IAS Regional Correspondents are IAS Members who have volunteered to act as a representative between sedimentologists in their host region and the IAS. Each region (country, country region) with more than 5 members or regions indicated by the IAS Bureau can have a Regional Correspondent, appointed by the IAS President after recommendation by the Bureau in consultation with the sedimentology society / association / group of the region concerned.
Regional Correspondent tasks include:
- They inform the General Secretary of sedimentological activities within their particular country
- They assist the IAS society in recruiting members within their particular country
The mandate of the Regional Correspondents terminates at each 4-Yearly General Assembly. Regional Correspondents are eligible for reappointment for only one additional term.
If you know of any sedimentology events going on in your region then please get in touch with your Regional Correspondent and let them know (active members only, through member profile). Similarly, if your region lacks a Regional Correspondent and you would like to propose an IAS Member (Full or Student), or yourself, for this position then please contact the IAS.
Africa
Eric Bokanda Ekoko
Cameroon
Jennifer Agbetsoamedo
Ghana
I am a geoscientist with a strong focus on sedimentary systems, specializing in sedimentary facies analysis and the provenance of siliciclastic rocks. My work centers on reconstructing past depositional environments and evaluating rock evolution through siliciclastic and carbonate diagenesis. I also bring a structured, systems-oriented approach to my work, ensuring processes are organized and operating at optimal efficiency.
Collen-Issia Uahengo
Namibia
Collen-Issia is a geoscientist and lecturer in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Namibia (UNAM). His research interests include stratigraphy, sedimentology, basin analysis, petroleum geoscience, and Precambrian geology, with particular focus on the Nama and Kaoko belts of Namibia.
Andy Green
South Africa
Jennifer Agbetsoamedo
Guinea
I am a geoscientist with a strong focus on sedimentary systems, specializing in sedimentary facies analysis and the provenance of siliciclastic rocks. My work centers on reconstructing past depositional environments and evaluating rock evolution through siliciclastic and carbonate diagenesis. I also bring a structured, systems-oriented approach to my work, ensuring processes are organized and operating at optimal efficiency.
Jennifer Agbetsoamedo
Côte d’Ivoire
I am a geoscientist with a strong focus on sedimentary systems, specializing in sedimentary facies analysis and the provenance of siliciclastic rocks. My work centers on reconstructing past depositional environments and evaluating rock evolution through siliciclastic and carbonate diagenesis. I also bring a structured, systems-oriented approach to my work, ensuring processes are organized and operating at optimal efficiency.
Americas
Manuel Isla
Argentina
I am currently a Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas (CONICET–UNLP, Argentina) and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. My work focuses on the sedimentology and geomorphology of Holocene coastal environments.
Grisel Jimenez Soto
Bolivia
Dr. Grisel Jiménez Soto is a carbonate sedimentologist and reservoir geoscientist working at the interface of academia and industry. Her work focuses on carbonate systems, diagenesis, geological modelling, and the integration of multi-scale subsurface data for improved Earth system understanding.
Mauricio Santos
Brazil
I am a lecturer at UFABC (Brazil). My research interests include fluvial sedimentology, prevegetation fluvial deposits and soft-sediment deformation.
Jon Noad
Canada
After a mixed career in mining (South African gold and platinum), marine geology (submarine cable laying) and oil and gas (24 years in exploration and production geology), I now work as Senior Palaeontologist for Stantec, monitoring construction related excavations for potential fossil discoveries across Western Canada.
Carlos Giraldo Villegas
Colombia
Carlos is a sedimentary geologist specializing in the dynamics and spatiotemporal evolution of siliciclastic sedimentary systems. He has extensive experience in sedimentology, ichnology, and stratigraphy in marine environments, ranging from shallow to deep-sea settings. He is currently a researcher with the GIEV-Cumanday Stratigraphy Research Group, affiliated with the Institute for Stratigraphic Research-IIES at the University of Caldas-Colombia.
Juan Carlos Laya
United States
Grisel Jimenez Soto
Chile
Dr. Grisel Jiménez Soto is a carbonate sedimentologist and reservoir geoscientist working at the interface of academia and industry. Her work focuses on carbonate systems, diagenesis, geological modelling, and the integration of multi-scale subsurface data for improved Earth system understanding.
