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LUCA GIUSBERTI
Position
Professore Associato
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Address
VIA G. GRADENIGO, 6 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498279183
Luca Giusberti graduated from high school with Classical Lyceum diploma, scoring 60/60. He earned a degree in Geological Sciences in 1997 from the University of Padua (110/110 cum laude). He completed his military service between 1997 and 1998. Subsequently, he pursued a period of international education with a post-graduate specialization scholarship (University of Padua and "A. Gini" Foundation) in Madrid and Budapest between 1998 and 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences in 2003. In the same year, he won a post-doctoral research scholarship. From May 2004 to October 2006, he received a research collaboration grant. From 2006 to 2018, he was a researcher at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua. Since 2018, he has been an associate professor at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua.
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Publications
2024-2025
-Mongiovì, F., Walter, J. D., Bizzarini, F., Cobianchi, M., Giusberti, L., Martire, L., ... & Delfino, M. (in press). First record of Metriorhynchidae (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Italy: high-resolution biostratigraphy, morphological description and comparative pelagic taphonomy. Historical Biology, 1-11.
-Calzoni, P., Giusberti, L., & Carnevale, G. (2025). The Ypresian fishes of the Solteri Lagerstätte (Trento, Northern Italy): a glimpse into the early Eocene Tethyan mesopelagic assemblages. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 131(2), 457-514.
-Amadori, M., Japundžić, S., Amalfitano, J., Giusberti, L., Fornaciari, E., Jambura, P. L., & Kriwet, J. (2025). New insights on the shell-crusher shark Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) based on the first known articulated dentition from the Upper Cretaceous of Croatia. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144(1), 2.
-Aguado, R., Baudin, F., Coccioni, R., Martinez, M., Rawson, P. F., Weissert, H., ... & Tavera, J. M. (2024). The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Barremian Stage at Río Argos (Caravaca, SE Spain). Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 47(2), 335-379.
-Benedetti, A., Papazzoni, C. A., Bosellini, F., Giusberti, L., & Fornaciari, E. (2024). High-diversity larger foraminiferal assemblages calibrated with calcareous nannoplankton biozones in the aftermath of EECO (Collio, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy). Palaeoworld, 33(2), 492-503.
-Garassino, A., Pasini, G., Giusberti, L., & Calzoni, P. (2024). A new decapod crustacean assemblage from the lower Eocene of Solteri (Trentino-Alto Adige region, northern Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 63(3), 275-287.
-Martinez-Soares, P., Roux, M., Giusberti, L., Gatto, R., Eléaume, M., & Améziane, N. (2024). New Eocene species of the crinoid genera Holopus and Cyathidium (Cyrtocrinida: Holopodidae) from north-eastern Italy. Zootaxa, 5541(4), 401-437.
-Mironenko, A., Giusberti, L., Serafini, G., Zorzin, R., & Bannikov, A. F. (2024). The first Cenozoic octopod: a lower Eocene record from Bolca, northeastern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 130(3), 603-612.
-Nobile, F., Collareta, A., Perenzin, V., Fornaciari, E., Giusberti, L., & Bianucci, G. (2024). Dawn of the Delphinidans: New Remains of Kentriodon from the Lower Miocene of Italy Shed Light on the Early Radiation of the Most Diverse Extant Cetacean Clade. Biology, 13(2), 114.
-Roux, M., Martinez-Soares, P., Fornaciari, E., Gatto, R., Papazzoni, C. A., & Giusberti, L. (2024). Eocene stalked crinoids in the genus Isselicrinus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Isocrinida) from northeastern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 130(1).
-Serafini, G., Gordon, C. M., Amalfitano, J., Wings, O., Esteban, N., Stokes, H., & Giusberti, L. (2024). First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues. Plos one, 19(5), e0302889.
-Serafini, G., Danise, S., Maxwell, E., Martire, L., Amalfitano, J., Miriam, C., ... & Giusberti, L. (2024). Of his bones are crinoid made: taphonomy and deadfall ecology of marine reptiles from a pelagic setting (Middle-Upper Jurassic of Northeastern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 130(1), 97-128.
Research Area
Scientific disciplinary sector GEO/01 (old classification), currently GEOS-02/AMain research interests:1. Taxonomy and paleoecology of benthic foraminifera from the Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene in critical intervals;2. Climatic variability of the Lower Paleogene in the pelagic sequences of northeastern Italy;3. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Fossil-Lagerstätten from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of northeastern Italy.
Thesis proposals
**Bachelor Theses**
* Sampling and preliminary study of pelagic sections from the Paleogene of Veneto.
* Organization and cataloging of fossil collections acquired by the section of Geology and Paleontology of the MNU, University of Padua and other museums in northeastern Italy.
**Master's Theses**
* Study of the response of benthic and planktonic foraminifera to climatic perturbations in the Paleogene.
* Master's thesis on museum-related topics (to be agreed upon).
* Taphonomic study of osteological remains of marine vertebrates from the Turonian of the Lessini Veronese (in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).
* Study of a three-dimensionally preserved Sparidae fish from the Lower Miocene of Veneto (in collaboration with the University of Turin)
* Study of an exceptionally large batoid dental plate from the Eocene of Veneto (in collaboration with the University of Turin)
Other paleontological thesis topics (e.g., paleontology of invertebrates and vertebrates) may be arranged between the professor and the student.
