Faculty
Dr. Flavia Fiorini
Assistant Professor
Ruwais Building, Room 3218
Office: +971 2 607 5245
Email: ffiorini@pi.ac.ae
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Profile:
- PhD in Paleontology, Univ. Modena, Italy 2002
- Degree in Geology, Univ. Bologna, Italy 1998
Experience:
| 2008-present |
Assistant Professor of Paleontolgy, Petroleum Institute. |
2005-2008 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama. |
2004-2005 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. |
2002-2003 |
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Bologna, Italy. |
Professional:
Experience in modern and fossil benthic foraminifera and thecamoebians from different locations and environments, taxonomy and paleoecology of benthic foraminifera and thecamoebians, paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic reconstructions based on microfossils.
Selected Publications:
Fiorini F. , in press. Ammodiscus anulatus a new species of benthic foraminifera from the Colombian Basin. Micropaleontology.
Fiorini F. , Scott D.B. & Wach G.D., 2007. Thecamoebians from the early Cretaceous of the Scotian Shelf. Micropaleontology, 53, (6): 511-516.
Fiorini F. & Jaramillo C.A., 2007. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Oligocene-Miocene deposits of southern Caribbean (Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia) based on benthic foraminifera. Boletín de Geología 29(2): 47-55.
Ricci Lucchi M., Fiorini F. , Colalongo M.L. & Curzi, P.V., 2006. Late-Quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution of the Lesina lagoon (southern Italy) from subsurface data. Sedimentary Geology 183: 1-13.
Amorosi A., Centineo M.C., Colalongo M.L. & Fiorini F. , 2005. Millennial-scale depositional cycles from the Holocene of the Po Plain, Italy. Marine Geology 222-223: 7-18.
Fiorini F. , 2004. Benthic foraminiferal associations from Upper Quaternary of south-eastern Po Plain, Italy. Micropaleontology, 50: 45-58.
Amorosi A., Colalongo, M.L., Fiorini F. , Fusco, F., Pasini, G., Vaiani S.C. & Sarti G., 2004. Paleogeographic and paleoclimatic evolution of the Po Plain from 150-ky core records. Global and Planetary Change, 40: 55-78.
Fiorini F. & Vaiani S.C., 2001. Benthic foraminifers and transgressive-regressive cycles in the Late Quaternary subsurface sediments of the Po Plain near Ravenna (Northern Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 40: 357-403.
