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Radouane is a guest Ph.D student from University of Oran 2. At the FAU, his work focuses on three axes of research about the Upper Jurassic of the Ouarsenis Mountains North West of Algeria:

the evolution of the carbonates deposits during a rifting phase;

origin of red nodular limestones(Ammo... Continue

Shenyang is a guest Ph.D student from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. At the FAU, his work focuses on the following two topics:
1. Shelly fauna recoveries and their geographic pattern aftermath of the latest... Continue

May is a micropaleontologist with a specialty in marine ostracods. She did her PhD (2019) with Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara in the University of Hong Kong and will be investigating ostracods faunal changes through Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Tasman Frontier (IODP Expedition 371) at FAU more Continue

Niklas Hohmann, a student from our Master program, published a new statistical tool that allow to correct the effects of changing deposition rates on geological data. These deposition rates determine how much time it takes to form rocks of a given thickness, and can therefore alter our interpretation of paleobiological rates when examining this rock. Continue