Assistant Professor in Palaeoecology, Faculty of Social Sciences
I have a BSc in Biological Sciences (2006) and a MSc in Geoenvironmental Analysis also from the University of Guarulhos (2009), and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Florida Institute of Technology, USA (2017). I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (2018-2019) before starting my second postdoctoral associate researcher position at the University of Reading.
My research experience spans the following areas: Quaternary Palynology Pollen, Phytoliths and Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPP's) Megafauna Extinction Palaeoecological and Climatic Reconstructions Pre-Columbian Amazonia Past Human-Environment Interactions
Marco actively teaches in the following modules in the School of Geography:
On Earth and Life (Convenor) Introduction to GIS First-year tutorials Dissertation Preparation The Changing Environment Research tutorial Dissertation supervision Third Year Geography Fieldcourse Unearthing the Past (Convenor) Tropical Environments in the Anthropocene
2025-2027: (Co-I) On a UKRI-NERC Amazon +10 initiative: "Voices of Indigenous Amazonia: historical processes of socio-biodiversity in the face of the challenges of the Anthropocene". In collaboration… read more
2025-2027: (Co-I) On a UKRI-NERC Amazon +10 initiative: "Voices of Indigenous Amazonia: historical processes of socio-biodiversity in the face of the challenges of the Anthropocene". In collaboration with the University College London (PI), University of London (Birkbeck), and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
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