Aymen Said joined the Simula team in September 2011 as a postdoctoral fellow.

He received his PhD and his Master degree in Geosciences from the University of Toulouse and his Engineer’s degree in Georesources and Environment from the University of Sfax.

He is a member of the Computational Geoscience group and he is involved in the 5D PaleoEarth project in collaboration with Statoil.

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Current Research activities

• Plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents and changing distribution of land and sea during the past 500 million years.

• Obtaining the tightest pre-opening reconstruction of the South and Equatorial Atlantic Oceans taking into account geological and geophysical constraints.

• Quantification of uncertainties related to plate reconstruction models.

Previous Research activities

• Determination of the crustal geometry, kinematic history and active tectonics of the Southern Tunisian Atlas, based on acquisition and analysis of field data
  

(geology, geomorphology and paleoseismology), interpretation of satellite images, dating of morphological markers offset by active faults, seismic interpretation

and construction of balanced cross-sections.

• Study of the provenance of middle Eocene to early Miocene sedimentary rocks cropping out in the Himalayan foreland basin by examining the mineralogy, major and trace