Nizar Ibrahim

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Nizar Ibrahim
Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology, Anatomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Portsmouth

Nizar Ibrahim (born in 1982) is a German-Moroccan

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.[6][7] Ibrahim also has interests in bioinformatics and contributed to the NSF-funded Phenoscape project.[8] He regularly engages with the public and is a speaker with the National Geographic Speakers Bureau.[9][10][11]

S. aegyptiacus skeletal reconstruction in swimming posture (prior to the discovery of the tail fin)

Biography

Youth and education

Nizar Ibrahim was born on 8 September 1982 in West Berlin, West Germany.[12] He has German and Moroccan ancestry, with his grandfather being the third Prime Minister of Morocco, Abdallah Ibrahim.[13] Since his childhood, he has been very enthusiastic about animals and their diversity, anatomy, and evolution. He also loved fiction and nonfiction stories of adventures around the world. At 5 years old, he decided that he was going to become a paleontologist while reading a book on dinosaurs.[14]

He obtained a Bachelor of science in

School of Medicine and Medical Science. He carried out his postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago for four years.[13]

Career

He was an assistant professor at the

TED fellow in 2015, which makes him the "first paleontologist in the history of the program".[16]

Awards and recognition

Selected publications

  • Ibrahim, Nizar; et al. (26 May 2010). "A New Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco". PLOS ONE. 5 (5): e10875.
    PMID 20520782
    .
  • Ibrahim, Nizar;
    S2CID 13185739
    .
  • Ibrahim, Nizar; Varricchio, David J.;
    PMID 24603467
    .
  • Ibrahim, Nizar; Sereno, Paul C.; et al. (26 September 2014). "Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur" (PDF). Science. 345 (6204): 1613–1616.
    S2CID 34421257
    .
  • Ibrahim, Nizar; Sasso, C. Dal; et al. (2016). "Evidence of a derived titanosaurian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) in the "Kem Kem beds" of Morocco, with comments on sauropod paleoecology in the Cretaceous of Africa". Cretaceous Period: Biotic Diversity and Biogeography: 149–159.
  • Ibrahim, Nizar; Sereno, Paul C.; et al. (21 April 2020). "Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco". ZooKeys (928): 1–216.
    PMID 32362741
    .

References

  1. ^ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/tenacious-to-the-bone
  2. ^ "Dr Nizar Ibrahim".
  3. ^ "Three New Species of Flying Reptiles Discovered – Pterosaurs That Inhabited the Sahara 100 Million Years Ago". SciTechDaily. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  4. ^ Owen, James (28 May 2010). "New Giant Flying Reptile Found; Hunted on Foot?". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  5. ^ "The dinosaur hunter: TED Fellow Nizar Ibrahim searches for lost worlds". TED Blog. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. S2CID 34421257
    .
  7. S2CID 216650535
    .
  8. ^ "Acknowledgments - phenoscape". wiki.phenoscape.org.
  9. ^ "Speakers Bureau". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Nizar Ibrahim - Global Philanthropy Forum". philanthropyforum.org. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016.
  11. ^ Trask, Nicole (29 October 2018). "Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim - The perfect adventure". MonteCristo Magazine. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  12. ^ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/tenacious-to-the-bone
  13. ^ a b c d Ibrahim, Nizar (30 April 2020). "نزار إبراهيم: المغرب جنة الحفريات بالعالم .. و"كم كم" أخطر مكان" [Nizar Ibrahim: Morocco is a paradise of fossils in the world ... and "Kem Kem" is the most dangerous place] (Interview) (in Arabic). Interviewed by youssef lakhder. Hespress.
  14. ^ Khatla, Kenza (7 May 2020). "Nizar Ibrahim raconte la découverte du Spinoraure marocain". Medias24 (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Palaeontologists reveal 'the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth'". www.port.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  16. ^ a b Jiang, Kevin (22 December 2014). "Nizar Ibrahim named 2015 TED Fellow". Uchicago News. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  17. ^ "Postdoctoral scholar Nizar Ibrahim joins ranks of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers". Uchicago news. 16 May 2014.
  18. ^ "Nizar Ibrahim". Crain's Chicago Business. 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  19. ^ Greshko, Michael. "These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019.

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