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Italy. (PI: €24,000; rifiutato)
2002 Borsa di Studio Erasmus/Socrates Scholarship (Universidad de Granada, Spagna, 6 mesi)
PREMI
2019 "Hodson Award", The Palaeontological Association, UK.
2014 Premio “Decio De Lorentiis” per la tesi di Dottorato, Museo di Maglie, Italia.
2008 Premio di laurea “Aldo Anselmi”. Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, Italia.
ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONVEGNI
2017 “Carbonate systems: paleoceanography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy”. Co-chair. European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
2015 “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. Co-chair. European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
2014 “Comparative palaeoecology of Phanerozoic extinction events”. Co-chair. 4th International Paleontological Congress, Argentina.
2014 “Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: from modern exploration to the geological and fossil record.” Lyell Meeting of the Geological Society of London. Principale organizzatore.
SEMINARI AD INVITO
2017 Geoscience Seminars, University of Leeds, UK. “Stratigraphic Palaeobiology of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway: faunal response to sea-level and climate change”.
2017 Keynote lecture. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. Vienna, Austria. “Taphonomy of large marine vertebrates: from modern whale falls to the fossil record”.
2017 Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University. “Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway”.
2016 UT Paleo Seminar Series, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”.
2015 Geoscience Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”.
2014 Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”.
2014 National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”.
2013 School of Natural System, Kanazawa University, Japan. “Modern and fossil shallow water whale fall communities”.
2013 Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. “Palaeocommunity changes across the early Toarcian extinction event: a case study from the Cleveland Basin, UK”.
2013 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. “Modern and fossil whale falls: did Mesozoic analogues exist?”.
2011 CRESS Research Conference, Plymouth University, UK. “Modern and fossil shallow-water whale falls. Plymouth University.
2010 Georg–August-Universität Göttingen, Geobiologie group, Germany. “Detecting biotic activity from fossil whale-falls: from benthic invertebrates to micro-organisms“.
SUPERVISIONE DI STUDENTI
2015-2016 co-tutor, tesi di laurea “Carbonates of the Gypsum Springs and Sundance Formations, Western Interior Seaway”. University of Georgia,USA. Studente A. Poncelet.
2013-2015 co-tutor, tesi di dottorato "Palaeoecology of the Late Permian extinction and subsequent recovery." Plymouth University. Studente W. J. Foster.
2013-2014 co-tutor, tesi di master. “Marine benthic community dynamics through the Rhaetian to Sinemurian interval”. Plymouth University. Studente J. Brown.
2012-2013 co-tutor, tesi di master “Taphonomy and palaeoecology of a Jurassic Ichthyosaur”. Plymouth University. Studente K. T. Matts.
2013 co-tutor, progetto “Palaeoecology of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis, UK” finanziato dalla Ussher Society, UK. Studente A. Pugh, University of Leeds.
PRINCIPALI ESPERIENZE DI RICERCA
2014-2016 Fieldwork: Wyoming, Montana, USA. Giurassico, stratigrafia sequenziale e paleoecologia (12 sett.)
2014 Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK. Visita alla collezione di vertebrati marini (1 sett.)
2015 Smithsonian Institution – Department of Paleobiology. Visita alle collezioni di invertebrati marini (1 sett.)
2014 Natural History Museum, London, UK. Visita alla collezione di vertebrati marini (1 sett.)
2013 Fieldwork: Giappone (Toyora Area), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (1 sett.)
2013 Museo Geominero & Dpto. De Paleontología, Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spagna. Visita alle collezioni di invertebrati marini (2 sett.)
2012 Fieldwork: Spagna (Iberian Range), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (3 sett.)
2011-2012 Fieldwork: North Yorkshire, Dorset e Somerset (UK), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (6 sett.)
2010 Fieldwork: Appennino Settentrionale, Pliocene, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (3 sett.)
2009 Ospite al Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orleans, Francia (1 sett.)
2008-2009 Ospite al Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Tjärnö, Svezia. (2 sett.)
