EMPLOYMENT
2001-2016: Researcher at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, University of Ferrara.
2016-2022: Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, University of Ferrara.
2022-present: Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, University of Ferrara.


RESEARCH AND TEACHING ACTIVITY IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
1. 19/12/2007–31/03/2008, visiting professor, Tohoku Museum of Natural Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan).
2. 19/12/2009–10/04/2010, visiting professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya (Japan).
3. 19/12/2011–08/04/2012, visiting professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya (Japan).
4. 19/12/2013–31/03/2014, visiting professor, Tohoku Museum of Natural Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan).
5. 01/10–30/11/2018 International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Science (GP-EES), visiting professor at the Graduate School/Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.
6. 01/10–30/11/2019 International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Science (GP-EES), visiting professor at the Graduate School/Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.
7. 13/090–20/11/2023 International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Science (GP-EES), visiting professor at the Graduate School/Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.

• 15/01–19/03/2016, short-term invitation fellowship, research fellowship, 60 days, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.
• 28/10-30/11/2022, short-term invitation fellowship, research fellowship, 60 days, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.
- June 2004, invited researcher, Tohoku University, Sendai.
- From 2007, visiting professor of the LLP/Erasmus Programme for the Teaching Staff Mobility (STA), teaching exchanges with the University of Granada (Spain).

WORKSHOPS AND CONGRESSES ORGANIZED, SESSIONS CHAIRED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
-Guest lectures at the University of Perugia, Tübingen (Germany), Basel (Switzerland), Chambèry (France), Granada (Spain), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), Nagoya University (Japan).
- 04/10/1997, Paleobenthos, Riunone Annuale, fieldtrip leader, “Comunità di piattaforma del Bartonian e del Priaboniano (Eocene medio-superiore, Colli Berici, Vicenza): un approccio paleoecologico”.
- 1996–2000, Italian coordinator for the IGCP Project 393, "Neritic events at the Middle-Upper Eocene boundary".
- 2000, scientific member of the IGCP 393 and organizer of the final meeting, Ferrara 07/2000.
- 2001, inviated speaker at the 10th International Symposium of the IFAA in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- 2003, vice-President dell’International Fossil Algae Association (IFAA).
- 2003/2007/2015, member of the scientific committee of the 4th, 5th e 11th International Symposium dell'IFFA (4th/2003/Granada, 5th/2007/Zagreb, 11th/2015/Okinawa).
- 2003, responsible and organizer of the International workshop "Oligo–Miocene shallow water carbonates: biogenic components and facies" (2003), UniFe.
- 2005, scientific responsible for the organization of the 5th Regional Symposium of IFFA held in Ferrara il 30–31 Agosto/1–3 Settembre 2005.
- 2006, Session chairman of the International Sedimentological Congress (International Association of Sedimentologists), Fukuoka.
- 2009, invited speaker at the 3rd International Rhodolith Workshop in Buzios (Brazil).
- 2011 June, member of the scientific committee of the 6th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, Taphos 2011 (Tübingen).
- 2014, scientific responsible for the organization of the 7th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, Taphos 2014 (Ferrara).
- 2017 September, member of the scientific committee of the 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, Taphos 2017 (Vienna).

EDITORIAL BOARDS
-from 2011, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (Revista Espanola de Paleontologia).
-from 2012, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae.
-from 2020, Diversity (MDPI), https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/editors
-from 2021, Fossils (MDPI), https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fossils/editors
-from 2005 to 2014, responsible of the Sezione di Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica degli Annali dell'Università di Ferrara.
-from 2014, responsible of the Sezione di Fisica e Scienze della Terra degli Annali dell'Università di Ferrara.
-2010-2013, member of the University Committee UniFePress for the Faculty of Sciences, Univ., Ferrara
-2012-2016, editor-in-chief of the Annali dell'Università degli Studi di Ferrara.

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/281536

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Author of 94 papers in extenso, among which 76 published in journals cited by ISI Web of Science and 68 by Scopus. In ISI Web of Science the h-Index is 23 (1601 citations; October 2022); in Scopus the h-Index is 24 (1749 citations; October 2022); in Google Scholar the h-Index is 30 (3086 citations; October 2022). The g-Index is 36 (citations in Scopus, July 2021).

ORCID: 0000-0002-6833-9874
Web of Science Researcher ID: AAH-1164-2020

BOOKS, GUIDEBOOKS OR SPECIAL VOLUMES EDITED
1. Bassi D. (Ed., 2000)- Shallow water benthic communities at the Middle-Upper Eocene boundary. Southern and north-eastern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary. Field trip guidebook of the 5th meeting IGCP 393 IUGS-UNESCO. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, supplemento Scienze della Terra.
2. Bassi D. (Ed., 2003)- Workshop: Oligo-Miocene shallow water carbonates: biogenic components and facies. Annali dell'Univ. di Ferrara, serie Scienze della Terra, vol. 10, supplemento, 1-29 pp.
3. Fugagnoli A., Bassi D. (eds, 2005). Giornata di Studi Paleontologici “Prof. Carmela Loriga Broglio”. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, vol. speciale.
4. Fugagnoli A., Bassi D. (eds, 2005). 5th Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association. Abstract book. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, vol. 1.
5. Nebelsick J.H., Bassi D. (eds, 2007). Calcareous algae: contributions from the 5th Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association. Neue Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 244/2.
6. Nebelsick J.H., Bassi D. (eds, 2011). 11th Taphos meeting, Tübingen, Abstract book. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica.
7. Bassi D., Posenato R., Nebelsick J.H. (eds, 2014). 12th Taphos meeting, Tübingen, Abstract book. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica.
8. Hottinger L. (Bassi D., ed.) 2014. Paleogene larger rotaliid foraminifera from the western and central Neotethys. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, XIV, 196 pp., 119 illus., 6 illus. in color. ISBN 978-3-319-02852-1. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-02853-8
9. Iryu Y., Bassi D. (eds., 2017). The 11th International Symposium on Fossil Algae. Proceedings. Island Arc 26/3, DOI: 10.1111/iar.12213