PABLO
SUÁREZ GONZÁLEZ

I studied undergraduate degrees in Geology (2008) and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (2014), at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). There, I studied also my master’s degree in Environmental Geology and Geological Resources (2009), specializing in Sedimentary Basins and Energy Resources. Between 2010 and 2015 I conducted my PhD in the Stratigraphy Department of the UCM, supervised by Maribel Benito and Ramón Mas, studying a Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic unit from the Cameros Basin, with a significant tectonic control and a complex and controversial sedimentology, due to the coastal nature of the deposits, including both continental and marine features. During my PhD I visited some months the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, USA), collaborating with Robert Riding, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-en-Provence, France), to work with Gilbert Camoin. A remarkable feature of the deposits I studied for my PhD is their unusual abundance and diversity of microbialites, which made me eager to understand better the relationships between microbial communities and sedimentary processes. Thanks to a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation (2016-2018) I was able to study those relationships in modern, Triassic and Precambrian microbialites, working in the research group of Joachim Reitner, at the Geobiology Department of the University of Göttingen (Germany). I have been Assistant Professor at the Geology Department of the Rey Juan Carlos University (2018-2020) and at the Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Paleontology Department of the UCM, where now I am Associate (tenured) Professor and I teach Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basin Analysis, continuing my research on tectonics-sedimentation relationships, and on sedimentary deposits and processes, with special emphasis on the sedimentology of microbialites from different environments throughout the stratigraphic record.