Dr. habil. Haytham El Atfy

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeology,Palaeontology
KeywordsEcosystem, Palynology, Vegetation, Climate, Environment
Honours and awards

2020: Egyptian Award of Excellence نوط الامتياز من الطبقة الأولى من السيد رئيس جمهورية مصر العربية

2019: Egyptian State Incentive Award

2019: Mansoura University Incentive Award

2018: Alan Higgins Award for Applied Micropalaeontology 2018, The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), UK

2015: Prize of the Best Paper in the Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society of Egypt

2014: DFG - Bernd Rendel-Prize 2014 for best young scientist in Germany

2013: Award to attend the 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference (held in Padua, Italy), The Micropalaentological Society (TMS)

2012: Award to attend the IPC XIII International Congress (held in Tokyo, Japan), International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS)

2010: Prize of the Best MSc. Thesis in Basic Sciences, Mansoura University

2008: Prize of the Best Paper in the Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society of Egypt

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityMünster
InstitutionUniversität Münster
InstituteForschungsstelle für Paläobotanik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Madelaine BöhmeFachbereich Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2019

Programme(s)

2019Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020El Atfy, H., Jasper, A. & Uhl, D. A new record of Paradoxopteris stromeri Hirmer 1927 (Monilophyta, incertae sedis) from the Cenomanian of Sinai, Egypt. . In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology , 2020, -104148
2019El Beialy, S.Y., Head, M.J., El Atfy, H., El Khoriby, E.M.: Dinoflagellate cyst evidence for the age and palaeoenvironments of the Upper Eocene–Oligocene Dabaa Formation, Qattara Depression, north Western Desert, Egypt. In: Palynology, 2019, 268-291
2019El Atfy, H., Mostafa, A., Maher, A., Mahfouz, K., Hosny, A. Early Cretaceous biostratigraphy and palaeoenviornment of the northern Western Desert, Egypt: an integrated palynological and micropalaeontological approach. In: Palaeontographica Abteilung B , 2019, 103-132
2019El Atfy, H., Ghassal, B., Maher, A., Hosny, A., Mostafa, A., Littke, R. Palynological and organic geochemical studies of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous successions, Western Desert, Egypt: Implications for paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon source rock potential. In: International Journal of Coal Geology , 2019, 103207
2019El Atfy, H., Havlik, P., Krüger, P.S., Manfroi, J., Jasper, A. & Uhl, D. Pre-Quaternary wood decay ‘caught in the act’ by fire – examples of plant-microbe-interactions preserved in charcoal from clastic sediments. In: Historical Biology , 2019, 952-961
2019El Atfy, H., Anan, A., Jasper, A. & Uhl, D. Repeated occurrence of palaeo-wildfires during deposition of the Bahariya Formation (early Cenomanian) of Egypt. In: Journal of Palaeogeography , 2019, 28