Principal Investigator

Frans Van Buchem

Professor of Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests: Climate change, Sea Level Fluctuations, Arabian Plate

Research Scientist

Amir Kalifi

Research Scientist

Research Interests: sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, Tectono-stratigraphy, Basin analysis

Research Staff

Yuriy Kaprielov

Geoscience Data Specialist

Research Interests: data engineering, ML in Geoscience

Post-doctoral fellow

Jihede Haj Messaoud

Cyclostratigraphy and Micropaleontology

Research Interests: earth’s orbit climate change and cyclostratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoclimatology, carbon isotopes stratigraphy and geochronology

Najeh Ben Chaabane

Post-doctoral Felow

Research Interests: sedimentology, stratigraphic architecture, sequence stratigraphy, sea-level fluctuation

Ph.D. Student

Ali Alibrahim

PhD Student

Research Interests: Foraminiferal micropaleontology, Paleonceanography, Paleoclimatology

Giacomo Losi

PhD Student

Research Interests: Quaternary Geology, Remote Sensing, sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Archeology

Maria Alejandra Ardila Sanchez

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: unconventional reservoirs, organic-rich mudrocks, carbonate rocks

Nicolas Boehm

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, rock mechanics, petrophysics, geo models

Sayed Hassan Alsaihati

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: carbonate sequence stratigraphy, sea-level fluctuation, reservoir heterogeneity, jurassic, tuwaiq mountain sequence

Tojo Chirakal

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: carbonate geology, facies & microfacies analysis, sequence stratigraphy, diagenesis

Wesam Abu Laila

PhD Student

Research Interests: Oyster Mounts, Organic-rich deposits

Master Students

Abdulrahman Alsuliman

Master Student

Research Interests: Seismic Sequence Statigraphy

Alejandro Meza Pemberti

Master Student

Research Interests: geomechanics, Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, unconventional reservoirs

Hamzah Sait

Master Student

Research Interests: Seismic Sequence Statigraphy, Interpretation, Geomodeling

Mayra Grateron

Master Student

Research Interests: Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Petroleum Geology

Seastar Office

Adzlina Abdullah

Administrative Assistant

Alumni

Juan Andrade

Masters student

Research Interests: CO2 geological storage, sedimentology, carbonate geology, Geochemistry, geomechanics

Maimoona Jehangir

Administrative Assistant

Mohammed Aldossary

Masters Students

Research Interests: Carbonate Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, Reservoir Chrachterization

Salvador Rojas Lequerica

Masters Student

Research Interests: Asphaltites, Basin Modeling, sequence stratigraphy, Unconventional, Geochemistry