Wafa Alhalabi

I was born in Damascus, Syria, earned my bachelors degree in biology from the University of Damascus in 2004. In 2008, I completed my masters degree in Environmental Studies through a collaborative program between the University of Damascus and the University of Poitiers in France. With extensive experience as an environmental consultant working across various Arabic and African countries, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming a paleontologist in 2021. I received my PhD in Paleontology from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, where my doctoral research focused on a comprehensive examination of the appendicular skeleton characters used in early dinosaur phylogenies. Currently, I am concentrating on the study of Cretaceous and Cenozoic vertebrate fossils from Syria, aiming to highlight the significance of Syrian fossils and, more broadly, the vertebrate fossils of the Arabian Platform to the global scientific community. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)