I am a full Professor and the Chairperson in Paleontology and Sedimentology at the University of Western Brittany - UBO, Brest (France). I hold a B.Sc. in Sedimentary Geology (1981) from P. Sabatier University, Toulouse (France), a M.Sc. in Geodynamics (1983), a Ph.D. in Stratigraphy (1987), as well as a D.Sc. (Habilitation) in Earth Sciences (2003) from Sorbonne University – UPMC, Paris (France). Before joining academe, I worked over a decade and a half for the oil industry (...)