Grisel Jimenez Soto
Ecuador
Dr. Grisel Jiménez Soto is a carbonate sedimentologist and reservoir geoscientist working at the interface of academia and industry. Her work focuses on carbonate systems, diagenesis, geological modelling, and the integration of multi-scale subsurface data for improved Earth system understanding.
Grisel Jimenez Soto
Peru
Dr. Grisel Jiménez Soto is a carbonate sedimentologist and reservoir geoscientist working at the interface of academia and industry. Her work focuses on carbonate systems, diagenesis, geological modelling, and the integration of multi-scale subsurface data for improved Earth system understanding.
Asia
Rajib Kumar
Bangladesh
I work on Earth Surface Processes Research (currently focusing on how extensional tectonics across the North American Cordillera has shaped the modern landscape and sedimentary systems). Although based in the USA at the moment I am keen to link with sedimentologist colleagues in Bangladesh.
Tiantian Wang
China
I am currently an Associate Professor at China University of Geosciences (Beijing). My research interests are high-precision geochronology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleoclimatology.
Sivaprakasam Vasudevan
India
Onn Crouvi
Israel
Masaki Yamada
Japan
Bekzhan Smagambetov
Kazakhstan
Shama’a Al-Rashidi
Kuwait
Shama’a Zaid Al-Rashidi is a Senior Geologist at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), specializing in reservoir facies with a primary focus on Jurassic formations and unconventional resources and holds a Master’s Degree in Geosciences from Kuwait University.
Haylay Tsegab
Malaysia
Haylay Tsegab
Indonesia
Mohammed Al-Masrahy
Saudi Arabia
Geoscientist and technical leader with over 24 years of experience, including surface and subsurface geology, and reservoir characterization. I currently serve as a Geological Consultant at Saudi Aramco, leading a multidisciplinary team and driving innovation in Geoscience, with specific research interests in Continental system studies and the application of AI in Geoscience.
Steven Jyh-Jaan Huang
Taiwan
Takonporn Kunpitaktakun
Thailand
I am a Geologist in the Subsurface Technical Study Department at PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), Thailand, specializing in sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis, and reservoir architecture interpretation.
Merve Özyurt
Türkiye
David Maisuradze
Georgia
David Maisuradze is a final-year BSc Geology student at Tbilisi State University and works at the Al. Janelidze Institute of Geology, with interests in sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology and petroleum geology.
David Maisuradze
Azerbaijan
David Maisuradze is a final-year BSc Geology student at Tbilisi State University and works at the Al. Janelidze Institute of Geology, with interests in sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology and petroleum geology.
Shama’a Al-Rashidi
Oman
Shama’a Zaid Al-Rashidi is a Senior Geologist at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), specializing in reservoir facies with a primary focus on Jurassic formations and unconventional resources and holds a Master’s Degree in Geosciences from Kuwait University.
Shama’a Zaid Al-Rashidi
United Arab Emirates
Shama’a Zaid Al-Rashidi is a Senior Geologist at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), specializing in reservoir facies with a primary focus on Jurassic formations and unconventional resources and holds a Master’s Degree in Geosciences from Kuwait University.
Europe
Theresa Nohl
Austria
Katarina Gobo
Croatia
Katarina Gobo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. She earned her PhD in clastic sedimentology from the University of Bergen, after which she spent a few years working in the petroleum industry before continuing her career in academia. Her current research focuses on the sedimentological and stratigraphic evolution of peripheral foreland basins, with particular emphasis on the North Dalmatian foreland basin in Croatia.
Roland Nádaskay
Czechia
I have more than 10 years experience at the Czech Geological Survey where I have participated in a wide scale of projects incl. scientific (focused on Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic basins, tectonic processes, provenance and climate change), applied science (hydrogeolgy and geothermal research in sedimentary basins) to geological mapping. As part of my research activities, I have worked in Czechia, and abroad in the U. S., in Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.
