PETER MANN DE TOLEDO
Peter Mann de Toledo, 41, graduated in biology at the Universidade
Federal do Paraná in 1983, with a master's degree in geology with
emphasis in vertebrate paleontology from the Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul in 1986, and earned a Ph.D. in Geology at the University
of Colorado at Boulder in 1996. He started his professional career in
1987 at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi as a leader paleontologist
responsible for the curation of the fossil, rock and mineral
collections. Since 1995 has committed significant effort into
institutional strengthning following an administrative path from Head of
the Ecology and Geosciences Department in 1995 to Vice-Director of
Research in 1998, becoming acting Director in 1999, and assuming the
director's position of the Goeldi Museum since 12/2000. Regarding
network research programs, he currently participates as the coordinator
of the GEOMA - Environmental Modelling Network of Amazonia, a
collaborative effort formed by 07 research units of the ministery of
Science and Technology, and is in the middle of a four-year term as
International Coordinator of the subprogram of Biological Diversity of
the ibero-american cooperation program in Science and Technology
(CYTED).
The major scientific field of interest is the study of amazonian
vertebrate paleontology, specially linked to the understanding of the
evolutionary trends and community structure of neotropical mammals
during the Tertiary and Quaternary and evolution of terrestrial
ecosystems in Amazonia.
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