Dr. Salam, Professor of Paleontology at the American University in Cairo, receives the UK 2022 Alumni Award in Science and Sustainability
Dr. Hisham Salam, Professor Vertebrate Paleontology at the American University in Cairo
for the UK Alumni Award
in Science and Sustainability
and Ph.D. from Oxford University, Board Award The British Council for UK Alumni
in Science and Sustainability in a ceremony recently held by the British Embassy. Salam says: “I am honored to receive this award, which is the culmination of all my hard work. I see my success story in leading not only the first vertebrate palaeontology program in Egypt but also in the entire Middle East as an honorable and inspiring success story for future generations.” The British Council describes the UK Alumni Award as “a celebration of higher education in the UK and the achievements of alumni of UK universities around the world.”
Salam, who is the founder of the Mansoura University Center for Vertebrate Fossils, has led a team of Salam Lab researchers over the past years as they have been able to discover and document ancient prehistoric life in Egypt. Salam recently led a team of researchers from the Salam Lab group in publishing new research in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology documenting the discovery of the oldest fossil ancestors of Egyptian cobras in Fayoum dating back to 255 Million years ago, and the research also recorded for the first time a type of legless lizard of the same age and region.
Last year, Salam led a team of Egyptian and international researchers to discover one of the most important discoveries that Egypt witnessed, a new amphibious whale, Phiomecetus anubis, in the Fayoum desert in Egypt. Salam participated in the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Journal. Society B Biological Sciences about that discovery.
in January
, Salam and his team from Mansoura University discovered a dinosaur skeleton in the Dakhla Oasis called “Mansurasaurus”. Salam received his bachelor’s degree in 1997 from the Department of Geology at Mansoura University in Egypt, then he obtained his PhD in 2010 from Oxford University, United Kingdom. Salam was a visiting researcher from 2017 to 2017 in Stony Brook University, Ohio University, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Duke University, USA. Salam founded the Mansoura University Center for Vertebrate Fossils, which is the only center in the Middle East that combines research, awareness and attempts to preserve the natural heritage of fossils. in Science and Sustainability at a ceremony recently held by the British Embassy. Salam says: “I am honored to receive this award, which is the culmination of all my hard work. I see my success story in leading not only the first vertebrate palaeontology program in Egypt but also in the entire Middle East as an honorable and inspiring success story for future generations.” The British Council describes the UK Alumni Award as “a celebration of higher education in the UK and the achievements of alumni of UK universities around the world.”
Salam, who is the founder of the Mansoura University Center for Vertebrate Fossils, has led a team of Salam Lab researchers over the past years as they have been able to discover and document ancient prehistoric life in Egypt. Salam recently led a team of researchers from the Salam Lab group in publishing new research in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology documenting the discovery of the oldest fossil ancestors of Egyptian cobras in Fayoum dating back to 255 Million years ago, and the research also recorded for the first time a type of legless lizard of the same age and region.
Last year, Salam led a team of Egyptian and international researchers to discover one of the most important discoveries that Egypt witnessed, a new amphibious whale, Phiomecetus anubis, in the Fayoum desert in Egypt. Salam participated in the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Journal. Society B Biological Sciences about that discovery.
in January
, Salam and his team from Mansoura University discovered a dinosaur skeleton in the Dakhla Oasis called “Mansurasaurus”. Salam received his bachelor’s degree in 1997 from the Department of Geology at Mansoura University in Egypt, then he obtained his PhD in 2010 from Oxford University, United Kingdom. Salam was a visiting researcher from 2017 to 2017 in Stony Brook University, Ohio University, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Duke University, USA. Salam founded the Mansoura University Center for Vertebrate Excavations, which is the only center in the Middle East that combines research, awareness and attempts to preserve the natural heritage of fossils.