Mads Engholm Jelby
Denmark
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University with a PhD in siliciclastic sedimentology and stratigraphy based on fieldwork in High-Arctic Svalbard. Primarily focusing on shallow-marine sedimentology and deep-time climate change, my main projects currently include: (i) ultra-high-resolution climate archives in coal seams; (ii) transgressive coastal morphodynamics due to to climate change; and (iii) Early Cretaceous basin evolution and dynamics in the Boreal Realm (Svalbard, the Greater Barents Sea Basin, and the North Sea Basin).
Mathieu Schuster
France
Marcello Gugliotta
Germany
Prof. Dr. Marcello Gugliotta is Head of the Sedimentary Systems and Resources group at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research focuses on fluvial-to-marine transition zones, coastal and shallow-marine sedimentation, tidal dynamics, digital outcrop modelling using drones and LiDAR, and the transport and deposition of plastics in coastal systems.
Matthias Sinnesael
Ireland
Alessandro Mancini
Italy
Alessandro Mancini was a postdoctoral researcher in 2025 at Sapienza University of Rome’s Department of Earth Sciences. His research activity is focused on sedimentary succession using a multidisciplinary approach combining basin analysis, field geology, 3D modelling, and geochemistry. In particular his work investigates climate change in carbonate systems and geogenic CO₂ in the global carbon cycle across various geological settings.
Artur Kędzior
Poland
Pedro Dinis
Portugal
Pedro Dinis is an Associate Professor at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Coimbra and an integrated member of the MARE Research Center – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre. His research focuses on the sedimentology of siliciclastic units, both present-day sediments and rocks of different age, formed in different environments and Earth regions. In recent years, he has invested in the study of the processes that control the texture and composition of sediments, with particular emphasis on the effects of provenance and climate-related weathering. Besides contributing to the reconstruction of past environmental conditions, he is interested in the understanding of natural hazards that may be related to environmental changes.
Almaz Mullakaev
Russia
Dejan Radivojevic
Serbia
Geologist with over 25 years of experience in oil and gas exploration, integrating academic and industrial practice in sedimentary basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, structural geology, and petroleum systems. Experience spans more than 40 sedimentary basins worldwide across Europe, the former USSR, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Astrid Švara
Slovenia
Miquel Poyatos Moré
Spain
Associate Professor of Stratigraphy at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. More than 15 years of research experience, covering a wide range of topics and depositional environments, from the study of outcrop analogues for subsurface characterization, to the preservation and propagation of paleoenvironmental signals in the sedimentary record.
Olena Ganzha
Ukraine
Rob Duller
United Kingdom
I am a Senior Lecturer in Earth Science at the University of Liverpool, studying Earth surface processes and how they are recorded in the stratigraphic record. My research focuses on environmental signal propagation through sediment routing systems and on the dynamics of fluvial systems and hazardous flows, using a combination of field, experimental, and quantitative approaches. From 2025, I serve as Secretary for the British Sedimentological Research Group (BSRG). I am happy to be contacted about science, collaborations, and BSRG-related activities. Outside of work, I enjoy running and most sports, and I’m working on reading more and learning guitar.
Tereza Mosociova
Norway
Tereza Mosociova is a PhD Research Fellow in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo. Her research focusses of tectonostratigraphy of Carboniferous and Permo-Triassic rift basins, particularly in Svalbard, offshore mid-Norway and Greenland.
Tereza Mosociova
Sweden
Tereza Mosociova is a PhD Research Fellow in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo. Her research focusses of tectonostratigraphy of Carboniferous and Permo-Triassic rift basins, particularly in Svalbard, offshore mid-Norway and Greenland.
Oceania
Romain Vaucher
Australia
Romain is a Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology at James Cook University, Australia. His research focuses on the dynamics of sedimentary systems across modern and ancient environments, building on extensive expertise in sedimentology, stratigraphy, and palaeoclimate in continental to shallow-marine settings.
Andrew La Croix
New Zealand
I am a Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. My research focuses on sedimentary processes and stratigraphic records from modern and ancient systems, with applications to carbon sequestration, reservoir characterisation, and natural hazards.