Vivian de Buffrénil

Vivian de Buffrénil is a French histologist and paleobiologist who has worked at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1982 to 2021. His doctorate and his doctorat d'état (1990), a diploma now replaced by the habilitation, were supervised by Armand de Ricqlès.

As a recognized leader in bone histology, he evaluates drafts regularly for several journals and serves on the editorial board (as Reviewing Editor) of the Comptes Rendus Palevol of the Académie des sciences (France). On April 23, 2025, his work had been cited 5835 times in scholarly works, according to Google Scholar.