CURRICULUM VITAE

I- Personal Data

1- First name: Amr Middle names: Said Abdel Rahman Family name: Deaf

2- Nationality: Egyptian

3- Birthday: December 18, 1975

4- Place of birthday: Beni Sueif, Egypt

5- Gender: Male

6- Military status: Exempted

7- Current qualification: PhD in Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate (Palynostratigraphy, Palaeoclimate, Palaeoenvironment, and Hydrocarbon Potential), National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton, UK, 2010.

8- Occupation: Lecturer at Department of Geology, Faculty of Science,

Assiut University, Egypt.

II- Conferences

Attended several international conferences and courses on geology such as:

1- Symposium on “The Geology and the Development of Arid Areas”, 3 May 1998, Assiut-Egypt.

2- The First International Conference on the Geology of Africa, 23-25 November 1999, Assiut –Egypt.

3- Symposium on “Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Events from North Africa to the Middle East”, 25 November 1999, Assiut-Egypt.

4- The Second International Conference on the Geology of Africa, 28-30 October 2001, Assiut –Egypt.

5- The GSE Golden Jubilee Celebration and the 40th Annual Meeting, 14-17 December 2002, Cairo-Egypt.

6- The Fifth International Conference on the Geology of the Middle East, 20-21 January 2003, Cairo-Egypt.

7- The Third Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Egypt, 29 Marsh 2003, Cairo-Egypt.

8- The Third International Conference on the Geology of Africa, 7-9 December 2003, Assiut –Egypt.

9- The 4th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Egypt, 2 April 2004, Cairo-Egypt.

10- The 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Geological Society of Egypt (GSE), 28-29 November 2004, Cairo-Egypt.

11- The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) Annual Meeting, 16th Nov., 2005 UCL, London-UK.

12- The Advanced Course in Jurassic-Cretaceous-Cenozoic Organic-Walled Dinoflagellate Cysts, July 13-17, 2006, Urbino-Italy.

13- The Urbino Summer School in Palaeoclimatology,Dynamics and Evolution of Cenozoic Climate, July 19-August 2, 2006, Urbino-Italy.

14- The TMS Annual Meeting (palynology group), 7th May, 2008, University of Birmingham, Birmingham-UK.

15- The 12th International Palynological Congress and 8th International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference, 30th August-5th September 2008, Bonn-Germany.

16- The International Conference on Planet Earth: Earth Sciences and Development of Civilization in Major River Basins, 11-13th October 2010, Luxor-Egypt.

17- The 3rd Scientific Conference for Young Researchers: Basic Science and Technology, 19-20th April 2011, Assiut-Egypt.

18- The 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the GSE, 9-10 December 2012, Cairo-Egypt.

19- The 13th Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society of Egypt, 12 June 2013, Cairo-Egypt.

III- Education

- PhD in Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate (Palynostratigraphy, Palaeoclimate, Palaeoenvironment, and Hydrocarbon Potential), National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton, UK, 2010.

- MSc in Biostratigraphy (Palynology), Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt, 2003.

- BSc in Geology (Special), Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt, 1997.

IV- Research Interest

- Palynology (biostratigraphy, palaeoclimate, and depositional palaeoenvironments).

- Hydrocarbon Source Rock Evaluation (organic geochemical analyses, thermal maturation analyses, and burial history reconstruction).

V- Membership

1- GSE (Geological Society of Egypt).

2- PSE (Palaeontological Society of Egypt).

3- TMS (The Micropalaeontological Society of London)

4- AASP (American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists)

5- AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)

VI- Publications

1- Soliman, H. A., Mahmoud, M. S. and Deaf, A. S. (2002): Lower Cretaceous Palynofloras from the Matruh Basin Sequence, north Western Desert. 40th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Egypt, 14-17 December, 2002, Cairo-Egypt. (Abstract)

2- Deaf, A. S. (2003): Palynological Studies on Some Cretaceous Rocks in northern Egypt. M.Sc. thesis, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt.

3- Mahmoud, M. S., Soliman, H. A. and Deaf, A. S. (2003): Palaeoecological Significance of Pteridophyte-Arucaroid Acme in the Lower Cretaceous Sequence of the Siqeifa 1-x Borehole, north Western Egypt. The Third International Conference on the Geology of Africa, 7-9 December, 2003, Assiut-Egypt, v. (2), p. 409-426.

4- Mahmoud, M. S. and Deaf, A. S. (2005): Palynostratigraphy and Palynozonation for the Lower Cretaceous Succession Penetrated in Siqeifa 1-X borehole, north Western Desert, Egypt. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 113 (2), p. 203-221.

5- Mahmoud, M. S., Soliman, H. A. and Deaf, A. S. (2007): Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) palynology of the Kabrit-1 borehole, onshore Northern Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Revista Española de Micropaleontologia, v. 39 (3), p. 169-187.

6- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C. and Marshall, J. E. A. (2008): Palynostratigraphy, palynofacies analysis and depositional environments of clastic lower Cretaceous sediments from the northern Western Desert, Egypt. The 12th International Palynological Congress and 8th International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference, August 30-September 5, 2008, Bonn-Germany. (Abstract)

7- Mertens, K. N., Verhoeven, K., Verleye, T., Louwye, S., Amorim, A., Ribeiro, S., Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., Schepper, S., Gonzلlez, C., Kodrans-Nsiah, M., Vernal, A., Henry, M., Radi, T., Dybkjaer, K., Poulsen, N. E., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Chitolie, J., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Londeix, L., Turon, J.-L. , Marret, F., Matthiessen, J., McCarthy, F. M. G., Prasad, V., Pospelova, V., Kyffin Hughes, J. E., Riding, J. B., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Welters, N., Sinclair, N., Thun, C., Soliman, A., Nieuwenhove, N., Vink, A. and Young, M. (2009): Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: The Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 157, p. 238-252.

