Silvia Blanco Ferrera

Silvia Blanco Ferrera is a Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Oviedo, specializing in Palaeontology. Her research focuses on the intersection of geological history and fossil analysis, particularly in the Cantabrian Zone.

• Education: PhD in Geology from the University of Oviedo (2011), with a dissertation titled "Los conodontos y la evolución tectonotérmica del sector noreste de la zona cantábrica", supervised by Dr. Fernando Bastida Ibáñez and Dr. Susana García López.

Her work integrates tectonic and thermal evolution studies with paleontological dating methods, emphasizing the role of conodonts in reconstructing geological processes.