Biography:Abderrazak El Albani

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Abderrazak El Albani is a French-Moroccan sedimentologist, professor at University of Poitiers at the Hydrasa laboratory (IC2MP - CNRS).[1] He is known for describing the "Francevillian Biota" from the Paleoproterozoic of Gabon, which he suggests represents the oldest known multicellular organisms,[2] though this claim has been questioned by other authors.[3][4]

Biography

French-Moroccan geologist, born in Marrakesh, he studied in the University of Lille, from which he received a doctorate after defending a thesis on geology and sedimentary geochemistry. Between 1996 and 1998, he spent a postdoctoral period at the University of Kiel, in Germany . He published several scientific articles on Paleo-environments, Geobiology and Diagenesis in sedimentary basins. He then joined the Hydrasa laboratory[5] (University of Poitiers – CNRS) in 1999. He was appointed Professor in 2010

References

  1. Hydrasa laboratory
  2. El Albani, Abderrazak et al. (2014). "The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity". PLOS ONE 9 (6): e99438. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099438. PMID 24963687. Bibcode2014PLoSO...999438E. 
  3. Javaux, Emmanuelle J.; Lepot, Kevin (January 2018). "The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age" (in en). Earth-Science Reviews 176: 68–86. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.10.001. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825217304890. ""The identity of the [Francevillian biota] macrostructures remains unknown and their biogenicity is questionable"". 
  4. Fakhraee, Mojtaba; Tarhan, Lidya G.; Reinhard, Christopher T.; Crowe, Sean A.; Lyons, Timothy W.; Planavsky, Noah J. (May 2023). "Earth's surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited" (in en). Earth-Science Reviews 240: 104398. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104398. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825223000879. 
  5. HydrASA - Clays, soils and alterations

External links

Books

El Albani, A., Macchiarelli, R., Meunier, A. 2016. Aux origines de la vie - une nouvelle histoire de l'évolution. Dunod Paris, 224 pp., many b/w pictures in the text, 8 tables of color photos. ISBN:978-2-10-073791-8.

Troppenz, U.-M., Schmälzle, D. 2015. Wohin die Spuren führen - das neue Bild des Präkambriums: Franceville-, Montana und Ediacarafauna. Tetrada Parchim, 192 pp., 162 photos, 2 time tables. ISBN:978-3-00-047871-0.

Troppenz, U.-M. 2017. The New Precambrian - no "boring", but bustling billions in a succession of evolutions and global catastrophes. Tetrada Parchim, 140 pp., 115 photos, 2 time tables. ISBN:978-3-00-054215-2.