Revealing fossil anatomies and preservation pathways using advanced imaging techniques
The invasion of land by animals, followed by the establishment of complex continental ecosystems, is a critical event in the history of life on our planet. Nonetheless, little is known about most of the pivotal morphological and physiological adaptations imposed […]
Even the most spectacularly preserved fossils, with soft tissues ‘petrified’ as the product of a complex interplay of biological and geological processes, have experienced alterations that distort palaeontological reconstructions. Many works have now emphasized the need to precisely constrain these […]
A paper long in the making, which I led while a postdoc at SOLEIL and IPANEMA, is finally published today in the journal Geology. In this article, I investigated exceptional preservation through phosphatization from a fossil perspective. Soft-tissue phosphatization, i.e., […]
In a paper led by Farid Saleh (University of Lyon) and published this month in Geobios, we provide insights into soft tissue taphonomy in the Fezouata Shale based on a detailed sedimentological investigation constraining the facies in which exceptional preservation […]
In a paper published today in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, to which I collaborated while a postdoc in IPANEMA, we developed a robust framework and software implementation for fast speciation mapping. One of the greatest benefits of synchrotron radiation […]
A new paper, to which I collaborated while a postdoc in IPANEMA, is published Open Access today. Using an advanced synchrotron imaging method called Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography our international team of scientists from Brazil, France and Switzerland has obtained […]
Even the most spectacularly preserved fossils, with soft tissues ‘petrified’ as the product of a complex interplay of biological and geological processes, have experienced alterations that distort palaeontological reconstructions. Many works have now emphasized the need to precisely constrain these […]
In view of the current situation, Teaching must be adapted to distance learning. While lectures can be delivered online via live or recorded videos, labs often have to be completely rethought. Yet they can be almost directly transposed in the […]
The project I submitted to the SNSF under the “Spark rapid funding of unconventional ideas” scheme (July 2019 call) got funded today! This grant will employ for me for 1 year, still at University of Lausanne, starting December 1st, 2019. […]
Initiated in collaboration with Linda Lagebro (Uppsala University, Sweden) during our respective PhD projects, a paper describing eurypterids (‘sea scorpions’) from the Upper Devonian aquatic continental ecosystem of Strud, Belgium, is finally published this week in Geological Magazine. The material […]