Numerary Member
Experimental Sciences: PhD in Geology
Date of admission: March 26, 2015
Admission speech: “Geology and Climate: An Approach to the Reconstruction of Ancient Climates from the Geological Record”
Reply speech: Dr. Enrique Tierno Pérez-Relaño, Doctor in Physical Sciences
Outstanding career: An international authority in stratigraphy, tectonics and sedimentary geology of the Iberian Mesozoic. His work has made a decisive contribution to understanding the geological history of the Mediterranean basin and the Earth’s crust.
Dr. RAMON SALAS ROIG
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Sciences (1977).
- PhD in Geological Sciences (1987).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Associate Secondary School Teacher in Natural Sciences (1980).
- University Assistant Professor (1982).
- Associate Professor (1988). Emeritus Professor at the University of Barcelona (2015). Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (2015).
- Secretary (1989–1991) and President (1991–1993) of the Spanish Group for the Study of the Mesozoic of the Geological Society of Spain.
- Member of the Spanish Committee of the International Geological Correlation Programme, UNESCO (1994–1998).
- Principal Investigator of eight R&D National Plan research projects (1990–2012) focused on NE Iberia, analyzing basin evolution —interaction between tectonics, sea-level changes, climate, and sedimentation— and crustal structure. During this period, he led a research team with scientists from the Universities of Zaragoza, Complutense of Madrid and Barcelona.
- Coordinator of the Consolidated Research Group on Sedimentary Geology [SGR 1451] (2009–2014).
- Leader of the Iberia and Western Mediterranean Working Group of the international project IGCP 369 on Comparative Evolution of Perithetyan Rift Basins (1994–1998).
- He has participated in more than thirty national and international research projects and collaborations with hydrocarbon companies, delivering seminars and training courses (1980–2015).
- Member of the Scientific Committee of international congresses and meetings such as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2003, 2015) and The International Association of Sedimentologists (2010, 2011).
PUBLICATIONS
He has published 204 articles and book chapters, mostly in international scientific journals (SCI). Editor of several special issues in leading journals.
- Total citations: 4,282 (ResearchGate); 5,232 (Google Scholar).
- h-index: 36 (ResearchGate); 39 (Google Scholar).
- Reads: 63,666 (ResearchGate).
Selected publications from the last ten years:
- Humphrey, E., Gómez‐Rivas, E., Martín‐Martín, J. D., Neilson, J., Salas, R., & Guimerà, J. (2022). “Depositional and structural controls on a fault‐related dolostone formation” (Maestrat Basin, E Spain). Basin Research, 34(2), 961–990.
- Bover-Arnal, T., Salas, R., Guimerà, J., & Moreno-Bedmar, J. A. (2022). “Eustasy in the Aptian world: A vision from the eastern margin of the Iberian Plate“. Global and Planetary Change, 103849.
- Salas, R., Guimerà, J., Bover-Arnal, T. & Nebot, M. (2019). “The Iberian-Catalan Linkage: The Maestrat and Garraf Basins“. In: C. Quesada & J. T. Oliveira (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach, Regional Geology Reviews, vol. 3.
- Mercedes-Martín, R. & Salas, R. (2019). “Ladinian Rifting Accommodation and Microbialite Development in the Catalan Basin“. In: C. Quesada & J. T. Oliveira (eds.), The Geology of Iberia, vol. 3.
- Travé, A., Nadal, J., Playà, E., Salas, R., Martín-Martín, J. D., & Gómez-Rivas, E. (2018). “Fracture-Related Dolomitization Affecting Late Jurassic—Lowermost Cretaceous Syn-rift Deposits“. Arabian Journal of Geosciences Conference, Springer.
- Tavani, S., Bertok, C., Granado, P., Piana, F., Salas, R., et al. (2018). “The Iberia-Eurasia plate boundary east of the Pyrenees“. Earth-Science Reviews 187, 314–337.
- Bover-Arnal, T., Moreno-Bedmar, J.A., Frijia, G., Pascual-Cebrian, E. & Salas, R. (2016). “Chronostratigraphy of the Barremian–Early Albian of the Maestrat Basin“. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 49(1), 41–68.
- Pascual-Cebrian, E., Götz, S., Bover-Arnal, T., Skelton, P. W., Gili, E., Salas, R., & Stinnesbeck, W. (2016). “Calcite/aragonite ratio fluctuations in Aptian rudist bivalves: Correlation with changing temperatures“. Geology, 44(2), 135–138.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Ramon Bataller Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in Geology written in Catalan, Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1988).
Barcelona, January 2023