2007 Sito di Drimolen, South Africa, scavo paleoantropologico (4 sett.)
2007 Orciano Pisano,Toscana, scavo di una balena Pliocenica (1 sett.)
2004 Bacino del Valarno Superiore, Toscana, Plio-Pleistocene, rilevamento geologico e sedimentologia (tesi di laurea)
2000 Meride (Svizzera), Calcare di Meride, Triassico, scavo di vertebrati marini (1 sett)
MEMBRO DI: Palaeontological Association; Paleontological Society;
Societa’ Paleontologica Italiana; PaleoBiology Database; Euroepan Geosciences Union; International Association of Sedimentologists.
LINGUE: Italiano. Inglese (avanzato). Spagnolo (principiante)
Legenda
Present position
RESEARCHER (RTDB)
“Rita Levi Montalcini Programme for young researchers”
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Previous Academic Appointments
POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development – return phase
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plymouth University, UK
EU project “MAREST, MARine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover”
Advisors: Prof Gregory Price, Prof Steven Holland
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development – outgoing phase
Department of Geology
University of Georgia, USA
Advisors: Prof Steven Holland, Prof Gregory Price
RESEARCH FELLOW IN PALAEONTOLOGY
NERC project “Evolution of modern marine ecosystems: controls on their structure and function”
Advisor: Prof Richard Twitchett
Education
PhD in EARTH SCIENCE
Dissertation: Modern and fossil whale fall communities
Advisors: Prof Simonetta Monechi, Dr Stefano Dominici, Dr Barbara Cavalazzi
INTEGRATED MASTER in EARTH SCIENCE
Thesis: Geological mapping and sedimentological study of an Intermontane Neogene Basin, central Tuscany
Final grade 110/110
Research interests
Paleoecology of marine macro-invertebrates; Sequence Stratigraphy & Sedimentology; Stable Isotope Geochemistry; Taphonomy of marine vertebrates
Funding
€152,933 “Rita Levi Montalcini Programme for young researchers”
PI; project “Marine benthic community response to climate change: the Mid Pliocene Climatic Optimum” (2018)
$15,000 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant; California State University - Fullerton
Co-PI; project: “Documenting Reef Recovery After Mass Extinction” (2017)
£2,000 Palaeontological Association Grant-in-aid’ (2014)
Key-note speaker funds for the symposium “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
€282,000 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (2013)
PI; project “MAREST, MARine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover. Call identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
£6,670 Palaeontological Association Research Grant (2013)
PI; Project “Mesozoic marine reptile dead-falls: analogues of whale fall communities?”
£2,000 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant (2013)
PI; Fieldwork for the study of Early Jurassic sections in Japan
€1,200 EU SYNTHESYS Grant (travel and subsistence, 2012)
PI; project “Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls”
Visiting at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (1 week)
£300 Marine Institute Education Fund, Plymouth University (2012)
Travel grant
€24,000 Jacopo Ficai Award, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Italy. (2007, declined)
PI; project “Ecosistemi associati a carcasse di balena: evidenze dal Pliocene Mediterraneo”
€2,000 Erasmus/Socrates Scholarship
Universidad de Granada, Spain, 6 months
Awards
2014 PhD thesis award, Premio Decio De Lorentiis, Museo di Maglie, Italy.
2008 Master thesis award, Aldo Anselmi. Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, Italy.
Organization of Symposia
2017 - Co-chair. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. 14-17 September 2017 Vienna, Austria.
