Michael D'Antonio
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
Michael D’Antonio is a postdoctoral fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His research focuses on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems over the past 400 million years. He specializes in the evolution of plant structure, development, and physiology; the description of extinct plant taxa using advanced methods; and the co-evolution of terrestrial ecosystems with the carbon cycle.
His work combines field research and museum-based specimen study with advanced imaging and analytical techniques, including X-ray micro-CT scanning, to better understand the history and development of plant life on Earth.