Francesca Bulian

INVESTIGADOR CONTRATADO PREDOCTORAL

DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOLOGÍA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA

INVESTIGACIÓN

Micropaleontología, Bioestratigrafía, Foraminíferos, Geochimica, Mediterraneo del pasado, Crisis de salinidad del Messiniense.

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EDUCATION

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2018-2021     PhD in geology and micropaleontology, University of Salamanca.

PhD thesis: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene offshore onshore sedimentary records in the vicinity of Gibraltar.

Supervisor: Francisco J. Sierro

Project: SALTGIANT which is a European project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n° 765256.

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2015-2017    Master’s Degree in Geology and Land Management, University of Bologna.

Master’s Thesis: Multi-proxy analyses of a marine sediment core of the Wadden Sea (Eastfrisia), Germany. 

Supervisor:  Veronica Rossi, Bernd Zolitschka

Project: The research was carried out during the six- month study abroad at Bremen University (Germany), Department of Geography and Polar Research (GEOPOLAR), within the WASA project (The Wadden Sea as an archive of landscape evolution, climate change and settlement history: Exploration – analyses – predictive modelling).

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2012-2015     Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Sciences,  University of Bologna.

Bachelor’s Thesis: Geochemical and Environmental Analysis of Water and Sediments of the Veovača Lake (Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina). 

Supervisor: Enrico Dinelli

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AWARDS

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2018-2021     Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant: PhD grant for the duration of three years.

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2017      Erasmus Scholarship: seven months stay at Bremen University (Germany), Department of Geography and Polar Research (GEOPOLAR), within the WASA project . 

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CONGRESSES AND CURSES

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ECORD Training Course (25th-29th March 2019): at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR), University of Bremen, Germany – Virtual shipboard work experience.

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USSP – Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (10-26 July 2019, 65 hours): at University of Urbino, Italy – Past Global Change Reconstruction and Modelling Techniques.

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 MEDSALT Training School (22nd–27th April 2019, 40 hours): in Sorbas, Spain – The Messinian Salinity Crisis from a fieldwork perspective.

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1st SaltGiant Field Course (29th April – May, 3rd 2019, 40 hours): in Sicily, Italy – Introduction to MSC Geology.

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SaltGiant Short Course (17th – 19th June 2019, 25.5 hours): in Trieste, Italy – Seismic data acquisition, processing, interpretation.

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SISSA medialab short course (28th – 29th November 2018): in Palermo, Italy – Communicating research and scientific writing.

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SISSA medialab short course (20th – 21th June 2019): in Palermo, Italy –  Communicating research: journalism and controversial issues.

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RCMNS INTERIM COLLOQUIUM 2019 Continental-marine interaction during the Neogene in the Mediterranean area (9th-12th September 2019); Talk presented:  Revised chronology of Alboran Sea (southwestern Mediterranean) cores and boreholes from Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene.

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PUBLICATIONS

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Bulian F., Enters, D., Schlütz, F., Scheder, J., Blume, K., Zolitschka, B. and Bittmann, F., 2019. Multi-proxy reconstruction of Holocene paleoenvironments from a sediment core retrieved from the Wadden Sea near Norderney, East Frisia, Germany. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, p.106251.

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Bulian F., 2018. Influenza culturale del clima: come i cambiamenti climatici degli ultimi 8.000 anni condizionarono la vita umana. La Battana 208, 9-42, EDIT (Croatia).