Emanuela Di Martino

Pubblicazioni (peer-review)

1. Di Martino E., Gordon D.P., Rosso A., Gambino S. & Ramsfjell M.H. (2026) Microporella uncovered: past and present diversity of a successfull cheilostome bryozoan in Aotearoa New Zealand, with new species descriptions and distribution maps. Zootaxa, 5887, 1–96. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5887.1.1
2. Di Martino E., Chiu W.-T.R., Fujita K., Kitamura A., Rosso A., Taylor P.D. & Yasuhara M. (2026) A new piece in the puzzle: the palaeoecological significance of bryozoans over 7000 years in Daidokutsu Cave (Okinawa, Japan). Journal of Quaternary Science, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70127
3. Sonoda G.G., Bosch M., Di Martino E., Sanchez-Vidal A. & Figuerola B. (2026) Substrate and seasonality shape invertebrate assemblages fouling marine plastics: implications for dispersal potential. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 101524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2026.101524
4. Sanfilippo R., Cipriani M., Di Martino E., Donato G., Maruca G., Minniti G., Rosso A. & Guido A. (2026) Serpulid build-up from Miocene last tropical ecosystems in SE Sicily. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 691, 113725. https://doi.org./10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113725
5. Pistevos J.C.A. et al. (2026) Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species (III). Bioinvasion Records, 15.
6. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Donato G., Figuerola B., Gerovasileiou V., Siddiolo C., Sinagra A., Sanfilippo R. & Sciuto F. (2025) Unlocking Mediterranean bryozoan diversity: seven new species unveiled after fixing a neotype for Fenestrulina malusii (Audouin & Savigny, 1826) (Cheilostomatida, Fenestrulinidae). Zookeys, 1254, 1–74. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1254.157989
7. Saulsbury J., Piwoni-Piorewicz A., Kuklinski P., Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2025) Evolution of skeletal mineralogy in cheilostome bryozoans from calcite to aragonite seas. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G53795.1
8. Taylor P.D., Di Martino E.,  Rosso A., Chiu R.W.T., Fujita K., Kitamura A. & Yasuhara M. (2025) Subfossil cyclostome bryozoans from Daidokutsu submarine cave, Okinawa, Japan. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28, a29. https://doi.org/10.26879/1546
9. Di Martino E., Rosso A., Taylor P.D., Chiu R.W.T., Fujita K., Kitamura A. & Yasuhara M. (2025) Unveiling the cheilostome bryozoan fauna of Daidokutsu submarine cave (Okinawa, Japan) over the last 7,000 years. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28, a7. https://doi.org/10.26879/1433
10. Rosso A., Di Martino E. & Siddiolo C. (2025) Going west: the spread of non-native Microporella (Bryozoa) species on drift plastic debris. Mediterranean Marine Science, 26, 71–89. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.38996
11. Liow L.H., Porto A. & Di Martino E. (2024) Trait-fitness associations via fecundity and competition in a two-million-year-long fossil record. The American Naturalist, 204. https://doi.org/10.1086/731332
12. Lürig M.D., Di Martino E. & Porto A. (2024) BioEncoder: a metric learning toolkit for comparative organismal biology. Ecology Letters, 27, e14495. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14495
13. Chowdhury I.A., Di Martino E., Lee H., Windecker C.C. & Craig S. (2024) Diversity and distribution of intertidal Microporella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida) From California. European Journal of Taxonomy, 932, 34–68. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2509
14. Reitan T., Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2024) Estimating relative species abundance using fossil data identified to different taxonomic levels. Ecography, 2024(1), e06866. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06866
15. Di Martino E. (2023) Scanning electron microscopy study of Lars Silén’s cheilostome bryozoan type specimens in the historical collections of natural history museums in Sweden. Zootaxa. 5379, 1–106. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5379.1.1
16. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2023) Capturing the moment: a snapshot of the early 2023 Mediterranean bryozoan diversity. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24, 426–445. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34329
17. Kannan G., Mghili B., Di Martino E., Sanchez-Vidal A. & Figuerola, B. (2023) Increasing risk of invasions by organisms on marine debris in the southeast coast of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 195, 115469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115469
18. Di Martino E., Berning B., Gordon D.P., Kukliński P., Liow, L.H., Ramsfjell M., Ribeiro H.L., Smith A.M., Taylor P.D., Voje K.L., Waeschenbach A. & Porto A. (2023) DeepBryo: a web-app for AI-assisted morphometric characterization of cheilostome bryozoans. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10563
19. Yasuhara M., Huang H.-H.M., Reuter M., Tian S.Y., Cybulski J.D., O’Dea A., Mamo B.L., Cotton L.J., Di Martino E., Feng R., Tabor C.R., Reygondeau G., Zhao Q., Warne M.T., Aye K.K.T., Zhang J., Chao A., Wei C.-L., Condamine F.L., Kocsis A.T., Kiessling W., Costello M.J., Tittensor D.P., Chaudhary C., Rillo M.C., Doi H., Dong Y., Cronin T.M., Saupe E.E., Lotze H.K., Johnson K.G., Renema W., Pandolfi J.M., Harzhauser M., Jackson J.B.C., Hong Y. (2022) Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 60, 243–300. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003288602-5
