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Professor Nevio Pugliese is Full Professor on Paleontology at the
University of Trieste since November 2000. He has been a Guest
professor in the University of Vienna, where he held courses in
1999 on systematics and ecology on Cenozoic and Pleistocene
ostracods, which is a class of small crustaceans, typically around
one mm in size with some 50,000 extinct and extant species.
His research expertise includes:
Systematics and ecology of marine, brackish and fresh-water
micro-faunas in the Mediterranean area and Indo-Pacific regions,
applying the results in Plio-Quaternary investigations.
A second area of his research is applications of the paleontology in
the
geoarchaeological
research;
and
systematics,
ecology,
palaeoecology and biostratigraphy of microfaunas in Antarctic and
periantarctic areas.
Finally, what is most interesting from my own point of view is that
since these crustaceans, the ostracods shown in the image
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These organisms have a well-documented fossil record from the
Cambrian to the present day. Professor Pugliese is also concerned
with
our
own
region,
regarding
systematics,
ecology,
palaeoecology, biostratigraphy and palaeogeography in the timespan Cretaceous-Eocene in our own Carso.
He is the author of more than 130 publications.