Wolfson Alumnus receives Science and Sustainability Award

The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, 22 February at the Ambassador’s residence in Cairo, with HMA Gareth Bayley, British Ambassador to Egypt and Elizabeth White, Director of the British Council, hosting the event.

Sallam is an Egyptian palaeontologist, who received his DPhil from Wolfson College in 2010. He is also the founder of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Palaeontology Center (MUVP-C), the first vertebrate palaeontology programme in the Middle East. He led the discovery and description of Mansourasaurus shahinae, a species of sauropod dinosaur from Egypt, which has improved understanding of the prehistory of Africa during the latest Cretaceous period.

His work has helped popularise palaeontology in Egypt. Sallam is now an associate professor at School of Sciences and Engineering, American University in Cairo and Department of Geology, Mansoura University, Egypt.