20. Di Martino E., Rosso A. & Mandic O. (2022) Systematic revision and scanning electron microscopic study of some critical cheilostome bryozoan species of Arthur Waters from the Pleistocene of Brucoli (Siracusa, Sicily). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, pp. i-xx. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2022.06
21. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2022) Changing allometric relationships among fossil and Recent populations in two colonial species. Evolution, 76(10): 2424–2435.
22. Ramsfjell M.H., Taylor, P.D. & Di Martino E. (2022) New Early Miocene species of the cheilostome bryozoan Microporella from the South Island of New Zealand. Alcheringa, 46(2): 208–217.
23. Di Martino E. (2022) Revision of the type species of some cheilostome bryozoan genera in the collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Zootaxa, 5125(2), 157–181. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5125.2.4
24. Orr R.J.S., Di Martino E.,[...] & Liow, L.H. (2022) Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8(3): 7452. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm7452
25. Subías-Baratau A., Sanchez-Vidal A., Di Martino E. & Figuerola B. (2022) Marine biofouling organisms on beached, buoyant and benthic plastic debris in the Catalan Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 175, 113405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113405
26. Di Martino E. & Rosso A. (2021) Seek and ye shall find: New species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean. Zookeys, 1053, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1053.65324
27. Floréz P., Di Martino E., Ramalho L.V. (2021) Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part II: "Ascophora" Cheilostomatida. Journal of Paleontology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.94
28. Lidgard S., Di Martino E., Zágoršek, K. & Liow L.H. (2021) When fossil clades 'compete': local dominance, global diversification dynamics  and causation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 20211632. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1632
29. Orr R.J.S., Di Martino E., Gordon D.P., Ramsfjell M.H., Mello H.L., Smith A.M. & Liow L.H. (2021) A broadly resolved molecular phylogeny  of New Zealand cheilostome bryozoans as a framework for hypotheses of morphological evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161, 107172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107172
30. Floréz P., Di Martino E., Ramalho L.V. (2021) Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part I: Cyclostomata, Anasca and Cribrilinoidea Cheilostomata. Journal of Paleontology, 95, 694–719. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.5
31. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2021) Trait-fitness association do not predict within-species phenotypic evolution over 2 million years. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 20202047. http://doi.org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1098/rspb.2020.2047
32. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2021) Larger offspring associated with lower temperatures across species of Microporella, a widespread colonial invertebrate. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 662: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13656
33. Orr R.J.S., Sannum M.M., Boessenkool S., Di Martino E., Gordon D.P., Mello H., Obst M., Ramsfjell M.H., Smith A.M. & Liow L.H. (2021) A molecular phylogeny of historical and contemporary specimens of an under-studied micro-invertebrate group. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 309–320. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7042
34. Rosso A., Gerovasileiou V. & Di Martino E. (2020) Really onychocellids? Revisions and new findings increase the astonishing bryozoan diversity of the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8, 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8110904
35. Rosso A., Di Martino E. & Ostrovsky A.N. (2020) Cribrilinid bryozoans from Pleistocene Mediterranean deep-waters, with the description of new species. Journal of Paleontology, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.93
36. Gordon D.P., Sutherland J.E., Perez B.A., Waeschenbach A., Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2020) The bryozoan genus Conopeum (Electridae) in New Zealand—with description of a new species and a discussion of the characters of invasive Conopeum seurati (Canu, 1928). Journal of Natural History, 54, 947–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1771452
37. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Gordon D.P. (2020) Erect bifoliate species of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata), fossil and modern. European Journal of Taxonomy. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.678
38. Di Martino E., Liow L.H., Perkins T., Portell R.W. & Taylor P.D. (2020) Sneaking up on enemies: alleviating inherent disadvantages in competitive outcomes in a nearly 3-million-year old palaeocommunity from Florida, USA. Lethaia. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12376
