CURRICULUM VITAE
                  
                  
                  Personal data
                  Ismael Coronado Vila 
                  Born in Madrid, Spain, 1982
                  
                  
Academic degrees
                  
                    - 2015. Doctoral degree in Geology and Geological
                      Engineering (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain).
                      Thesis: On biomineralization of Carboniferous auloporid
                      corals [Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Rodríguez García], Summa
                      cum laude. 
 
                    - 2009. Master of Science in Paleontology (Universidad
                      Complutense, Madrid, Spain). Thesis: Biosedimentary study
                      of Las Ilces section, Cosgaya Formation, Carboniferous,
                      Cantabria (Spain). [Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Rodríguez
                      García]
 
                    - 2008. B. Sc. in Geological Sciences (Universidad
                      Complutense, Madrid, Spain), with honours. 
 
                  
                  Awards and
                    fellowships
                  
                    - 2017 - present. Post-doctoral fellowship at Institute of
                      Paleobiology. Warsaw, Poland. 
 
                    - 2016. Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Geology by the
                      Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain).
 
                    - 2015. Front cover in Geobiology journal with the article
                      “Reconstructing a Carboniferous inferred coral-alcyonarian
                      association using a biomineralogical approach”.
 
                    - 2015. Poster Award. 12th International Symposium of
                      Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. German University of
                      Technology in Oman (GUtech) and International Association
                      of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera.
 
                    - 2014. PALEONTUROLOGÍA 14. International Award in
                      Palaeontology Research. Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico
                      de Teruel-Dinópolis, la Fundación Teruel Siglo XXI and
                      Sociedad Gestora Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel
                      (Dinópolis, Teruel, Spain).
                     
                  
                  Grants
                  
                    - 2011. Short-term fellowships abroad. FPI-UCM 2011.
                      (Universidad Complutense). Formation Program of
                      Researchers (FPI-UCM). Funding organism: Universidad
                      Complutense. [October 2012 – December 2012 in University
                      of Alabama (USA)].
 
                    - 2012. SYNTHESYS; FR-TAF-2397 ‘Systematic,
                      microstructural, biomineralogical and
                      palaeobiogeographical studies of the Carboniferous
                      auloporids corals deposited in the Muséum National de
                      l´Histoire Naturelle, MNHN (Paris, France)’ [1stJune 2012
                      - 15th June 2012].
 
                    - 2013. Grant for the Summer School Courses of El Escorial
                      in the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain), for the
                      Course Laser ablation spectroscopy and methods:
                      multidisciplinary analysis (forensic, archaeology, food
                      industry and healthcare).
 
                    -  2015-2016. Research grant of Spanish Palaeontology
                      Society. Coronado, I. (PI). “Structure and
                      crystallographic arrangement of Axophyllidae skeletons
                      (Rugosa) from Mississippian (Carboniferous): possible
                      architectural and evolutionary implications”. 
 
                    -  2016. Travel grant of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
                      (Germany) to attend the XXV von Humboldt Spain Meeting
                      (Bergara, Guipuzcoa, Spain).
 
                  
                  Other projects
                  
                    - 2017-2018. Polish National Science Centre (NCN) project
                      "Significance of proteins in biomineralization of calcium
                      carbonate gravity sensors in fossil and modern fish"
                      [participant; collaboration with prof. J. Stolarski] 
 
                    - 2014-2017. Project POLNOR - The Changing Ocean of the
                      Polar North. Work Package 3 (Recent and subfossil
                      biomineral skeletons of Arctic carbonate sediments and
                      organisms as (paleo)environmental archives: a critical
                      assessment). Programme "Polish-Norwegian Research
                      Cooperation" [participant; collaboration with prof. J.
                      Stolarski] 
 
                  
                  Participation in scientific meetings 
                  
                    - The 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization
                      (BIOMIN XIV) From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses
                      to Environmental Science, October 9-13, 2017, Tsukuba,
                      Japan.
 
                    -  1st International Meeting of Early-Stage Researchers in
                      Palaentology – XIV Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en
                      Paleontología (IMERP•XIVEJIP), Alpuente (Valencia). April
                      2016. Poster communication. ISBN: 978-84-608-7449-2
 
                    -  13th International Symposium on Biomineralization.
                      Granada (Spain). September 2015. Poster communication.
 
                    -  12th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and
                      Porifera. GUtech, Muscat (Oman). February 2015. Poster
                      communication.
 
                    -  Gondwana 15 North meets to South. Superior Technical
                      School of Mining Engineers, Madrid (Spain). June 2014.
                      Oral and poster communication.
 
                    -  Laser applications in archaeology, geology, forensic
                      sciences, and food industry. Universidad Complutense,
                      Madrid (Spain). February 2014. Invited speaker with the
                      talk ‘Using LIBS in Recent and fossil corals:
                      palaeothermometry and seasonality’.
 
                    -  X Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología.
                      Sot de Chera, Valencia (Spain). April 2012. Poster
                      communication.
 
                    -  XXVII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de
                      Paleontología. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel
                      Crusafont. Sabadell (Spain). Octuber 2011. Sociedad
                      Española de Paleontología. Oral communication. ISBN:
                      978-84-615-3001-4
 
                    -  XXX Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía.
                      Fundación Goméz Pardo, Madrid (Spain). September 2010.
                      Sociedad Española de Mineralogía. Poster communication.
                      ISSN 1885-7264
 
                    -  Workshop on Biominerals and Biomineralization
                      Processes. Fundación Goméz Pardo, Madrid (Spain).
                      September 2010. Sociedad Española de Mineralogía. 
 
                    -  8th Annual Meeting of the European Association of
                      Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Aix-en-Provence (France).
                      June 2010. Poster communication. 
 
                    -  XXV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología.
                      Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Ronda (Spain).
                      September 2009. Sociedad Española de Paleontología. Oral
                      communication. ISBN: 978-84-9747-312-5
 
                    - XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología.
                      Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, Colunga, Asturias (Spain).
                      October 2008. Sociedad Española de Paleontología. Oral
                      communication. ISBN-13: 978-84-691-6581-2
 
                  
                  PhD students
                  
                    - Sara Mandera "Amorphous precursors: a key for
                      understanding structure and biogeochemical composition of
                      modern and fossil calcium carbonate skeletons"
                      [supervisor]