Sergio Rodríguez García

Sergio Rodríguez (Researcher ID H-7007-2015), Orcid 0000-0002-5916-5649) is teaching in the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) since 1981 (full professor since 1986). He got the Licenciature in Geological Sciences in 1977 with extraordinary award. He defended his Ph. D. in 1981 with the qualification “Sobresaliente cum laude”. He spent the years 1984/85 in Tübingen with a Humboldt Research award. His research has been focussed in the Upper Palaeozoic corals and reefs from Spain, Morocco, China, Canada, United States, etc., and has been leader of numerous research projects. Author of more than 200 publications and supervisor of more than 25 Graduate and Ph. D. Thesis. Research Award “Paleonturología” to the best international article in Paleontology of the year 2013. He was director of the department of Paleontology of the UCM from 2005 to 2012 and director of GEODESPAL from 2017 to 2021. He is an active member of several scientific societies, being president of the International Association for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera (1995-1998), the Spanish Paleontological Society (2009-2012) and the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History (2022-2024).