39. Rosso A., Di Martino E. & Gerovasileiou V. (2020) Revision of the genus Setosella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of new species from deep-waters and submarine caves of the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa, 4728, 401–442. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4728.4.1
40. Voje K.L., Di Martino E. & Porto A. (2019) Revisiting a landmark study-system: no evidence for a punctuated mode of evolution in Metrarabdotos. The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.1086/707664
41. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2019) Pseudidmonea Borg, 1944 (Cyclostomata: Pseudidmoneidae): description of two new species from the Miocene of New Zealand and phylogenetic relationships of the genus. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 52, 67–75.
42. Orr R.J.S., Haugen M.N., Berning B., Bock P., Cumming R.L., Florence W.K., Hirose M., Di Martino E., Ramsfjell M.H., Sannum M.M., Smith A.M., Vieira L.M., Waschenbach A. & Liow L.H. (2019) A genome-skimmed phylogeny of a widespread bryozoan family, Adeonidae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19: 235, 10 pp. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1563-4
43. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Fernando A.G.S., Kase T. & Yasuhara M. (2019) First bryozoan fauna from the middle Miocene of Central Java, Indonesia. Alcheringa, 43, 461–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2019.1590639
44. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Portell R.W. (2019) Anomia-associated bryozoans from the upper Pliocene (Piacenzian) lower Tamiami Formation of Florida, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 22.1.11A 1–65. https://doi.org/10.26879/920
45. Liow L.H., Reitan T., Voje K.L., Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2019) Size, weapons, and armors as predictors of competitive outcomes in fossil and contemporary marine communities. Ecological Monographs, 89, e01354. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1354
46. Taylor P.D., Di Martino E. & Martha S.O. (2018) Colony growth strategies, dormancy and repair in some Late Cretaceous encrusting bryozoans: insights into the ecology of the Chalk seabed. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0358-8
47. Di Martino E., Martha S.O. & Taylor P.D. (2018) The Madagascan Maastrichtian bryozoans of Ferdinand Canu —Systematic revision and scanning electron microscopic study. Annales de Paléontologie, 104, 101–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2018.04.001
48. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2018) Early Pleistocene and Holocene bryozoans from Indonesia. Zootaxa, 4419, 1–70. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4419.1.1
49. Di Martino E., Jackson J.B.C., Taylor P.D. & Johnson K.G. (2018) Differences in extinction rates drove modern biogeographic patterns of tropical marine biodiversity. Science Advances, 4, eaaq1508. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1508
50. Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2018) Sonarina tamilensis n. gen., n. sp., an unusual cheilostome bryozoan from the Late Cretaceous of southern India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 288, 79–85. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0724
51. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2017) Some Miocene cheilostome bryozoan genera of Michel Vigneaux – systematic revision and first scanning electron microscopic study. Geodiversitas, 39, 783–796. https://doi.org/10.5252/g2017n4a7
52. Liow L.H., Di Martino E., Krzeminska M., Ramsfjell M., Rust S., Taylor P.D. & Voje K.L. (2017) Relative size predicts competitive outcome through 2 million years. Ecology letters, 20(8), 981–988. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12795
53. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Gordon D.P. & Liow L.H. (2017) New bryozoan species from the Pleistocene of the Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand. European Journal of Taxonomy, 345, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.345
54. Di Martino E., Greene S. & Taylor P.D. (2017) Discoradius, a new name for the genus Heteractis Gabb & Horn, 1862 (Cheilostomata, Bryozoa), junior homonym of Heteractis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851 (Cnidaria, Actiniaria). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(5), 445. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1300197
55. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Cotton L.J. & Pearson P.N. (2017) First bryozoan fauna from the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Tanzania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(3), 225–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1284163
56. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Portell R.W. (2017) Bryozoans from the lower Miocene Chipola Formation, Calhoun County, Florida, USA. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 53(4), 97–200.
57. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Pica D., Galanti L., Cerrano C. & Novosel M. (2016) Non-indigenous bryozoan species from natural and artificial substrata of Mediterranean submarine caves. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1345–1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0602-2
58. Liow L.H., Di Martino E., Voje K.L., Rust S. & Taylor P.D. (2016) Interspecific interactions through 2 million years: are competitive outcomes predictable? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20160981. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0981
59. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2016) Bryozoan diversity in the Mediterranean Sea: an update. Mediterranean Marine Science, 17(2), 567–607. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1706
60. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Gordon D.P. & Liow L.H. (2016) On Powellithecidae fam. nov., a new Pliocene to Recent bryozoan family endemic to New Zealand, with the description of Powellitheca gen. nov. (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). European Journal of Taxonomy, 201, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.207
61. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Kudryavtsev A.B. & Schopf J.W. (2016) Calcitization of aragonitic bryozoans in Cenozoic tropical carbonates from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Facies, 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-016-0462-z
62. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2015) Myriapora sciutoi n. sp., a new fossil Atlanto-Mediterranean bryozoan species, and comments on allied taxa. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 121(3), 369–379.
63. Sciuto F., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R. & Di Martino E. (2015) Ostracods from mid-outer shelf bottoms of the Ciclopi Islands Marine Protected Area (Ionian Sea, Eastern Sicily). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 54(2), 131–146.
64. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Sanfilippo S., Sciuto F. & Liow L.H. (2015) Resurrection of an old forgotten name: the case of the Pliocene to Recent bryozoan Cleidochasmidra portisi (Neviani, 1895) from the Mediterranean. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 54(2), 91–102.
65. Di Martino E. & Rosso A. (2015) Revision of the bryozoan genus Gephyrotes Norman, 1903 (Cheilostomata, Cribrilinidae) with the description of two new taxa. Zootaxa, 3941, 261–283. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.7
66. Reich S., Di Martino E., Todd J.A., Wesselingh F.P. & Renema W. (2015) Indirect paleo-seagrass indicators (IPSIs): a review. Earth-Science Reviews, 143, 161–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.01.009
67. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2015) Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part II: Cheilostomata ‘Ascophora’. Scripta Geologica, 148, 1–142.
68. Santodomingo N., Novak V., Pretkovic V., Marshall N., Di Martino E., Lo Giudice Capelli E., Rösler A., Reich S., Braga J.C., Renema W. & Johnson K.J.  (2015) A diverse patch reef from turbid habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaios, 30(1), 128–149. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.047
69. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Johnson K.G. (2015) Bryozoan diversity in the Miocene of the Kutai Basin, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaios, 30(1), 109–115. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.107
70. Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2014) Why is the tropical Cenozoic fossil record so poor for bryozoans? Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94, 249–257.
71. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2014) A brief review of seagrass-associated bryozoans, Recent and fossil. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94, 79–94.
72. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2014) Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part I: Cyclostomata and Cheilostomata ‘Anasca’. Scripta Geologica, 146, 17–126.
73. Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Taddei Ruggiero E. & Di Martino E. (2013) Faunas and ecological groups of Serpuloidea, Bryozoa and Brachiopoda from submarine caves in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 52(3), 167–176.
74. Novak V., Santodomingo N., Rösler A., Di Martino E., Braga J.C., Taylor P.D., Johnson K.G., Renema W. (2013) Environmental reconstruction of a late Burdigalian (Miocene) patch reef in deltaic deposits (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374, 110–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.009
75. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2013) First bryozoan fauna from a tropical Cretaceous carbonate: Simsima Formation, United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Cretaceous Research, 43, 80–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2013.02.004
76. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Sanfilippo R. & Di Martino V. (2012) Bryozoan communities and thanatocoenoses from submarine caves in the Plemmirio Marine Protected Area (SE Sicily). In: Ernst A., Schäfer P. & Scholz J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 143, 251–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_17
77. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Pyrisinellidae, a new family of anascan cheilostome bryozoans. Zootaxa, 3534, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3534.1.1
78. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Systematics and life history of Antoniettella exigua, a new genus and species of cribrimorph bryozoan from the Miocene of East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 51(2), 99–108.
79. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Morphology and palaeobiogeography of Retelepralia, a distinctive cheilostome bryozoan new to the fossil record. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 263(1), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0211

