Romero, Edgardo Juan   (1936 -  )

Born in Argentina in 1936;

He attended the University of Buenos Aires where he graduated in 1967 from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.

Over the following few years he worked as an assistant teacher in palaeontology at both the University of La Plata (ULP) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) before studying for a doctorate at the same two institutions; he received his PhD in the field of palaeobotany in 1973.

Romero's teaching career continued after this when he became a biology lecturer at UBA, here he would remain, becoming a professor of natural sciences in 1992. He teaches and researches in the fields of palaeobotany, phytogeography and palynology (morphology and systematics) and is responsible for directing numerous theses, both undergraduate and postgraduate.

In 1983 a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation allowed him to travel all over the world, working in diverse institutions in Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania (Australia), Christchurch and Dunedin (New Zealand) and St. Louis and New York (U.S.A.).

He has published some 85 works in the field of palaeobotany, including a book on pollen fossils of Fagaceae and Gymnosperms in the Eocene (1977) and a book chapter on the biological relationships between Africa and South America (1993).

Source: Extracted from:
https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000082411
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