Curriculum Vitae
since 2021 Scientist at Nanjing University
2017-2020 Scientist and project leader at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
DFG project: Climate development of Gondwana in the Jurassic (AL 1740/3-1)
2016 Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
2013-2015 Assistant professor at the Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel, Germany
2009-2013 PhD thesis at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Title: “The Oxfordian Dhosa Oolite member of the Kachchh Basin, western India - Palaeoenvironmental, palaeogeographic, and palaeoclimatic signals of a condensed sequence”
2007-2008 Diploma thesis in cooperation with the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Title: “Holocene environments and macrofauna of the Pearl River Delta, China: integrated analysis of core PRD 10”
2006 Diploma mapping in the Massif Central, France
2006-2008 Student of Geology-Palaeontology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
2005 Student of Geology at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2002-2004 Student of Geology-Palaeontology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Research areas
My research focuses on reconstructing environmental conditions and ecosystems in Earth’s history. Published articles cover study areas on four continents (Asia, North America, South America, and Africa) and different time intervals (Meso- and Cenozoic). Previous work dealt with ammonite taxonomy, ichnology, palaeoecology, sedimentology, and palaeoclimatology. Currently, I concentrate mainly on reconstructing temperature and rainfall patterns with the help of geochemical analyses of calcareous invertebrate shells.
Publications since 2015
Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M., Pandey, D.K., Chaskar, K. & Bhosale, S. 2021. Facies analysis and palaeoecology of the Jurassic Spiti Shale Formation in the Spiti area, northern India. – Journal of Palaeogeography 10: 438-462.
Bhosale, S., Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M., Chaskar, K. & Thakkar, M.G. 2021. Palaeobiogeography of the Late Jurassic ammonite genus Paraboliceras in the Indo-Pacific Realm and newly collected material from Spiti Valley, India. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 302: 63-87.
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Pandey, D.K., Andersen, N., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Bhosale, S., Chaskar, K. & Habermann, J.M. 2021. First record of stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Middle to Late Jurassic belemnites from the Indian Himalayas and their potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. - Journal of Palaeogeography 10: 24.
Sadji, R., Munnecke, R., Benhamou, M., Alberti, M., Belkhedim, S. & Ramdane, N. 2021. Late Jurassic temperatures for the southern Tethyan margin based on belemnites δ18O from the Ouarsenis Mountains, northwestern Algeria. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 566: 110224.
Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M. & Pandey, D.K. 2021. Palaeoecological analysis of maximum flooding zones from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of the Kachchh Basin, western India. - Facies 67: 7.
Alberti, M., Parent, H., Garrido, A.C., Andersen, N., Garbe-Schönberg, D. & Danise, S. 2020b. Stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Jurassic belemnites, bivalves and brachiopods from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina): challenges and opportunities for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. - Journal of the Geological Society of London 178: jgs2020-163.
Alberti, M., Leshno, Y., Fürsich, F.T., Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Andersen, N. & Garbe-Schönberg, D. 2020a. Stress in the tropics? Impact of a latitudinal seawater δ18O gradient on Middle Jurassic temperature reconstructions at low latitudes. - Geology 48: 1210-1215.
Parent, H., Garrido, A.C., Brambilla, L. & Alberti, M. 2020. Upper Bathonian ammonites from Chacay Melehué (Neuquén Basin, Argentina) and the chronostratigraphy of the Steinmanni Zone. - Boletín del Instituto de Fisiografía Geología 90: 1-37.
Danise, S., Price, G.D., Alberti, M. & Holland, S.M. 2020. Isotopic evidence for partial geochemical decoupling between a Jurassic epicontinental sea and the open ocean. - Gondwana Research 82: 97-107.
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T. & Andersen, N. 2019c. First steps in reconstructing Early Jurassic sea water temperatures in the Andean Basin of northern Chile based on stable isotope analyses of oyster and brachiopod shells. - Journal of Palaeogeography 8: 33.
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T. & Pandey, D.K. 2019b. Sedimentology of a prograding delta complex: The Jurassic succession of the Wagad Uplift in the Kachchh Basin, western India. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 292: 1-24.
Alberti, M., Arabas, A., Fürsich, F.T., Andersen, N. & Ziółkowski, P. 2019a. The Middle to Upper Jurassic stable isotope record of Madagascar: linking temperature changes with plate tectonics during the break-up of Gondwana. - Gondwana Research 73: 1-15.
Habermann, J.M., Alberti, M., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Braun, D.R., Capelli, C., Cunha, E., da Silva, M.F., Lüdecke, T., Madiquida, H., Martinez, F.I., Mathe, J., Negash, E., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Stalmans, M., Regala, F.T., Wynn, J.G., Bobe, R. & Carvalho, S. 2019. Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514: 723-738.
