Antoine Bercovici, PhD

Dr. Antoine Bercovici is a palynologist and sedimentologist who studies mass extinction events. He is interested in understanding the processes in which terrestrial plant ecosystems recover from catastrophic events such as during the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction (end of the age of non-avian dinosaurs), as well as during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (Earth's worst-ever). Under the microscope, he unravels some of the smallest of all fossils (pollen and spores) to paint the evolution and dynamics of ancient forests and derive predictive models that can be applied to better understand today's biodiversity crisis.

Antoine completed a degree in systematics, evolution and paleontology at Sorbonne Université and the National museum of Natural History in Paris, followed by a PhD in Sedimentology at the University of Rennes 1 in France. He continued as a postdoctoral scientist at the China University of Geoscience (Wuhan, China), at Lund University (Sweden), at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC), and at the University of Nottingham (UK).

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