Our research is carried out through a network in collaboration with international and national research institutes. Below is a list of our collaborations in the form of joint research projects or specific publications. We have not included other kinds of links that have not yet resulted in any specific form of collaboration.

Human Evolution Research Center

Department of Integrative Biology / Museum of Vertebrate Zoology • University of California, Berkeley • 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building • Berkeley (USA). We are collaborating with this institute on the RHOI: Revealing Hominid Origins Initiative, which is funded by NSF-USA. It is an international, multidisciplinary initiative, aimed at revealing the origins and early evolution of the Hominidae family. Fifty scientists from 13 countries are taking part and the ICP has a team of five researchers involved.

Dipartimento de Palaeontology Universita di Firenze

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Firenze, via G. La Pira, 4, Firenze (Italy). We collaborate closely with this department, which studies primate fossils from Europe, in particular Oreopithecus bambolii, an island hominoid endemic to Tuscany. The work is carried out within the framework of a project called “Large simian fossils (Hominoidea) in the Miocene in the Mediterranean area: origin, palaeobiology and evolution”. HOPE. IP: S. Moyà-Solà, Ministry of Education and Science, CGL2006-04548/BTE. 2008-2011.

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Università “La Sapienza” Rome (Italy).

M. Rita Palombo. We collaborate with this department on joint projects concerning the study of fossil fauna from Mediterranean islands. It is part of a project called “The evolution of life-history patterns in fossil and recent island and continental mammals: a comparative approach. Ministry of Education and Science, CGL2006-04548/BTE. 2008-2011. (Palombo, M.R., Köhler, M., Moyà-Solà, S., & Giovanazzo, G. (2008) Brain versus body mass in endemic ruminant artiodactils: a case study of Myotragus balearicus and smallest Candiacervus species from Mediterranean islands. Quaternary International, 182: 160–183).

Institute of Paleontology, University of Bonn, Germany.

Dr. P. Martin Sander Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology (Bonn, Germany). We collaborate with this institute on palaeohistological studies in fossil vertebrates in order to infer their palaeobiology. It is part of the project called “The evolution of life-history patterns in fossil and recent island and continental mammals: a comparative approach. Ministry of Education and Science, CGL2006-04548/BTE. 2008-2011.

Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University, (Cambridge, USA).

Prof. Dr. R. Wrangham. We collaborate closely with this researcher from Harvard University in Cambridge on evolution under island conditions. (Köhler M., Moyà-Solà S. & Wrangham R. W. Island rules cannot be broken (2008) Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23 (1): 7-8 (DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2007.10.002)).

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Hardard University, (Cambridge, USA)

Prof. David Pilbeam, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. We have been collaborating with this researcher and his group at Harvard University for many years. We are currently designing a project that we will submit to the National Science Foundation USA to carry out research comparing the changes in fauna during the Middle and Late Miocene in Catalonia and Pakistan.

Palaeontology Research Group in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (SEAES) at the University of Manchester (UK).

Dr Phil Manning. The ICP has a close collaborative relationship with this department at the University of Manchester based on two projects. This involves using the latest technology to digitise large structures and applying it to the study of dinosaur tracks in Spain and Portugal. The projects involve the use of LiDAR, 3D Digital Mapping in the Fumanya area (Bergadà, Catalonia) and the Iberian Dinosaur Tracks Project.

Georgian National Museum. Tbilisi (Georgia).

Our institutes collaborate on studying the fauna in the Neogene in Georgia: “The two Iberias. Climate crises and fauna exchanges in the Late Neogene in the Western Mediterranean and Eastern Paratethys”. International cooperation, Spain/Republic of Georgia. Duke and Duchess of Soria Foundation. Participating scientific researcher Dr. M. Furió.

Max-Plank Institut (Berlin, Germany)

Dr. L. Demetrius. We collaborate on studies concerning mathematical analysis of evolutionary processes. (Demetrius, L. & Köhler, M. (Submitted) Directionality theory and the dynamics of speciation. Evolution).

Department of Geology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

We are collaborating on a project on river basins in the Neogene in Morocco from the viewpoint of biostratigraphy.

DeparDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Granada (Spain).

We are collaborating on the study of fauna in the Neogene and Quaternary in river basins in the south of the Iberian Peninsular.  (Minwer-Barakat, R.; García-Alix, A., Martín Suárez, E. and Freudenthal, M., (2008) The latest Ruscinian and early Villanyian Arvicolinae from southern Spain re-examined: Biostratigraphical implications. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. 28(3):841-850.---------Minwer-Barakat, R.; García-Alix, A., Agustí, J., Martín Suárez, E. and Freudenthal, M., (In press) The micromammal fauna from Negratín-1 (Guadix Basin, Southern Spain): new evidence of African-Iberian mammal exchanges during the Late Miocene, Palaeontology.

Department of Palaeontology, University of Lyon (France)

Dr. P. Mein. We are collaborating on the study of insectivorous fauna in the Neogene. (Furió, M. & Mein, P. (2008) A new species of Deinsdorfia (Soricidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Spain. Comptes Rendus Palevol , 7 (6): 347- 359).          

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis (Leiden, Netherlands)

L., van den Hoek Ostende. We are collaborating on the study of insectivorous fauna in the Neogene. (van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Furió, M. &  García-Paredes, I. (2009) New data on Paenelimnoecus from the Middle Miocene of Spain in support of the subfamily Allosoricinae (Soricidae, Mammalia). Acta Paleontológica Polonica).

Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences (Montana, USA).

Department of Palaeontology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

Dr. A. Malgosa. We are collaborating on the study of some primate fossils. (Alba, D.M., Moyà-Solà, S., Malgosa, A., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Robles, J.M., Almécija, S., Galindo, Rotgers, C. and Bertó Mengual, J.V. (In press) A new species of Pliopithecus Gervais, 1849 (Primates: Pliopithecidae) from the Middle Miocene (MN8) of Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain). Am. Jour. Phys. Anthrop.).

University of Sassari (Italy). Dr. Stefano Enzo (Professor at the Chemistry Dept., Univ. Sassari) and Giampaolo Piga (Intern at the Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Research project to try to assess the possibility of developing a new absolute dating method using X-ray diffraction. Piga, G., Santos-Cubedo, A, Moya-Solà, S., Brunetti, A., Malgosa, A. & Enzo, S. (in press, 2009): X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) investigation in human and animal fossil bones from Holocene to Middle Triassic. Journal of Archaeological Science.