Academic positions

2006-Present: Ph. D. student, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.

2003-Present: Assistant Lecturer, Geology Department, Mansoura University, Egypt.

2008-Present: Affiliated Scientist, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center. T8, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, 11794, NY, United States.

1998-2003: Demonstrator, Geology Department, Mansoura University, Egypt.

Education

Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK, expected 2010 in shaa ALLAH: in the field of vertebrate paleontology. Thesis title: “Late Eocene rodents from Fayum Depression, Egypt: taxonomic, phylogenetic, and biogeographic implications”

M.Sc., Mansoura University, Egypt, 2002: in the field of paleontology and stratigraphy. Masters title: “The Senonian macrofauna of west-central Sinai: Systematic and stratigraphic distribution”

B.Sc., 1997: in general geology (Geology and Chemistry) from Mansoura University, with grade Very Good with honors; ranked first in class

Awards

1993-1997: Honor list of the Faculty of Science, Mansoura University

2003/2004: Best M.Sc. thesis at Mansoura University

Grants

2010: Preparators’ Grant Award from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

2006-2010: Full scholarship from the Egyptian government to study for a Ph.D. at Oxford University.

2007-2009: Baldwin Fellowship for Ph.D. studies from The Leakey Foundation.

Field experience

Late Cretaceous Dakhla, Duwi and Quseir formations and Paleogene Minqar el-Talh beds, Dakhla, Kharga, Baris area , Egypt (2008 and 2010)

Eocene-Oligocene beds, Gebel Qattrani area, Fayum Depression, north Egypt (2006-2009)

Late Cretaceous Lubur Sandstone, Turkana Basin, Kenya (2008)

Paleogene deposits, Yemen (2007)

Eocene-Oligocene beds, Wadi Hitan area, Fayum Depression, north Egypt (2006)

Santonian Mattulah and Sudr frormations, Abu Zenima area, West-central Sinai, north east Egypt (1999-2002)

Member and leader of numerous field trips in support of course work and research in Sinai, Eastern Desert, and Western Desert of Egypt

Media

Oxford- Scienceblog

National Science Foundation

Nature

References

Erik Seiffert, Ph.D. Department of Anatomical Sciences Health Sciences Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, 11794-8081, U.S.A. Tel: 631.444.6945 Fax: 631.444.3947 e-mail: erik.seiffert@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Kora MA, Ph.D., Professor of Stratigraphy & Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University Geology Department, Faculty of Sciences Mansoura Egypt. Tel: +2 050 2212072 Fax: +2-050-2246781 e-mail: Kora@mans.edu.eg

Patrick M. O'Connor, Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Sciences 135 Life Sciences Building, Ohio University College of Medicine, Athens, OH 45701 Tel: 740.593.2110 Fax: (740) 597-2778 e-mail: oconnorp@ohiou.edu

Elwyn L. Simons, Ph.D., D.Phil., D.Sc. James B. Duke Professor of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy, Duke University Division of Fossil Primates, Duke Primate Center 1013 Broad Street Durham, North Carolina, 27705, U.S.A. Tel: 919.416.8420 ex. 27 Fax: 919.416.8584 e-mail: esimons@duke.edu