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9 De Julio De 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE Alberto Luis CIONE 9 de julio de 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE Alberto Luis CIONE 01 – Datos y Antecedentes personales Fecha de nacimiento: 21-II-1948 Localidad: Lomas de Zamora, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNI: 7.791.095 Cuil: 20-07791095-7 Dirección laboral: Departamento Científico Paleontología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (FCNM), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), 1900 La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Correo electrónico: [email protected] TE laboral: (54) 221 4259638-4257744-4259161 Cargos y ocupaciones actuales: • Investigador Principal del CONICET. • Profesor Titular Ordinario Dedicación Exclusiva a cargo de Fundamentos de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Obtenido por concurso. Dicta clases en las materias Paleozoología, Paleontología de Vertebrados, Paleontología II, además de Fundamentos de Paleontología. Toma exámenes parciales en Paleozoología, Paleontología de Vertebrados y Fundamentos de Paleontología. Integra las mesas examinadoras de finales de Fundamentos de Paleontología, Paleoecología, Paleontología II, Paleozoología, Paleontología de Vertebrados y Lógica y Metodología de la Ciencia. • Categoría Docente-Investigador del Programa de Incentivos: I • Director del proyecto financiado por el Programa de Incentivos Ictiofauna marina y continental de América del Sur austral: origen y evolución (N676): 010112-311215. • Integrante del proyecto N645 financiado por el Programa de Incentivos de la UNLP. • Miembro responsable del proyecto PICT 2011 N° 1883. Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. • Miembro del Grupo Responsable del proyecto: Tell el-Ghaba en la época Saíta (Siglos VII-VI a.c.): Significación histórica, organización e intercambios en un asentamiento de la Frontera Oriental de Egipto. Directora: Silvia Lupo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. • Socio honorario de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. • Miembro del Consejo Consultivo Departamental de la FCNyM, UNLP. • Miembro de la Comisión de Publicaciones y Biblioteca de la FCNyM, UNLP. • Miembro suplente de la Comisión de Postgrado de la FCNyM, UNLP. • Publicaciones citadas en Scopus: 54 • Indice ResearchGate: 31.81. Puntos de impacto: 97.42 02 - Estudios realizados Secundarios Bachiller. Colegio Euskal Echea, Llavallol, Provincia de Buenos Aires. 1 Universitarios. Grado 1975. Licenciatura en Paleontología. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 25/08/1975. 2# año de la Licenciatura en Filosofía. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Universitarios. Post-grado 1988. Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 10/05/1988, Folio 287 del Registro 125. Otros 1998. First Certificate in English. University of Cambridge. 03. Tesis Título: Los peces de las formaciones marinas del Cenozoico de Patagonia. 536 pp., 30 lám. Realizado en Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Aprobada el 10 de mayo de 1988. Director: Dr. Rosendo Pascual Calificación: Sobresaliente (10) con recomendación para su publicación. 04 - Becas y subsidios para viajes (no se incluyen los subsidios de campaña) 1. Beca de Iniciación en la Investigación Científica. CONICET. 1-IV-76 / 30-III-78. 2. Beca de Perfeccionamiento en la Investigación Científica. CONICET. 1-IV-78 / 190XI-80. 3. Estados Unidos. Junio y Julio de 1989. Gastos de viaje y estadía para realizar una presentación en un Simposio sobre Ictiofauna Neotropical en el Annual Meeting de la American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists y visitar la California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA. Financiado por un subsidio de la National Science Foundation. 4. Estados Unidos. Junio y Julio de 1989. Gastos de estadía para consulta de colecciones en el Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles). Financiado por el NHMLAC. 5. Río Negro. Abril de 1990. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de dos concursos para nombrar profesores para las Cátedras de Biología General y Genética y Evolución en el Centro Regional Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Financiado por la Universidad Nacional del Comahue. 6. Tucumán. Abril de 1990. Gastos de viaje para asistir al V Congreso de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Financiado por la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP. 7. Europa y Estados Unidos. Septiembre, Octubre y Noviembre de 1990. Gastos de viaje y estadía para consulta de colecciones y realización de trabajos conjuntos con colegas extranjeros a la Duke University, Estados Unidos y al British 2 Museum (Natural History), Londres y al Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Financiado por la Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires y el Curry Fund, Geologists' Association, Londres. 