Elena Ghezzo

Paleontologist at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She has served as a courtesy faculty member at the University of Oregon and as a visiting researcher at the National Museum of Scotland. She has participated in excavation campaigns in Italy, Spain, Georgia, Eritrea, the United States, and Peru. She specializes in carnivores of the Last Glacial Maximum, studying their distribution and extinction. She also uses satellite photography to search for fossils in desert areas.