报告题目：Natural history of the Amazon region and its seaward extension
报告人：Maria Catharina（Carina）Hoorn
报告时间：2018年10月9日 （周二），下午2:20
报告地点：一教202
专家介绍:阿姆斯特丹大学副教授，地质古生物学家，主要研究美洲亚马逊地区和亚洲中部地区的自然历史。在Nature, Nature Geoscience, Science, Science Advances等杂志发表SCI论文50余篇，担任多个杂志编辑。获得中国科学院国际人才计划（PIFI）支持。
ACADEMIC CAREER（科研单位任职情况）
2018: Associate professor at University of Amsterdam
2018: PIFI Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017: Ikiam – Universidad Regional Amazonica – Interim Board Member – advisor Research
2003-2018: Research Associate at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (University of Amsterdam).
2005-2006: Editor Writer at Exploration and Production Technology (Shell International Exploration and Production, Rijswijk, The Netherlands).
2004-2005: Lecturer at Delft University of Technology (replacing professor Kroonenberg being on sabbatical).
2000-2003: Education in Science Communication at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London). MSc degree awarded. Dissertation title:“The flooding of autumn 2000: An analysis of environmental catastrophe reporting in three broadsheet newspapers”.
2000-2002: Research Associate at the Herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
1996-1998: Lecturer at the Sultan Qaboos University (Sultanate of Oman). Coordinator of 5 geology courses.Acting Head of Department of Earth Sciences (for one term). Member ofthe Research Committee of College of Science and the Editorial Board ofJournal for Science and Technology.
1995: Postdoctoral research on palynology of the Quaternary sediments of the Amazon Fan (ODP leg 155).
1988-1989: Researcher in Colombia. Subject:Neogene geology of northwestern Amazonia.
A Dutch-Colombian cooperation project.
EDITORIAL WORK（担任杂志编辑情况）
2018: Associate Editor Journal of Biogeography & special issue Humboldt.
2015-2018: Chief editor of „Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity‟ for Wiley. 2015: Co-editor of the special issue inGrana2016, volume 55(1).
2007-2010: Chief editor of „Amazonia landscape and species evolution: A look into the past‟ published by Wiley-Blackwell.
2006: Chief guest-editor of special issue ofJournal of South American Earth Sciences: 11 articles on Amazonia.
In addition, a range of oil industry related editorial tasks.
CHAIR SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS（主持学术会议情况）
2018-2019: co-organizer Alexander von Humboldt meeting August (2019).
2018 (October): Latinamerican conference on Botany (Quito, Ecuador), co-convener
2018 (April): EGU, The Andean foreland basins: Tectonics, climate, surface processes, and georesources, co-convener
2016: International Palynological Conference, Salvador, Brazil: Phanerozoic Palynology in Amazonia.
2013: Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop, Universität Tübing en Germany: Advisory board.
2012: International Palynological Conference, Tokyo, Japan: Session SS42 Neogene global tectonic and climatic change as drivers in plant evolution: linking the palynological, palaeobotanical and molecular records.
2011: Congreso Latinoamericano de Geologia, Medellin, Colombia. Session on the Meso- Cenozoic history of Amazonia.
2009: NECOV, The Netherlands): Tropical Paleoecology.
2003: Latinamerican Sedimentological Conference, Belem, Brazil: Amazonia. Session on Amazonia.