8. Alemania. Noviembre de 1991. Gastos de viaje y estadía para hacer una presentación en la International Conference Monument Grube Messel - Perspectives and Relationships y para consultar colecciones en el Museo de Darmstadt y en el Senckenberg Museum de Frankfurt, Alemania. Financiado por el Hessisches Museum de Darmstadt. 9. Chile. Diciembre de 1992. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de una tesis de Magister en Ciencias en la ciudad de Concepción, Chile. Financiado por la Universidad de Concepción. 10. Brasil. Febrero de 1996. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de una tesis de doctorado en el Curso de Pósgraduação, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Financiado por la Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. 11. Uruguay. Diciembre de 1996. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de una tesis de doctorado del PEDECIBA, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo. Financiado por la Universidad de la República. 12. Alemania. Julio de 1997. Gastos de viaje y estadía para hacer dos presentaciones en el Second International Meeting Mesozoic fishes: Systematics and the fossil record. Buckow, Alemania. Financiado por el Naturkunde Museum, Berlín. 13. Uruguay. Noviembre de 1997. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de un concurso para profesor adjunto en la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo. Financiado por la Universidad de la República. 14. Uruguay. Marzo de 1998. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de un concurso para profesor adjunto en la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo. Financiado por la Universidad de la República. 15. Uruguay. Marzo de 1999. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de un concurso para profesor agregado en la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo. Financiado por la Universidad de la República. 16. Brasil. Abril de 2000. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de una tesis de mestrado en el Curso de Pós- graduação, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Financiado por la Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. 17. Uruguay. Marzo de 2006. Gastos de viaje y estadía para actuar como jurado de un concurso para profesor agregado en la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo. Financiado por la Universidad de la República. 05 - Cursos de perfeccionamiento seguidos 1.- Curso sobre actualización: "Actividad biológica y procesos" dictado por el Dr. R. Andreis. 14/18-V-84. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "B. Rivadavia". APA. 3 2.- Curso "Taxonomía numérica" dictado por el Dr. J. Crisci. 21/26-X-84. VI Jornadas Argentinas de Zoología. 5 horas. 3.- Cursos "Introducción a la Sistemática Filogenética" por R. Reis y S.L. Bonatto y "Análisis fenético y cladístico de caracteres taxonómicos" por J. Crisci, M.F.López Armengol y J. Prado en el Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay. 18/22-III-85. 4.- Se cursó como oyente la materia Macroevolución, dictada por O. Reig en la FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires durante el segundo cuatrimestre de 1988. 5.- Teoría sistemática. Dictado por N. Papavero. FCNM, U.N. La Plata. Diciembre de 1989. 50 horas. 6.- Intensión, extensión y taxonomía biológica. Dictado por N. Papavero. FCNM, U.N. La Plata. Diciembre de 1991. 40 horas. 7.- Global Patterns of Avian Biogeography during the Cenozoic. Prehistoric Man-caused Extinctions. Patterns of Island Biogeography. Dictado por Storrs L. Olson, Smithsonian Institution. FCNM, U.N. La Plata. 4 a 6 de marzo de 1992. 8.- Evolución morfológica y funcional de los vertebrados. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". 50 horas. 19 al 30 de mayo de 2003. 06 - Distinciones - Honores - Premios - Presentaciones especiales 1978.- Premio Florentino Ameghino. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. Trabajo: CIONE, A.L. Aportes paleoictiológicos al conocimiento de la evolución de las paleotemperaturas en el área austral de América del Sur durante el Cenozoico. Aspectos zoogeográficos y ecológicos conexos. Ameghiniana 15: 183- 208. 1990-1991. Presidente de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. 1997. Representante del Museo de La Plata ante la Comisión del Honorable Congreso Nacional encargada del tratamiento de las leyes de patrimonio arqueológico y paleontológico. 1995-1997. Subjefe del Claustro de Paleontología, FCNM, UNLP. 1998-2000. Jefe del Claustro de Profesores de Paleontología y Jefe del Consejo Consultivo Departamental, FCNM, UNLP. Socio honorario de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 1999. Una nueva especie
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