From a young age, Jordi Maria was always fascinated by Natural Sciences, Geology and fossils being especially attractive for him. Together with his school friends, planning a fieldtrip to observe and recollect fossils was one of his hobbies. At that time, Jordi Maria was really interested in trilobites. In fact, he gathered an interesting collection of fossils of this group from the Catalonian Palaeozoic rocks. Jordi Maria had no doubts about his future; he wanted to be a palaeontologist. To get it, he enrolled at the Faculty of Geology of the Universitat de Barcelona in the 1986/1987 academic year. Four years later, he got his degree in Geology (1990/1991). During these years, he first met Prof. Jordi Martinell and Dr Rosa Domènech (his ‘Paleontology’ and ‘Invertebrate Paleontology’ professors). Over time, both would become his friends and colleagues for over 20 years. Continuing his formation as palaeontologist, Jordi Maria wanted to develop his Master thesis in the study of trilobites (those collected during his youth), so he proposed to Prof. J. Martinell to be his supervisor. However, since Prof. J. Martinell knew about the wide geological and palaeontological vision that Jordi Maria had demonstrated during his degree, he made him change his mind and convinced him to carry out an ichnological study. Eventually, he defended in 1992 the Master thesis entitled ‘Estructures de bioturbació en el Pliocè marí del Baix Llobregat’ (Bioturbation structures in the marine Pliocene of the Baix Llobregat, Univesitat de Barcelona). Jordi Maria’s way on Ichnology began. From 1992 to 1995 and again under the supervision of Prof. J. Martinell, Jordi Maria earned a predoctoral FPU grant in the Universitat de Barcelona (Earth Sciences PhD programme) to develop the doctoral thesis. During this time, besides become a member of the research group PaleoNeoMed (to which he belonged uninterruptedly until the day of his death), he also had opportunity to do several short stays in different foreign research centres. Among them, that held in the University of Reading (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Roland Goldring was the most important with respect to his overall understanding of Ichnology. Although it is true that Prof. J. Martinell (more interested in bioerosion) introduced Jordi Maria to the ichnology world, Prof. R.

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纪念 Jordi M. de Gibert 博士

Jordi Maria 从小就对自然科学非常着迷，地质学和化石对他特别有吸引力。与他的学校朋友一起，计划实地考察以观察和回忆化石是他的爱好之一。当时，Jordi Maria 对三叶虫非常感兴趣。事实上，他从加泰罗尼亚古生代岩石中收集了一组有趣的化石。Jordi Maria 对自己的未来毫不怀疑。他想成为一名古生物学家。为了得到它，他在 1986/1987 学年就读于巴塞罗那大学地质学院。四年后，他获得了地质学学位（1990/1991）。在这些年里，他第一次见到了 Jordi Martinell 教授和 Rosa Domènech 博士（他的“古生物学”和“无脊椎动物古生物学”教授）。随着时间的推移，两人都成为他 20 多年的朋友和同事。作为古生物学家，Jordi Maria 继续他的职业生涯，希望在三叶虫（他年轻时收集的那些）研究中发展他的硕士论文，因此他提议 J. Martinell 教授担任他的导师。然而，由于 J. Martinell 教授了解 Jordi Maria 在其学位期间展示的广泛的地质和古生物学视野，他让他改变了主意，并说服他进行了一次地质学研究。最终，他在 1992 年通过了题为“Estructures de bioturbació en el Pliocè marí del Baix Llobregat”（巴塞罗那大学，Baix Llobregat 海洋上新世的生物扰动结构）的硕士论文答辩。Jordi Maria 的 Ichnology 之路开始了。从 1992 年到 1995 年，再次在 J. Martinell 教授的指导下，Jordi Maria 获得了巴塞罗那大学（地球科学博士课程）的博士前 FPU 资助，以撰写博士论文。在此期间，除了成为 PaleoNeoMed 研究小组的成员（直到他去世的那天，他一直都属于该研究小组），他也有机会在不同的国外研究中心做几次短期停留。其中，在Roland Goldring教授的指导下在英国雷丁大学举行的那场对他对Ichnology的整体理解最为重要。尽管 J. Martinell 教授（对生物侵蚀更感兴趣）确实将 Jordi Maria 介绍给了生物科学世界，但 R. 除了成为 PaleoNeoMed 研究小组的成员（直到他去世的那天，他一直都属于该小组），他还有机会在不同的外国研究中心做几次短期停留。其中，在Roland Goldring教授的指导下在英国雷丁大学举行的那场对他对Ichnology的整体理解最为重要。尽管 J. Martinell 教授（对生物侵蚀更感兴趣）确实将 Jordi Maria 介绍给了生物科学世界，但 R. 除了成为 PaleoNeoMed 研究小组的成员（直到他去世的那天，他一直都属于该小组），他还有机会在不同的外国研究中心做几次短期停留。其中，在Roland Goldring教授的指导下在英国雷丁大学举行的那场对他对Ichnology的整体理解最为重要。尽管 J. Martinell 教授（对生物侵蚀更感兴趣）确实将 Jordi Maria 介绍给了生物科学世界，但 R. 罗兰·戈德林对 Ichnology 的整体理解最为重要。尽管 J. Martinell 教授（对生物侵蚀更感兴趣）确实将 Jordi Maria 介绍给了生物科学世界，但 R. 罗兰·戈德林对 Ichnology 的整体理解最为重要。尽管 J. Martinell 教授（对生物侵蚀更感兴趣）确实将 Jordi Maria 介绍给了生物科学世界，但 R.