TEAM

Viktória Baranyi PhD, PI

Viktória Baranyi is a palynologist and senior scinetific associate at the Croatian Geological Survey and the primary investigator of the DEEPTREE project. She has over 15 year experience in paloepalynology,  vegetation, and paleocliamte reconstruction. Her research focuses on the interactions between climate  and terrestrial ecosystems during global warming periods and major global events such as the Early Jurassic Jenkyns Event or the Carnian Pluvial Episode. 

dr. sc. Karmen Fio Firi

Karmen Fio Firi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb ,Faculty of Science, Department of Geology. She teaches various paleontological courses. Her research interests include the End Permian mass extinction event and recovery of biota during the Early Triassic by using various biotic and abiotic proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. 

dr. sc. Duje Smirčić

Duje Smirčić is an Assistant Professor and sedimentologist at the Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb. His research focuses on sedimentology, stratigraphy, facies analysis, and the reconstruction of depositional environments, with particular expertise in the Triassic successions of the Dinarides.  He has also gained extensive experience in the genesis, stratigraphic correlation of Middle Triassic volcaniclastic rocks in the broader Dinaridic belt. 

dr. sc. Ivor Perković

Ivor Perković is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb.  His research expertise includes clay mineralogy, bauxites geochemistry, palaeosols, and X-ray powder diffraction with a deep interest for terrestrial phases in carbonate terrains, palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions with particular emphasis on the role of clay mineralogy, bauxites, and palaeosols. 

Professor Marco Franceschi

Marco Franceschi is Associate Professor in Sedimentary Geology at the University of Trieste. His research focuses on the sedimentary record of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras as an archive of past climatic and environmental changes with specific emphasis on carbonate rocks and the abiotic and biological mechanisms that govern the production and accumulation of carbonate sediments.

Professor Xin Jin

Xin Jin is a Professor at Chengdu University of Technology, China, specializing in sedimentary geochemitry and Earth system evolution. His research focuses on carbonate systems, paleoenvironmental changes, and major geological events. He studies the interactions between climate, ecosystems, and sedimentary processes using stratigraphy, geochemistry, and geochronology. 

Emőke Tóth PhD

Emőke Tóth is a micropaleontologist, working as Assistant Professor of Department of Palaeontology at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. Her interests in micropaleontology, paleoecology and biostratigraphy are broad. Her research focuses on the diversity changes of ostracods and foraminifers during the Mesozoic, especially in the Triassic. She has concentrated on the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Triassic Tethys based on foraminifer and ostracod paleoecology.

Viktor Karádi PhD

Viktor Karádi is an assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. His teaching activity includes systematic paleontology, microfacies analysis and field geology. He finished his PhD studies in 2019 on Upper Triassic conodont taxonomy and biostratigraphy. Since then his research focuses on the refinement of conodont zonation and the timing of events in the geodynamic evolution of the Western Tethys Realm. He is always open to broadening his view.

dr. sc. Jelena Španiček

Jelena Španiček is a geologist and micropaleontologist at the Croatian Geological Survey, specializing in Mesozoic-Paleogene biostratigraphy, and carbonate sedimentology. Her research focuses on benthic foraminifera and their  application in understanding the evolution of carbonate platforms and foreland basins, mainly in the Adriatic–Dinaric region. Her work combines field-based geological investigations with detailed microfacies, biostratigraphic, and geochemical analyses to reconstruct environmental changes through time. She has participated in national and international research projects and collaborations involving institutions in Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia, including research on the K/Pg transition, Lower Cretaceous carbonate successions, Paleogene carbonate ramps, and Istrian Flysch. 

Johannes A. Weitz

PhD student in palynology/geochemistry