Personal Information

 Professor

Department of  Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology

Faculty of Earth Sciences

Contact Information

Phone: 64306

Email: mgameil@yahoo.com

Prof. Mohammad Gameil Sayed

 Professor

Profile

Prof. Mohammad Gameil M. Sayed got his Ph. D. from Cairo University according to a channel system program with Cologne University, Germany under the auspices of the German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD). He works as a permanent professor of Paleontology at Cairo University. He worked for six years in the United Arab Emirates University from 1998-2004. At the moment he is working as a professor of Paleontology at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Education

  • 1995

    Doctorate degree from Geology Department - Institute of Paleontology GermanyFaculty of Science at Cairo University- Faculty of Natural Sciences at Cologne University, Cairo University- Cologne University, Cairo, مصــــــــر

Employment

  • 2011-حاليا

    Professor, KAU University, Faculty of Earth Science, Department of Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

taxonomic studies on ancient and modern corals and the environmental facors affecting their distribution. Besides the interest in the taxonomy of other fossil groups of bivalves, gastropods, pelecypods, cephalopods, echinoids and foraminifers.

Scientific interests

Writing books in the arabic language, running field trips to collect fossil specimens that are used in teaching process as well as supplying the Geology Museum.

Courses

Introduction to Paleontology EPS

Areas of expertise