Olivier Lambert

Since 2013, Olivier works as a permanent researcher in vertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS). His scientific collaborations include the study of fossil cetaceans from many areas of the world, with a special emphasis on the Neogene of the North Sea and the Paleogene and Neogene of the southeastern Pacific.

To investigate the evolution of cetaceans and other marine tetrapods, Olivier's research includes palaeontological fieldwork and collection studies. His main fields of expertise are systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, palaeoecology and taphonomy.

Before being hired as a permanent staff of the RBINS, Olivier studied geology at the UCLouvain, then undertook a PhD thesis on the cetaceans from the Miocene of the southern North Sea at the ULB/RBINS, followed by several postdocs at the RBINS and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris).