Biography

since April 2011

Maternal leave

October 2010

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Potsdam (Germany)

2009-2010

Maternal leave

June 2009

PhD, University of Potsdam (Germany). PhD project founded by the DFG and the Graduate School of the University of Potsdam. Dissertation Project ”Response of shallow-water benthic communities to paleoenvironmental changes during the Early Paleogene”

2003

Post graduate MSc in "geo-material characterization for the environment application", University of Ferrara (Italy) and CNR “Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)”, Bologna, (Italy)

2002

Diploma and Master in Geosciences at the University of Pisa (Italy)

Research

In general the study of shallow-water communities, especially the ecology and biology of fossil and living foraminifera and corals, in relation to changing habitats using paleontological, sedimentological, chemostratigraphical, and paleobiological approaches.

Publications

Articles

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Ballato, P., Košir, A. in press. The Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in shallow-marine successions of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (SW Slovenia).
The Geological Society of America Bulletin 

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Košir, A, 2012. The evolution of mid Paleocene - early Eocene coral communities: how to survive during rapid global warming. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 317-318, 48-65.

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2009. The first microbialite - coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, 271, 1-17.

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Košir, A., 2008. Evolution of shallow benthic communities during the Late Paleocene-earliest Eocene transition in the Northern Tethys (SW Slovenia). Facies, 54, 25-43.

Sabbioni, C., Bonazza, A., Ghedini, N., Zamagni, J., Grossi, C., Brimblecombe, P., 2004. The Tower of London: a case study on stone damage in an urban area. In C. Saiz-Jimenez (ed), Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage. Lisse, Balkem, 57-62.

Conference contributions

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2008. Evolution of shallow water carbonates communities across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Carbonate production recording run-off pulses preceding the PETM?   Poster presentation, IAS, Bochum.

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2008. Paleocene microbialite-coral mounds from the Kras region (SW Slovenia). Oral presentation, EGU, Wien.

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2008. Paleocene to earliest Eocene coral assemblages: ecological decline or an alternative state of development?  Poster presentation, EGU, Wien. 

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., 2007. Facies analysis and shallow benthic foraminifera paleoecology in a mixed carbonate-silicoclastic system, Early Eocene Minervois Region (SW France). Oral presentation, IAS, Patras (Greece).

Moellerhenn, S., Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2007. Thanetian coral-microbialites from the northern Tethys (SW Slovenia): palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Poster presentation, EGU, Wien.

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., Mutti, M., 2007. Palaeoecology of larger foraminifera during the late Palaeocene-earliest Eocene transition in the northern Tethys (SW Slovenia): tropical foraminiferal carbonate production under humid mesotrophic conditions?  Oral presentation, EGU, Wien.

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Košir, A., 2006. Evolution of shallow water carbonates communities across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary – A case study from SW Slovenia. Poster presentation, SEDIMENT, Göttingen.

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Košir, A., 2006. Evolution of shallow-water carbonates communities across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary – constrains from paleoenvironmental and chemostratigraphic analysis (SW Slovenia). Poster presentation “Climate and Biota of the Early Eocene”, Bilbao (Spain).

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Košir, A., 2006. Growth model of Thanetian coral-microbialites (SW Slovenia): paleoenvironmental interpretation. Poster presentation “Climate and Biota of the Early Eocene”, Bilbao (Spain).