Eduardo Apostolos Machado Koutsoukos

B.Sc. - Geology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), December 1977. Doctor of Phylosophy (Ph.D.), University of Plymouth, U.K., January 1990. Ph.D. in Micropalaeontology & Applied Stratigraphy by the University of Plymouth, U.K. (1990). Habilitation/ Privat-Dozent & Venia Legendi (Geologie und Paläontologie) - Fakultät für Geowissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg, 23rd April 1997. Senior Staff Scientist/Research Geologist at the Petrobras Research & Development Center (CENPES) in Rio de Janeiro, from January 1978 to June 2011. Head of the Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology Section (SEBIPE) of CENPES, in Rio de Janeiro, September 1994 to October 2000. Research Consultant, Trinidad & Tobago Oil Co. Ltd. (TRINTOC), Port-of Spain, Trinidad, Sept.?Dec. 1984. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, tenable at the Geologich-Paläontologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, October 1993 to September 1994. Lectured for 13 consecutive years, from 1992 to 2004, conducting an advanced M.Sc./D.Sc. course at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre. Leader-in-Chief of the International Geological Correlation Programm ? IGCP Project 381 (UNESCO/IUGS): South Atlantic Mesozoic Correlations, from February 1995 to February 2001. Co-leadership with Peter Bengtson (Universität Heidelberg). Editor of the project newsletter SAMC News (ISSN 1413-6813), from 1995 to 2001. Member of the Editorial Board of Cretaceous Research (ISSN 0195-6671), Elsevier, since January 1998, and of Stratigraphy (ISSN 1547-139X), Micropaleontology Press, New York, since 2002; Associated-Editor of Cretaceous Research, from July 2012-June 2013. President-Chairman (2002-2006) of the Organizing Committee of FORAMS 2006 ? the International Symposium on Foraminifera, held in Natal, Brazil, in September 2006. Vertrauenswissenschaftler der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung ("Humboldt Ambassador Scientist") for Brazil, from March 2008 to March 2014. Currently working as Editor-in-Chief of Cretaceous Research, since July 2012. Member of the Board of Directors of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, since October 1996; President from October 1999 to September 2000, and from January to December 2014. Privatdozent (Priv.-Doz.; Associate Professor of Paleontology) at the at the Geologie-Paläontologie Institut für Geowissenschaften of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, since April 1997. Member of the Board of Directors of The Micropaleontology Project, Inc., New York, editorial office of Micro Press, from Feb. 2008 to October 2014. Research & Teaching Interests: Systematics, biostratigraphy, phylogeny, paleoecology, paleoceanography and biogeography of Cretaceous and Paleogene biota. Applied Stratigraphy. Stratigraphic record and the biotic response of Cretaceous oceanic dysoxic-anoxic events. Evolutionary paleobiology. Extinction events and patterns of biotic recovery in the aftermath. Geobiology and Earth system evolution. Study of evolving ecosystem interactions and dynamics. Quaternary biostratigraphy, ecological and paleoecological applications in environmental characterization and monitoring. Graduate and undergraduate training and teaching in Applied Paleontology, Paleobiology and Earth System History. Development, curatorship, care, and management of museum collections in Earth History Sciences.

Formado em Geologia em 1977 pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, doutorado (Ph.D.) em Micropaleontologia & Estratigrafia Aplicada pela University of Plymouth, Reino Unido (1990), pós-doutorado pela Fundação Alexander von Humboldt - University of Heidelberg, Alemanha (1993-1994), Habilitação (Dr. habil.) e a Venia Legendi em Geologia & Paleontologia pela Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1997). Entre 1995 e 2001 coordenou o Projeto No. 381 (South Atlantic Mesozoic Correlations) do Programa Internacional de Correlação Geológica (IUGS/UNESCO). Entre 1992 a 2004 foi Professor Colaborador no Curso de Pós-Graduação em Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Chefiou o Setor de Bioestratigrafia e Paleoecologia do Centro e Pesquisas da PETROBRAS (CENPES), entre 1994 e 2000. Trabalhou como geólogo sênior/consultor da Petróleo Brasileiro S/A (Petrobras), entre Janeiro de 1978 a Junho de 2011. Cientista Embaixador ("Vertrauenswissenschaftler") para o Brasil da Fundação Alexander von Humboldt (Março 2008 -Março 2014). Atualmente é Editor Chefe do periódico Cretaceous Research (Elsevier, Amsterdam) (Julho 2012 -); Privat-Dozent (Livre Docente)/ Associate Professor do Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls); Diretor da Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research (Outubro 1996 -), Vice-Presidente (1999 e 2013), Presidente (2000 e 2014); Diretor do "The Micropaleontology Project, Inc." (MicroPress/ NY; Fevereiro 2008 -October 2014). Tem como principal linha de pesquisa a Paleontologia Estratigráfica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: estudos estratigráficos de alta resolução, filogenia, paleoecologia e paleoceanografia de foraminíferos do Cretáceo e do limite Cretáceo-Paleógeno; dinâmica de ecossistemas, padrões de extinção e coevolução; foraminíferos do Quaternário, ecologia e paleoclimatologia.