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]