Biography:

Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta got her degree in Biology in 1978 and her Ph.D. in 1982, both at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. She spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the South African Museum in Cape Town, South Africa in 1983. She also stayed as an external researcher at University College London, United Kingdom in 1988. Her main research is focused on Cretaceous ammonoid systematics, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Her interest on Darwin was born while working in the High Cordillera of Mendoza, following Darwins footsteps across the Andes. She is author of numerous articles specially focused in the ammonoids of the Cretaceous basins of southern South America. She has just edited a special issue of the Revista de la Asociacin Geolgica Argentina devoted to Darwin research in Argentina that has been released on February 12, 2009 honoring Darwins 200 anniversary. Her present position is Full Professor in Paleontology, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and Principal researcher at CONICET (Argentine National Agency for Scientific Research).

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