Alessandro Chiarenza
I am a palaeontologist studying dinosaur palaeobiology, macroecology, and extinction. To investigate these topics, I use phylogenetic, biogeographic, statistical, and Earth System Modelling tools.
Currently, my main research topics include:
1) the relationship between physical agents shaping the fossil record and disentangling their role in order to detect genuine biodiversity signals in deep time;
2) the interplay between changing climate, geography, and biodiversity in controlling macroevolution and macroecological patterns;
3) the physical drivers behind evolutionary adaptations and extinction.
For my PhD I focused on Late Cretaceous dinosaur macroecology and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. I have also studied Mesozoic reptiles from the Tethyan margin, crocodylomorph palaeodiversity, and theropod dinosaurs.
I am currently mainly working on the effect of climatic and geographic changes on dinosaur macroevolution throughout the Mesozoic.
In March 2021 I joined Dr Sara Varela as an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Vigo, Spain, to investigate deep-time diversification dynamics.
