Abderrazak El Albani

Abderrazak El Albani is a Moroccan sedimentologist, professor at University of Poitiers at the Hydrasa laboratory (IC2MP - CNRS). He is known for describing the "Francevillian Biota" from the Paleoproterozoic of Gabon, which he suggests represents the oldest known multicellular organisms, though this claim has been questioned by other authors.

Biography Moroccan geologist, born in Marrakesh, he studied at the University of Lille, from which he received a doctorate after defending a thesis on geology and sedimentary geochemistry. Between 1996 and 1998, he spent a postdoctoral period at the University of Kiel, in Germany. He published several scientific articles on Paleo-environments, Geobiology and Diagenesis in sedimentary basins. He then joined the Hydrasa laboratory (University of Poitiers – CNRS) in 1999. He was appointed Professor in 2010.