Prof. Vincent Perrichot, who came to University of Gdańsk thanks to 'Visiting Professors' programme, will give three lectures on palaeoecology and palaeontology! The events will be held on November 9, 16 and 23 at the Faculty of Biology, room C108. 

Details:

•  9.11 at 4 p.m.: The evolution of the ants
• 16.11 at 4 p.m.: Production and preservation of plant resins through time
• 23.11 at 4 p.m.: Insect deposits from France, from Carboniferous to Miocene

Language: English

About the lecturer: 

Museum of Berlin as a Humboldt research fellow, working on the paleoecology of resin-producing forests through the study of arthropods and microorganisms fossilized in amber. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Paleontological Institute of the University of Kansas, where he worked on the systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography of hymenopteran insects from various Mesozoic and Cenozoic ambers. In 2009 he returned to the University of Rennes as a full time assistant professor. Since then he has been studying the paleobiota and paleoenvironments of various Mesozoic and Cenozoic ambers worldwide, with a particular focus on the evolutionary history of the ants. In parallel with his main research topic on the evolution of insects, he is studying modern resin-producing forests in order to understand the processes involved in the trapping of organisms by tree resins.