Background
Laurin, Michel was born on October 26, 1965 in St.Jerome, Canada. Son of Roger and Carmelle (Auger) Laurin.
Laurin, Michel was born on October 26, 1965 in St.Jerome, Canada. Son of Roger and Carmelle (Auger) Laurin.
Bachelor of Science, University Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1988. Master of Science, University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1994.
PdF., University California, Berkeley, 1996.
He has also made important contributions to the literature on phylogenetic nomenclature. His 1991 review of diapsid phylogeny provided the broadest review of the subject up to that date. In 1995, Laurin and Reisz coauthored a widely cited article providing evidence that the synapsids are the sister group of all other amniotes.
He later worked on untangling the phylogeny of the Stegocephalia, a group with a notoriously difficult phylogeny.
He later moved to France. Since 1998, he has been a National Center for Scientific Research researcher at the Muséum national d"Histoire naturelle.
He is an editor-in-chief of Comptes Rendus Palevol, a journal in the Comptes rendus de l"Académie des Sciences family, as well as being a reviewing editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. He has been a key contributor to the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature, where he served as president 2008–2009 and as secretary 2010–2011.
Graduate student representative Biology Executive Committee of University of Toronto, Mississauga, 1991, chair Biology Union of Graduate students, Mississauga, 1991. Member Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Society of Systematic Biology.
Married Patricia Lai, July 30, 1994.