Marco Pavia

Marco Pavia (born August 3, 1971 in Asti ) is an Italian paleontologist . His research focus is paleornithology .

Life

After graduating from school in 1990, he studied with an Erasmus scholarship at the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1 in Villeurbanne until 1994 . In 1997 he graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in natural sciences . From 1998 to 2012 he was Scientific Advisor to the Museo Regional di scienze naturali in Turin . From January 1998 to December 2000 he studied geosciences at the University of Genoa , where he received his doctorate in February 2001 . From November 2001 to October 2003 he completed a postdoctoral phase at the University of Turin. Since February 2005 he has been a technician and collections manager at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Turin.

In the academic years 2006 to 2007, 2007 to 2008 and 2008 to 2009 he was responsible for the practical activities of the palaeontological excavation laboratory of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (Facoltà di Scienze matematiche, fisiche e naturali) at the University of Turin.

In 2007 he conducted research with a grant from the SYNTHESYS project at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden . In 2012 he worked as part of the SYNTHESYS2 project at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 2012 he became a research associate in the field of paleontology at the University of Turin. In 2014 and 2015 he was a lecturer for the Biological Evolution course in the Environmental Sciences and Land Management course at the Università del Piemonte Orientale .

Pavia's interests include the systematics , paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Neogene and Pleistocene birds, the origin and development of bird life in Italy and the Mediterranean with a special focus on the avifauna on islands, the fossil bird fauna of Africa, museology and the management of paleontological and ornithological collections , distribution and taxonomy of Italian and European avifauna, studies of bird migration , the recent avifauna of West Africa , the reconstruction and excavation of palaeontological material and the protection of cultural heritage paleontological nature in collaboration with the Superintendence for Archeology in Piedmont .

Pavia took part in scientific expeditions in Armenia , Burkina Faso , Eritrea , France , Gabon , Italy , Norway , Russia , Spain , Yemen , Peru and Serbia .

The fossil bird species described by Pavia include Athene trinacriae (2002 with Cécile Mourer-Chauviré ), Tyto mourerchauvireae (2004), Aquila nipaloides (2005 with Antoine Louchart and Claudia Bedetti ), Aegolius martae (2008), Palaeortyx volans (2008 with Ursula B . Göhlich ), Aegypius varswaterensis and Athene inexpectata (both 2014 with Albrecht Manegold ), Tyto richae (2015 with Albrecht Manegold), Bubo ibericus (2017 with Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer ), Geronticus thackerayi (2019) and the genus Bambolinetta (2014 with Gerald Mayr ).

literature

• Curriculum Vitae by Marco Pavia (PDF)

Web links

• Bibliography at Google Scholar