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<\/div>\r\nLeyla is interested in plant evolution and biology through time. She is both a botanist (Bachelor of Science in plant science from the University of Edinburgh, UK) and a palaeobotanist (PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK), with particular interest in the evolutionary history and biology of gymnosperms such as the conifers. She also has a research master\u2019s degree (awarded by Silsoe College at Cranfield University, UK) on harvesting tea in Africa \u2014 mostly because she thought it sounded like fun and would have better weather than research in Scotland, both of which turned out to be true. Subsequently, she worked as a scientist at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, before plunging into her PhD.\r\n\r\nLeyla became a Dorothea Schl\u00f6zer postdoctoral fellow at the Georg-August University of G\u00f6ttingen in Germany, and now she is a researcher there. Her current focus is on trying to understand how and why plants produce resin and how this relates to the distribution of amber deposits.\r\n\r\nLeyla rather enjoys being out of the office, whether in the lab dissolving rocks and other things, or better yet in the field, where she can see some of the world\u2019s most exceptional fossils, interesting geological features and rarest plants.\r\n\r\n

Contact Details:<\/h2>\r\n\r\nDr. Leyla J. Seyfullah, Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen, Courant Research Centre Geobiology, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany.","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?tag=leyla-j-seyfullah","name":"Leyla J. Seyfullah","slug":"leyla-j-seyfullah","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}