Pandey, D.K., Das, R., Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Shekhawat, R.S. & Udupa, P. 2019. Phenetic classification of Kimmeridgian ammonites from the eastern Kachchh Basin, India. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift 93: 255-263.
Sadatzki, H., Alberti, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Andersen, N., Strey, P., Fortunato, H., Andersson, C. & Schäfer, P. 2019. Paired Li/Ca and δ18O peaks in bivalve shells from the Gulf of Panama mark seasonal coastal upwelling. - Chemical Geology 529: 119295.
Alberti, M. & Reich, S. 2018. A palaeoecological review of the lower Gatun Formation (Miocene) of Panama with special emphasis on trophic relationships. - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 98: 571-591.
Fürsich, F.T., Uchman, A., Alberti, M. & Pandey, D.K. 2018. Trace fossils of an amalgamated storm-bed succession from the Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, India: The significance of timeaveraging in ichnology. - Journal of Palaeogeography 7: 14-31.
Pandey, D.K., Swami, N.K., Sharma, J.K. & Alberti, M. 2018b. Callovian ammonites from a condensed horizon in the Kuldhar Member of the northeastern Jaisalmer Basin (Rajasthan, India) and their biostratigraphic implications. - Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 63: 37-52.
Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M., Sharma, J.K. & Swami, N. 2018a. Recurrent hardgrounds and their significance for intra-basinal correlations: A case study of Upper Bathonian rocks from the western margin of the Indian Craton. - Journal of Palaeogeography 7: 14 (12 pages).
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T. & Pandey, D.K. 2017d. First record of a xiphosuran trackway (Kouphichnium isp.) from the Jurassic of India. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift 91: 113-126.
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Abdelhady, A.A. & Andersen, N. 2017c. Middle to Late Jurassic equatorial seawater temperatures and latitudinal temperature gradients based on stable isotopes of brachiopods and oysters from Gebel Maghara, Egypt. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 468: 301-313.
Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Pandey, D.K. & Mukherjee, D. 2017b. Overview on the Middle to Upper Jurassic sedimentary succession of Gangta Bet in the Kachchh Basin, western India, with special emphasis on its lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and palaeoenvironment. - Journal of the Geological Society of India 89: 259-270.
Alberti, M., Pandey, D.K., Sharma, J.K., Swami, N.K. & Uchman, A. 2017a. Slumping in the Upper Jurassic Baisakhi Formation of the Jaisalmer Basin, western India: sign of synsedimentary tectonics? - Journal of Palaeogeography 6: 321-332.
Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M. & Pandey, D.K. 2017b. Behavioural variants of the trace fossil Gyrochorte. - Zitteliana 89: 13-21.
Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M., Pandey, D.K. & Rai, J. 2017a. Event beds or condensed unit? Analysis of a wood-log concentration in the Upper Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, western India. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 466: 406-415.
Mukherjee, D., Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T. & Pandey, D.K. 2017. Brachiopods from the Middle to Upper Jurassic strata of Gangta Bet in the Kachchh Basin, western India. - Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 62: 137-146.
Prasad, G.V.R., Pandey, D.K., Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Thakkar, M.G. & Chauhan, G.D. 2017. Discovery of the first ichthyosaur from the Jurassic of India: implications for Gondwanan palaeobiogeography. - PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185851.
Pandey, D.K., Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Bhaumik, S. & Ayoub-Hannaa, W. 2016. A review of the Tithonian ammonites from the Kachchh Basin, western India. - Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 61: 141-173.
Rai, J., Prakash, N., Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M., Singh, A., Garg, S. & Swami, N. 2016. A Middle Oxfordian (Jurassic) flora from the Kachchh Basin, western India, with the earliest record of bennettitaleans from the subcontinent. - Geophytology 46: 133-146.
Alberti, M., Pandey, D.K., Hethke, M. & Fürsich, F.T. 2015. Ammonites of the subfamily Mayaitinae Spath, 1928 from the Oxfordian of Kachchh, western India. - Geobios 48: 85-130.
Pandey, D.K., Alberti, M. & Fürsich, F.T. 2015. Ammonites of the genera Peltoceras Waagen, 1871, Metapeltoceras Spath, 1931, and Euaspidoceras Spath, 1931 from the Upper Callovian and Oxfordian of Kachchh, western India. - Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 60: 1-26.
Pienkowski, G., Branski, P., Pandey, D.K., Schlögl, J., Alberti, M. & Fürsich, F.T. 2015. Dinosaur footprints from the Thaiat ridge and their palaeoenvironmental background, Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India. - Volumina Jurassica 13 (1): 17-26.
Rai, J., Garg, S., Gupta, M., Singh, A., Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T., Alberti, M. & Garg, R. 2015. Integrated biostratigraphy of the Jurassic strata of the Wagad Uplift, Kachchh, western India. - Volumina Jurassica 13 (2): 55-80.