People

Current Lab Members

Principal Investigator

ALBERTO PEREZ-HUERTA

EDUCATION

2004 - Ph.D. in Geology, University of Oregon, USA

2000 - B.Sc. in Geology, University of Oviedo, Spain

WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2022 - present - Program Officer (IPA), Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP) Program, U.S. National Science Foundation

2021 - present - Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, USA

2009 - present - Curator of Palentology, Alabama Museum of Natural History

2015 - 2021 - Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, USA

2009 - 2015 - Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, USA

2006 - 2009 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

2005 - Research Staff, Palaeontological Research Centre, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Biomineralization, Biogeochemistry, Mineralogy/Crystallography, Microscopy and Invertebrate Paleontology

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hc4GUCtm6syxFmvGxwd5XLTQnR9EuOIP/view?usp=drive_link

Note: Currently not accepting new graduate students for the 2023-204 academic cycle.

Research Associate


DR. ESHITA SAMAJPATI

EDUCATION

2020 - Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, Florida International University, USA

2014 - M.Sc. in Applied Geology, II T Bombay, India

2012 - B.Sc. in Earth Sciences, Presidency College, India

RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Microscopy

Affiliated Researcher 

DR. SANDI SMART - NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Paleoceanography, Isotope geochemistry

FORMER LAB MEMBERS AND ALUMNI