Principali temi di ricerca

Paleobiodiversità: origine degli hotspot di biodiversità tropicale, dinamiche di diversificazione ed estinzione, processi e fattori responsabili; macroevoluzione: allometria ed evoluzione fenotipica e della storia di vita degli organismi in risposta ai cambiamenti climatici e alle interazioni biotiche alla scala dei tempi geologici; ricostruzioni paleoecologiche e paleoambientali con approccio multitaxon; tassonomia, sistematica e filogenesi dei briozoi marini dal Mesozoico a oggi.

PROGETTI DI RICERCA

Principal Investigator

2026–2028. GeoMorph-AI— Metodi di deep e metric learning per la segmentazione, la caratterizzazione morfometrica e la classificazione di campioni geo- e paleobiologici. SYR-AI, Supporting Young Researchers through Artificial Intelligence. Università degli Studi di Catania. 50.000 €.

2024–2026. MEDMIO— Dinamiche temporali degli hotspot di diversità marina: Il caso del Mediterraneo nel Miocene. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo 2020/2022 (C.d.A. del 29.04.2020) – Linea di Intervento 3 Starting Grant, Università degli Studi di Catania. 10.000 €.

2021–2025. SELECT — Fossil temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection and life history evolution. Young Research Talent Grant. Progetto n. 314499. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Norvegese (RCN). 7.500.000 NOK = c. 769.000 €.

2015–2018. Origin of high tropical diversity: a test using bryozoans. Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, Regno Unito. 128.000 £.

2010–2013. Cenozoic history of bryozoan diversity in the Indo-West Pacific. Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship, Initial Training Network “Throughflow”, Regno Unito. 96.000 £.

Partner

2026–2028. RECOMED— The vulnerability and resilience of coralligenous assemblages in changing Mediterranean ecosystems. Programma Esecutivo di cooperazione scientifica e tecnologica Italia-Turchia, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (96.000 €) (PI R. Sanfilippo, Università degli Studi di Catania).

2023–2027. NORDIGBRYO: Digitizing bryozoans: a largely undocumented phylum in Norway. Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken). 3.500.000 NOK = c. 300.000 € (PI L.H. Liow, Università di Oslo, Norvegia).

2024–2026. CONBIO— Biodiversità di ambienti marini nel tempo e nello spazio attraverso taxa rappresentativi: conoscenza e conservazione. PIAno di inCEntivi per la RIcerca di Ateneo 2024/2026 – Linea di Intervento 1 Progetti di Ricerca Collaborativa, Università degli Studi di Catania (22.500 €) (PI R. Sanfilippo).

2022–2027. ERC Starting Grant “ROCKS PARADOX — Dissecting the paradox of stasis in evolutionary biology” (PI K.L. Voje, Università di Oslo, Norvegia).

2018–2024. ERC Consolidator Grant “Abiota, Biota, Constraints in Macroevolutionary Processes — macroevolution.abc” (PI L.H. Liow, Università di Oslo, Norvegia).

2017–2021. The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant “Molecules meet fossils–an integrated approach to studying marine palaeodiversity” (PI A. Waeschenbach, Museo di Storia Naturale Londra, Regno Unito).

2017–2021. Young Research Talent Grant “Dissecting evolutionary rates across time: Bridging micro- and macroevolution — DETERMINE”. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Norvegese. (PI K.L. Voje, Università di Oslo, Norvegia).