姓名 Name: Farid Saleh

邮箱 E-mail: farid.nassim.saleh@gmail.com

个人简介 Brief Introduction

My main work focuses on the preservation of soft-tissues in the fossil record. During my Ph.D., I worked on reconstructing the preservational mechanisms for soft-tissue preservation in the Fezouata Biota (Ordovician, Morocco) using geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological approaches. Recently, I joined the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology to work on the Chengjiang Biota (Cambrian, China). I also have interests in constraining preservational biases in Paleozoic sites with soft-tissue preservation in order to better understand the structuring of ancient ecosystems.

学历 Education

2017.10–2020.07 Ph.D., Lyon1 University and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Thesis in Earth Sciences – Sedimentology, Taphonomy: Mechanisms for exceptional fossil preservation in the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco)

2015.09–2017.06 MS, Lyon1 University and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Program: Earth Sciences – Paleontology, Sedimentology and Paleoenvironments.

2012.10–2015.07 BS, Lebanese University, Lebanon

Program: Life and Earth Sciences, with distinction

职历 Appointment

2021.01–now   Diversity Officer of the Palaeontological Association

2019.02–2020.01 Treasurer of the French Group for the Paleozoic

2018.05–2020.07 Council member at the Doctoral School E2M2 (Evolution, Ecosystems, Microbiology and Modeling)

2018.11–2020.07 Council member at the Observatory of Lyon (Geology Laboratory and the Astrophysics Research Center of Lyon)

奖励 Awards & Honours

2019.12 President’s Prize honorable mention, 63rd annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

2019.06 Best student talk award, 11th North American Paleontological Convention, University of California Riverside, California, USA

科研项目 Grants

1. 2021–2022 Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation’s Research Grant

Project: Untangling the preservational knot for the Chengjiang Biota. 80000 Yuan

2. 2021–2023 Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation’s Program for the Introduction of International Talents

Project: Untangling the preservational knot for the Chengjiang Biota. 600000 Yuan

3. 2019–2020 French National Center for Scientific Research, Tellus INTERRVIE Program

Project: Geochemistry of a Lower Ordovician Lagerstätte from Morocco (2nd author). 4800 USD

4. 2018–2019  French National Center for Scientific Research, Tellus INTERRVIE Program

Project: Mechanisms for exceptional fossil preservation in the Fezouata Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovician, Morocco) (2nd author). 9200 USD

5. 2017–2020 French National Research Fund for Doctoral Fellowships

Project: Mechanisms for exceptional fossil preservation in the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco. 80000 USD

6. 2018 IdexLyon international mobility scheme (6 months). 4000 USD

7. 2019.12  Paleontological Association travel grant. 500 USD

8. 2016.12 Labex Lio Scholarship for Excellence (6 months). 4000 USD

研究兴趣Research Interests

1. Soft-tissue pyritization

2. Clay-bacterial interactions

3. Preservational biases

4. Decay experiments

5. Body-size variations in marine environments

论文Publications

1. Saleh, F., et al., 2021. Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota. Earth Science Reviews (in press).

2. Saleh, F., et al., 2020, Biogenic iron plays a role in fossilization: A hypothesis. BioEssays 42 (6), 1900243.

3. Saleh, F., et al., 2020. Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved animals from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco. Geobios 60, 99–115.

4. Saleh, F., et al., 2020. Large trilobites in a stress-free Lower Ordovician environment. Geological Magazine, 1–10.

5. Saleh, F., 2020. Fossil weathering and preparation mimic soft tissues in eocrinoid and somasteroid echinoderms from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco: Microscopy Today 28(1), 24–28.

6. Saleh, F., et al., 2020, Taphonomic bias in exceptionally preserved biotas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 529, 115873.

7. Saleh, F., et al., 2019. Orbital control on exceptional fossil preservation. Geology 47(2), 103–106.

8. Lefebvre, B., et al., 2019. Exceptionally preserved soft parts in fossils from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco clarify stylophoran affinities within basal deuterostomes. Geobios 52, 27–36.

9. Saleh, F., et al., 2018. Storm-induced community dynamics in the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician, Morocco). Palaios 33(12), 535–541.