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CONSUELO SENDINO: ACADEMICIAN & CURATOR OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS 🌍
📚 EARLY ACADEMIC PURSUITS
Consuelo Sendino embarked on her academic journey at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), where she earned her Licenciatura in Geology in 1989. She continued to deepen her expertise in the geological sciences, receiving a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from the Foundation Alfonso Martín Escudero in 2000. Sendino pursued her Ph.D. in Palaeontology at the University Complutense of Madrid, graduating cum laude in 2008.
🧪 PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS
Consuelo Sendino’s career spans multiple curatorial and leadership roles. From 1992 to 2008, she served as a Curator at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, where she coordinated several high-profile scientific projects, including her role as Project Coordinator for GBIF in Madrid. From 2008 to 2022, she worked as Senior Curator of Invertebrates at the Natural History Museum in London and led collections of bryozoans, sponges, and worms. Her work on digitalization, including the Synthesys Project and development of AI tools, has been vital in preserving historical specimens and enhancing accessibility for researchers.
🔬 CONTRIBUTIONS AND RESEARCH FOCUS ON EARTH SCIENCES
Sendino has made significant strides in her research, focusing on invertebrate palaeontology with a specialization in Bryozoa. She is currently involved in groundbreaking work involving the automatic identification of stromatoporoids and the digitization of lithistida collections. Additionally, her efforts to create tools for identifying Mediterranean and North Atlantic Bryozoans have advanced the field of marine invertebrate taxonomy.
🌍 IMPACT AND INFLUENCE
Consuelo Sendino has significantly influenced museum practices through her work on digital curation, contributing to the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales’ digital collections and the Natural History Museum’s Emu database. Her leadership in various workshops and seminars on QR codes for exhibitions and curation has impacted how museum collections are presented to the public and the academic community. Her efforts in promoting scientific outreach have enhanced the general understanding of palaeontology and geology.
📈 ACADEMIC CITATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Sendino’s research has resulted in numerous publications in prominent journals. Her contributions to the field have been cited extensively, highlighting her role in advancing the understanding of Bryozoa and invertebrate palaeontology. Among her noteworthy projects is the Lyell Project, where she digitized and catalogued historical fossil collections, making them more accessible to the global scientific community.
🏅 HONORS & AWARDS
- 2024 Encourage Award from the Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG)
- Various Research Grants for projects on AI-driven identification tools
- National and International Recognition for contributions to digitizing museum collections
🌐 LEGACY AND FUTURE CONTRIBUTIONS
As a member of numerous professional bodies such as the International Bryozoology Association and the Geological Society of London, Sendino’s influence will continue to grow. Her future projects, such as AI identification for stromatoporoids, will likely reshape the study of ancient marine organisms and inspire new ways to connect the public with scientific knowledge.
🌠 FINAL NOTE
Consuelo Sendino’s multifaceted career highlights her commitment to both scientific research and public education. Her curatorial expertise, research initiatives, and leadership in museum digitalization have left a lasting impact on both the scientific community and the general public’s understanding of the natural world.
📑 NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
Spongy-looking microfabrics in the earliest named stromatolite represent deep burial alteration and incipient metamorphism
- Authors: Neuweiler, F., Mueller, M., Walter, B.F., Amati, L., Kershaw, S.
- Journal: Scientific Reports
- Year: 2024
New machaeridian data from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland: Palaeoecological and global palaeobiogeographical implications
- Authors: Candela, Y., Sendino, C.
- Journal: Geobios
- Year: 2023
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT
- Authors: Sendino, C., Clark, B., Morandini, A.C., Lowe, M., Rushlau, W.
- Journal: PalZ
- Year: 2023
Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates – A problem of interpretation
- Authors: Neuweiler, F., Kershaw, S., Boulvain, F., McMenamin, M., Munnecke, A.
- Journal: Sedimentology
- Year: 2023
Enigmatic structures in Palaeozoic fenestrate bryozoans: the case of Fenestella sculptilis
- Authors: Suárez Andrés, J.L., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Sendino, C.
- Book Chapter: Bryozoan Studies 2022
- Year: 2023
Comment on “Range expansion of tropical shallow-water marine molluscs in the NE Atlantic during the last interglacial (MIS 5e): Causes, consequences and utility of ecostratigraphic indicators for the Macaronesian archipelagos”
- Authors: Meco, J., Lomoschitz, A., Betancort, J.-F., Sendino, C.
- Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews
- Year: 2022
The Fossil Lithistida Collection at the Natural History Museum, London (UK)
- Authors: Sendino, C., Tucker, A.
- Journal: Biodiversity Data Journal
- Year: 2022