2017 - Co-chair. “Carbonate systems: paleoceanography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 26.04.2017
2015 - Co-chair. “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 13.04.2015
2014 - Main organiser. Lyell Meeting of the Geological Society of London. Title “Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: from modern exploration to the geological and fossil record.” 12.03.2014
2014 - Co-organiser. Symposium “Comparative palaeoecology of Phanerozoic extinction events”. 4th International Paleontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina. 03.10 2014
Invited Presentations & Seminars
2017 - Geoscience Seminars, University of Leeds, UK. “Stratigraphic Palaeobiology of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway: faunal response to sea-level and climate change”. 01.12.2017
2017 - Keynote lecture. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. Vienna, Austria. “Taphonomy of large marine vertebrates: from modern whale falls to the fossil record”. 15.09.2017
2017 - Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University, UK. “Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway”. 22.02.2017
2016 - UT Paleo Brown Bag Seminar Series, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”. 25.02.2016
2015 - Geoscience Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”. 23.01.2015
2014 - Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”. 07.05.2014
2014 - National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”. 30.04.2014
2013 - School of Natural System, Kanazawa Univesity, Japan. “Modern and fossil shallow water whale fall communities” 14.11.2013
2013 - Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. “Palaeocommunity changes across the early Toarcian extinction event: a case study from the Cleveland Basin, UK”. 12.11.2013
2013 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. “Modern and fossil whale falls: did Mesozoic analogues exist?” 21.03.2013
2011 - CRESS Research Conference, Plymouth University, UK. “Modern and fossil shallow-water whale fall communities”. 16.11.2011
2010 - Georg–August-Universität Göttingen, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Germany. “Detecting biotic activity from fossil whale-falls: from benthic invertebrates to micro-organisms“. Geobiologie group. 23.11.2010
Mentoring Activity
2016 - Undergraduate project, co-advisor. “Carbonates of the Gypsum Springs and Sundance Formations, Western Interior Seaway: Implications for changes in salinity and temperature in the Middle to Late Jurassic”. University of Georgia. Student Austin Poncelet
2015 - PhD project, co-advisor. “Palaeoecology of the late Permian mass extinction event and subsequent recovery”. Plymouth University. Student William J. Foster
2013-2014 - MGeol project, co-advisor. “Marine benthic community dynamics through the Rhaetianto Sinemurian interval”.Plymouth University. Student James Brown
2012-2013 - MGeol project, co-advisor. “Taphonomy and palaeoecology of a Jurassic Ichthyosaur”. Plymouth University. Student Katie T. Matts
2013 - co-advisor of the undergraduate project “Palaeoecology of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis, UK” funded by the Ussher Society. Student Autumn Pugh, University of Leeds
Teaching Experience
2018 - Invertebrate Palaeontology Lab: classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy
2017 - Guest lecture: Palaeoecology (1 hour theory; 2 hours practical). Sedimentology and Palaeontology module (undergraduates-second year). Plymouth University, UK
2017 - Co-leader of the Pembrokeshire field-trip, Wales, UK (1 week; undergraduates-second year). Plymouth University, UK
2016 - Guest lecture: Sedimentary Basins (1 hour). Sedimentary Geology module (undergraduates). University of Georgia, USA
2016 - Guest lecture: The fossil record (1 hour). Primate Ecology and Evolution module (graduate & undergraduates). University of Georgia, USA
2013 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK
2012 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK
2012 - Co-leader of field-trip to Lyme Regis, Dorset (1 day). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK
2011 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology. (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK
2011 - Co-leader of the Eastern Sicily Field Excursion (12 days; undergraduates-third year). Plymouth University, UK
2010 - Co-leader of the field-trip to the K-T Boundary, Gola del Bottaccione, Gubbio, Italy(1 day; undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy
2009 - Guest lecture: Invertebrate Palaeontology (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy
2009 - Guest lecturer: Invertebrate Paleontology. Theory and laboratory (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy
2008 - Guest lecturer: Invertebrate Paleontology. Theory and laboratory (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy
Principal Field Experience
2018 - Nevada, USA, Middle Triassic sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (2 weeks; in collaboration with Prof Nicole Bonuso, California State University Fullerton, USA)
20 - Wyoming & Montana, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 5 weeks)
2015 - Wyoming & South Dakota, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 6 weeks)
2014 - Wyoming, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy (1 week). Collaboration with Prof Steven Holland, University of Georgia, USA
2013 - West Japan (Toyora area), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (1 week). Collaboration with ProfKazushige Tanabe, University of Tokyo
