Francisco De Borja Figueirido Castillo

Biography

I have a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Valencia (2004) and I did my doctoral thesis at the University of Málaga (2005-2009), including research stays in London and New York, obtaining the highest qualification (Outstanding "Cum Laude") and awarded the extraordinary prize of doctorate (2010) by the University of Malaga. Six years after reading my doctoral thesis, my research experience has 26 papers (23 published and 3 in the press) in journals indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), of which 70% are first quartile of the specific area (Q1), including magazines such as Nature Communications (1), PNAS (1), Evolution (2), Paleobiology (2). The average impact factor of my publications is 3.28. In addition, I am the first author in 60% of them, and the first or second author in 80%. Currently, my work has received 299 citations (233 excluding self-citations), and I have twelve H index points (445 citations; H-index = 13 in academic Google). I have presented 60 papers to congresses, both national (31) and international (29), and I have been invited to present my research in different institutions, symposia and workshops.

Research Interest

Anatomy, function and evolution of the axial skeleton and its relation to the mode of locomotion in current and extinct carnivores