Universitat de Barcelona

Postdoctoral Collaborator, Animal Biology

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Website: http://www.microwear.org
Blog: http://dentalecology.blogspot.com

I'm a collaborator researcher at the Department of Animal Biology - Anthropology at University of Barcelona, working on primate dental ecology, mostly on Amboseli baboons…

I did my PhD - http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-0330107-140708/ - about the dental microwear pattern in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea primates, by using dental casts obtained in several osteologic collections. The final result was an ecological and feeding ecology model usable for fossil primates, as Dryopithecus or Oreopithecus, as well as hominids.

In 2006 I obtained a postdoctoral fellowship "Beatriu de Pinós" from the "Generalitat de Catalunya", and in 2007 the “Floquet de Neu (Snowflake) 2007” fellowship (Barcelona de Serveis Municipals); both in order to develop a project about feeding ecology and dental microwear variability in Papio cynocephalus from Amboseli (Kenya). In this project I study dental microwear pattern, dental wear, and dental morphology in Amboseli baboons. This population has been widely studied by the “Amboseli Baboon Research Project” - http://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/ , and its teeth research could inform about dental microwear and tooth wear dynamics, as well as its relation to feeding ecology and other ecologic factors.

I can send you any of the publications not available here, upon request.

Feel free to contact me for any collaboration or question about my research.

Best,

jordi

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