2012 - Spain (Iberian Range), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 3 weeks)
2012 - United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)
2011 - United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)
2011 - Dorset and Somerset, Triassic-Jurassic e stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 3 weeks)
2010 - Northern Apennine, Tuscany and Emilia, Pliocene, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)
2007 - Drimolen, South Africa, paleo-anthropological excavation. Supervisor C. Menter University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) (4 weeks)
2007 - Val di Fine Basin, Tuscany, Italy, excavation of a Pliocene fossil whale. Supervisor Elisabetta Cioppi, Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Firenze (1 week)
2004 - Tuscany, Intermontane Valdarno Basin, Plio-Pleistocene, geological mapping and sedimentology (Master Thesis fieldwork, 4 months)
2000 - Meride, Switzerland, Kalkschieferzone (Meride’s limestone, Triassic), excavation of marine vertebrates. Supervisor Prof Andrea Tintori, Università di Milano (Italy) (1 week)
Additional Research Experience
2015 - Visiting at the Smithsonian Institution – Department of Paleobiology for the study of Middle-Upper Jurassic macro-invertebrate collection (1 week)
2014 - Visiting at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK for the study of the Mesozoic marine vertebrate collection (1 week)
2014 - Visiting at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, for the study of the Mesozoic marine vertebrate collection (2 weeks)
2013 - Visiting at the Museo Geominero, Madrid, and at the Dpto. de Paleontología, Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spain to study Early Jurassic bivalve and brachiopod collections (2 weeks)
2013 - Visiting at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Jurassic-Cretaceous marine vertebrate collections (1 week)
2009 - Visiting at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orleans, France. Lab. of F. Westall. SEM-EDX and Raman analyses on fossil whale bones (1 week)
2009 - Visiting at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (Tjärnö) at Göteborg University, Sweden). ROV survey and macro-invertebrates sampling at a modern whale whale-fall (1 week)
2008 - Visiting at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (Tjärnö) at Göteborg University, Sweden). ROV survey and macro-invertebrates sampling at a modern whale whale-fall (1 week)
Service
Manuscript review: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (2017); Geology (2015, 2016); Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (2017); Nature Communications (2017); Palaeontology (2017), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2015; 2018); Palaios (2014); Paleobiology (2017; 2018); Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2017). https://tinyurl.com/publons-Danise
2017- member of the IGCP 655 (Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems). http://igcp655-toae.com/members/
2017: Judge for the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO Award contest at the EGU General Assembly 2017
2017: Judge for the UK Geological Society SW Regional Group’s annual schools competition
2016: Judge for the Geological Society of America Geobiology Student Awards
2016: University of Georgia Researcher Orientation and Ongoing Training Series. Presentation "International opportunities for postdocs in Europe". https://tinyurl.com/postodcs
2015: Meeting Report “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. Palaeontology Newsletter 90, 64-66.
Outreach & Media attention
2016 - Interviewed in the documentary “Tales of a Whale” [ITA/ENG; University of Florence production], on modern and fossil whale fall communities in the Mediterranean Sea, together with other international experts on this topic [Adrian Glover, NHM, amongst the others]. The video is part of the permanent exhibition of the Natural History Museum of Florence, Italy.
2015 - Designer and keeper of the website MAREST, on my Marie Curie project on faunal response to sea level and climate change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway, Western USA.
2015 - Day by day report of my 2 months fieldwork in Wyoming and South Dakota on the travel blog TrackMyTour.
2015 - Online coverage of S. Danise, N.D. Higgs (2015, Biology Letters) Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile falls, including the following science sites and blogs: Science News, National Geographic, the BBC News. Study also featured in Nature Research Highlights (Nature 520, 411) and in the journal “Natural History” (No. 6 – June 215).
2015 - Online coverage of S. Danise et al. (2015, Geology) Environmental controls on Jurassic marine ecosystems during global warming, including the following science sites: PhysOrg, NHM Science News.
2014 - Online coverage of S. Danise et al. (2014, Nature Communications) Ecological succession of a Jurassic shallow-water ichthyosaur fall, including the following news sites and blogs: New Scientist, National Geographic, Nature World News and Yahoo News. Study also cited in the French Journal "Especes" (No. 15 - March 2015).
Language Competency
Italian (native)
English (read, spoken, written)
Spanish (read, spoken [intermediate], written [basic])
Data Analysis Competency
R, language and environment: for statistical computing and graphics
Past, Primer-E, Permanova package: for ecological data, experimental designs and modelling
Professional Memberships
Palaeontological Association
Paleontological Society
European Geosciences Union
Societa’ Paleontologica Italiana