Angelica Feurdean

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum & LOEWE Biodiversity
and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main,
Germany

Angelica FEURDEAN is a senior researcher at Goethe University and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt am Main in Germany. She received a PhD in Quaternary Geology from Stockholm University in 2004 and was subsequently awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research uses sedimentary archives to reconstruct past vegetation response to recurrent climate fluctuations and disturbance by fire and human impact in various ecosystems in Central and Eastern Europe, with increasing focus on boreal and arctic systems. Recent work combines fossil data with plant functional traits and statistically ecological modeling to understand the role of plant traits in ecosystem resilience to disturbance by fire.

Slobodan Marković

University of Novi Sad,
Serbia

Slobodan Marković is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia where he is a leader of the Loess research group.
His main research interest includes the Quaternary stratigraphy, as well as reconstruction of climatic and environmental dynamics and relation
between paleo and recent climate. Slobodan’s additional research interests are related to geo-heritage studies and history of Earth sciences.

He is a global highly cited researcher (2020 to 2021), a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a past president of the Loess
focus group of International Union for Quaternary research (2011-2019), a member of the Commission on Stratigraphy and chronology of International
Union for Quaternary research, a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zoltán KERN

Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest,
Hungary

Zoltán KERN works as a research fellow at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. The focus of his research interest is environmental and climate change in the Quaternary. He has research experience related to dendroclimatology, dendrochemistry, application of environmental isotopes, cave ice, time series analysis, and geomorphology.

Simon M. HUTCHINSON

School of Science, Engineering and Environment (SEE), University of Salford,
UK

Simon M. HUTCHINSON works at the School of Science, Engineering and Environment (SEE), University of Salford, UK. Paleoenvironmental science necessitates an interdisciplinary approach to research. He has worked with a range of talented specialists during his career across Europe, and in China and Russia. As a postgraduate student, his introduction to sediment-based environmental reconstruction began with lake sediment studies focused on the post-industrial. However, subsequently ‘playing with mud’ has led to research in not only lacustrine, but also peat, floodplain, saltmarshes and estuarine sediments as well as bat guano; at a decadal to whole Holocene timeframe. Predominantly he focusses on abiotic proxies of environmental change and human impacts (e.g. environmental magnetism and geochemistry), but, through collaboration, has also been introduced to wider paleo work in biotic parameters. Moreover, he is currently looking at the aDNA of deposits at the cutting edge of paleoenvironmental research, and trying to use paleoenvironmental tools to tackle applied environmental management questions.

Mariana Filipova-Marinova

Department of Natural History, Varna Regional Museum of History,
Bulgaria

Professor Mariana Filipova-Marinova used to work in the Natural History Museum of Varna (Bulgaria) since 1967, immediately after her graduation in Botany from Sofia University, Bulgaria. Her research is in the field of Quaternary Palaeoecology, Palynostratigraphy, Palaegeography and Palaeoceanography, Botany, Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Bulgarian Black Sea area. She works on spore-pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs analyses of marine and lacustrine sediments since 1970. In 1985, Mariana Filipova defended her PhD thesis on Palaeoecology of the Black Sea coastal lake Shabla-Ezeretz. In 2007, she defended her DrSciBiol thesis on Quaternary Palynostratigraphy of the Bulgarian Black Sea zone. Mariana Filipova was also Associated Professor of Botany in Varna Technical University (1991-2000) and Professor of Pharmaceutical Botany in Varna Medical University (2009-2015). She was Head of the Natural History Museum in Varna from 2007 to 2016. She is author and co-author of 109 full-length research papers, including 56 papers with Impact Factor or Rank, and participated in more than 100 symposia all over the World, including 3 INQUA Congresses: Moscow (1982), Reno (2003) and Cairns (2007, key-note speaker). Her H-index is 16. Mariana Filipova is author and co-author of more than 150 ecological reports since 1996 as an expert of Biodiversity with a License from the Ministry of Environment and Waters of Bulgaria. She collaborates with more than 60 researchers on more than 20 research projects, including 2 projects, financed by the International Geological Correlation Program of UNESCO: Project 158 B Palaeohydrological changes in the temperate zone in the last 15000 years (In collaboration with Prof. Bjorn Berglund, Department of Quaternary Geology, University of Lund, Sweden (1980 – 1990) and Project 521 Black Sea-Mediterranean corridor during the last 30 ky: Sea level change and human adaptation (In collaboration with Prof. Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Avalon Institute of Applied Science, Canada (2005 – 2009). She organised 2 international conferences in Varna at 2005 and 2008 and was elected as Member of the Executive Board of the European pollen monitoring program in 2005. Prof. Mariana Filipova is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Oceanology – Varna, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2011.

Department of Biophysics and Biometrics at Rio de Janeiro State University
Brazil

Physicist with Master in Space Geophysics and PHD in Nuclear Biosciences. Actually Professor at the Department of Biophysics and Biometrics at Rio de Janeiro State University-Brazil.
Work in multidisciplinary Geosciences thematics evolving the links between the Tropics and the Polar Regions. Has experience in the area of Paleoclimatology in the Quaternary.
Have participated in 25 scientific missions to Antarctica during 35 years of work at the Brazilian Antarctic Program.
Member of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change and Antarctic Research Committee. Currently is an Expert of United Nation – IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
and FAO on Global Climate Change Programs.