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Nasrrddine Youbi was born in Fez (Morocco) on November 25, 1959. He is a Professor at the Geology Department of Faculty of Sciences-Semlalia of Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh since 1987 where he obtained his PhD thesis in Volcanology-Geochemistry in 1998. He served as Head of Department of Geology from 2014 to 2017. He was twice (2008-2014) an expert with the Scientific Committees of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRST) in Rabat. He is also an expert with the French-Moroccan Joint Committee of Hubert Curien Toubkal Program. Nasrrddine Youbi is currently Deputy Head of the Geology Department and Director of the Geosciences, Georesources and Geohazards Laboratory where he develops with his Colleagues and PhD students research in petrology, high level geochemistry by applying several techniques derived from geochronology, isotopic geology, elementary geochemistry, petrology. His research focuses mainly on the large igneous provinces ("The Large Igneous Provinces, LIPs") such as the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, (CAMP) of Morocco, Portugal and USA, the Precambrian of Anti-Atlas, the Moroccan Sahara and Northern Mauritania and the Permo-Carboniferous, Jurassic-Cretaceous and Neogene-Quaternary volcanisms of Morocco. He participated with the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research of France (BRGM) within the framework of the National Program of Geological Mapping (PNCG) in the elaboration of six geological maps in the Moroccan Meseta and Anti-Atlas. Nasrrddine Youbi supervised several PhD thesis in Morocco and abroad (USA, France, Italy and Portugal). He is the author of a hundred publications indexed on the ISI and Scopus bibliographic database, including an article published in 2017 in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications. He is ranked first on the “top 15” of the most prolific Moroccan researchers in publications in the field Sciences of Earth and Universe on the Scopus database (see URL link http: //barometre.imist .ma; IMIST investigation by CNRST). He was awarded by the Prize for Excellence in Geoscience Research, a prize awarded to the best Moroccan researchers who were distinguished by the quality, volume and number of citation of their scientific production, listed by the Publisher Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science Group) during the last 5 years (2014-2018).