Curriculum Vitae

Micropaleontologist & paleoceanographer
specializing in late Neogene planktonic Foraminifera

Personal Information

ORCID 0000-0002-0227-4369
Google Scholar Jaime Y. SUÁREZ-IBARRA

Languages

    Spanish: Native Portuguese & English: Advanced French: Intermediate Italian: Basic

Publications (click)

Professional Experience

01/02/2025 – Ongoing

Postdoctoral Researcher

Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement-CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France

I apply geometric morphometrics and isotopes on warm water species to document their eco-morphological variability through the last 5 Ma.

Education

PhD in Geology

Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic
16/10/2020 – 21/10/2024
Title: Palaeoceanographic evolution of the western South Atlantic during Marine Isotope Stages 5–1: A foraminiferal perspective.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Katarína Holcová
PhD awarded on 21/10/2024

I used planktonic foraminifera to reconstruct the interplay between primary productivity, changes in the water mass geometry and carbonate dissolution during the last 110 thousand years. I documented for the western South Atlantic that high surface productivity and southern component water drove deep ocean carbon storage during the glacial.

MSc in Palaeontology

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
01/03/2019 – 23/08/2020

BSc in Geology

Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
14/04/2014 – 21/11/2018

Grants & Funding

Research Funding as Main Researcher

  • 2025: Scholarship for 2 master students' intership. CEREGE (7K EUR)
  • 2024-2022: Response of calcareous plankton to changing CO2 levels from the last glacial cycle. Grant Agency Charles University (660K CZK, ~26.5K EUR)
  • 2023: Fellowship Johanna M. Resig Foraminiferal Research Fellowship from the Cushman Foundation (15K USD, ~13K EUR)
  • 2023: The Joseph Cushman Travel Grant from the Cushman Foundation (600 USD, ~520 EUR)
  • 2022: Paleoecology and chronology of Quaternary gomphotheres from septentrional Andes Mountains. Faculty of Sciences, Charles University (14K CZK, ~560 EUR)
  • 2022: 4EU+ Mobility Grant, 4EU+ Alliance (1K EUR)
  • 2022: Angelina Messina Grant. The Micropalaeontological Society (300 GBP, ~350 EUR)
  • 2022: Annual Conference travel. The Micropalaeontological Society (150 GBP, ~175 EUR)
  • 2022: Resilience of calcareous plankton to rising pCO2 and temperatures. 4EU+ Alliance (115K CZK, ~4.6K EUR)

Research Funding as Participant Researcher

  • 2023-2026: Productivity, ventilation and carbonate dissolution as proxies for ocean carbon storage processes – a case study from the S-SE Brazilian continental margin. Grant GAČR 23-06084J / FAPESP Collaboration (6.9M CZK, ~275K EUR)

PhD and MSc Funding

  • 2020-2024: PhD scholarship, STARS program, Czech Republic
  • 2019-2020: MSc scholarship, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil

Peer Review Service

  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Lethaia
  • Fossil Imprint

Courses & Scientific Activities

  • 2025: Sampling of living planktonic foraminifera in the Mediterranean Sea, CEREGE, France
  • 2024: International School on Foraminifera: Advanced course on foraminiferal biostratigraphy, Poland
  • 2023: ECORD Summer School 2023, MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
  • 2022: εNd isotopes analyses, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2022: Sediment core sampling, Bremen Core Repository, Germany
  • 2022: Stable isotopes preparation and analysis, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • 2022: Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Italy
  • 2022: Marine Biogeochemistry short course, University of the Algarve, Portugal