8- Deaf, A. S. (2009): Palynology, palynofacies and hydrocarbon potential of the Cretaceous rocks of northern Egypt. PhD thesis, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK

9- Tchouatcha, M. S., Njiké, N. P. R., Mahmoud, M. S., Deaf, A. S., and Ekodeck, G. E. (2010): Existence of “late continental” deposits in the Mbere and Djerem sedimentary basins (North Cameroon): Palynological and stratigraphic evidence. Journal of Geology and Mining Research, v. 2 (6), p. 159-169.

10- Mohamed, M. A. and Deaf, A. S. (2011): Basin evaluation for hydrocarbon potential using integrated geochemical, physical, and palynological methods: A review article. The 3rd Scientific Conference for Young Researchers: Basic Science and Technology, 19-20 April 2011, Assiut-Egypt. (Abstract)

11- El-Soughier, M. I., Deaf, A. S., and Mahmoud, M. S. (2013): Palynostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Cretaceous palynomorphs in the Qattara Rim-1X well, North Western Desert, Egypt. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, DOI 10.1007/s12517-013-0954-x.

12- Alaug, A. S., Mahmoud, M. S., Deaf, A. S., and Al-Ameri, Th. K. (2013): Palynology, organic geochemical analyses, and hydrocarbon potential of some Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous rocks, the Sabatayn-1 well, Central Yemen. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, DOI 10.1007/s12517-013-0961-y.

13- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., and Marshall, J. E. A. (2013): Cretaceous (Albian-early? Santonian) palynology and stratigraphy of the Abu Tunis 1x borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt. Palynology (in press).

14- Deaf, A. S. (2013): Palynological studies of a lower Cretaceous sequence from central Matruh Basin, northern Western Egypt with emphasis on first Egyptian quantitative early Cretaceous palynofloral distributions in the pre-Albian Dicheiropollis/Afropollis Phytogeographic Province. To be submitted to The Seventh International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA), 24-26 November, 2013, Assiut-Egypt. (In prep.)

15- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., and Marshall, J. E. A. (in prep.): Early Cretaceous palynostratigraphy of the Abu Tunis 1x borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt: emphasis of possible palaeoclimatic effect on the range of Dicheiropollis etruscus in North Africa. To be submitted soon to Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

16- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., and Marshall, J. E. A. (in prep.): Quantitative palynofacies analysis, depositional palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimate of the Cretaceous rocks in the Abu Tunis 1x borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt. To be submitted to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

17- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., and Marshall, J. E. A. (in prep.): Palynofacies analysis, thermal maturation, burial history reconstruction, and source rock evaluation of the Cretaceous successions in the Abu Tunis 1x borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt. To be submitted to Marine and Petroleum Geology.

18- Deaf, A. S., Harding, I. C., and Marshall, J. E. A. (in prep.): Palynostratigraphy, palynofacies analysis, and depositional palaeoenvironments of some middle Cretaceous rocks of the BB80-1 borehole, offshore Western Gulf of Suez, Egypt. To be submitted to Journal of Micropalaeontology.

19- Alaug, A. S., Deaf, A. S., Mahmoud, M. S., and Al-Ameri, Th. K. (in prep.): Palynology, palynofacies and organic geochemical studies of the Rajwan-1 well, Block 75, Marib-Shabwah Basin,Central Yemen. To be submitted to Marine and Petroleum Geology.

VII- Institute Responsibilities

1- Supervisor member of the Geology Department's Library

2- Secretary of the conference, abstract volume editor & Geology Department coordinator for the Third Scientific Conference for Young Researchers – Basic Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt, April 19-20, 2011

3- Student Union Advisor for the Scientific Committee, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

4- Geology Department assistant coordinator for the Department’s Higher Education Programs, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

5- Geology Department coordinator for the Department’s Undergraduate Credit Hour System Program, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

6- Secretary member of the Seventh International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA), 24-26 November, 2013, Assiut-Egypt.

7- Secretary of the Geology Department Council

8- Faculty of Science coordinator at the International Project “Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes” (AHELO)

9- Executive director of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Unit, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

VIII- Prizes

Awarded the “Best Research Article Prize” in Palaeontology for the paper tilted “Lower Cretaceous Palynofloras from the Matruh Basin Sequence, north Western Egypt” by (H. A. Soliman, M. S. Mahmoud and A. S. Deaf) from the (The Geological Society of Egypt) in the 40th Annual Meeting, 14-17 December, 2002, Cairo-Egypt.

Hobbies

Reading, photography, and volunteer work


Referees for academic posts

Prof. John Marshall

Capacity in which known to me: ex PhD supervisor

School of Ocean & Earth Science,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton,
University of Southampton,
European Way,
Southampton, SO14 3ZH

E-mail:

Tel.: +44 (0)23 8059 2015 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3052

Dr. Ian C. Harding
Capacity in which known to me: ex PhD supervisor

School of Ocean & Earth Science,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton,
University of Southampton,
European Way,
Southampton, SO14 3ZH
E-mail:

Tel.: +44 (0)23 80592071 Fax: +44 (0)23 80593052

Prof. Dr. Magdy S. Mahmoud

Capacity in which known to me: ex MSc supervisor

Geology Department

Faculty of Science

Assiut University

Assiut, P.O. Box 71516

Egypt

E-mail:

Tel.: +20 (0)88 241 2304 Fax: +20 (0)88 234 2708

Contact

Geology Department

Faculty of Science

Assiut University

Assiut, P.O. Box 71516

Egypt

E-mail: ;

Mob.: +20 01090062757 Off.: +20 (0)88 241 2299 Fax: +20 (0)88 234 2708

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