Regional Correspondents

Bokanda Ekoko Eric

Cameroon

Dr Bokanda Ekoko Eric is a senior lecturer in the department of Geology and Head of Department for chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the University of Buea, Cameroon. His research field spans from sedimentology (field characterization, sedimentary geochemistry, and Paleoenvironmental reconstruction), Petroleum Geology (organic petrology and geochemistry, well log analysis), Environmental Geochemistry (Heavy metal assessment in sediments) and alluvial mineral exploration (Heavy minerals exploration in rivers and coastal beaches).

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.

Nkem Odiaka

Nigeria

I am an enthusiastic geologist at Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba, Nigeria, My research focuses on clastic sedimentology, including provenance, reservoir quality, diagenesis, and their implications for petroleum exploration.

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

I am an Associate Professor in carbonate sedimentology in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at Texas A&M University. My research focuses on the evolution of carbonate platforms, carbonate diagenesis, and dolomitization, integrating field work, subsurface data, geochemistry, geophysics, and laboratory-based approaches across multiple spatial and temporal scales. My work has included carbonate facies analysis and paleogeographic reconstructions of Permian systems in South America and the Permian Basin, as well as studies of modern and ancient carbonate systems in the Middle East, Caribbean, and West Texas. More recently, my research has explored fundamental questions in carbonate early diagenesis using ocean drilling materials and IODP core datasets to investigate Miocene carbonate platform evolution and seafloor dolomitization processes.

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.

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

I am a researcher at the Geological survey of Israel, studying Quaternary geology, soil-, eolian-, and coastal-geomorphology and surficial processes. My work integrates field-based research with laboratory analyses, together with modeling and application of remote sensing and geographic information systems techniques.

Masaki Yamada

Japan

Masaki Yamada is an Associate Professor at Shinshu University, Japan. His research focuses on tsunami and flood sedimentology, particularly the reconstruction of Holocene extreme events using sedimentological approaches. His field investigations are mainly conducted in Japan, as well as in Spain, Indonesia, and other regions.

Bekzhan Smagambetov

Kazakhstan

Bekzhan Smagambetov is a Reservoir Engineer at KATCO JV LLP (Orano's subsidiary), working on hydrodynamic modelling and sedimentologically constrained reservoir characterization of sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in the Chu-Sarysu Basin, Kazakhstan. His research interests include fluvial sedimentology, reservoir heterogeneity, sequence stratigraphy, and the application of sedimentological models to improve in-situ recovery operations.

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

I am an Associate Professor in Department of Geoscience at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (Malaysia), specializing in carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy, and reservoir characterization. My research focuses on subsurface reservoir analysis, CO₂ sequestration and the application of data-driven methods in geoscience.

Haylay Tsegab

Indonesia

I am an Associate Professor in Department of Geoscience at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (Malaysia), specializing in carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy, and reservoir characterization. My research focuses on subsurface reservoir analysis, CO₂ sequestration and the application of data-driven methods in geoscience.

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

Steven Jyh-Jaan Huang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University. His research focuses on sedimentary processes, event stratigraphy, and digital-core analysis, with applications to subaqueous paleoseismology, natural hazards, and CCS reservoir characterization.

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

My research focuses primarily on sedimentology and sedimentary geochemistry to elucidate the paleoceanographic and diagenetic evolution of Jurassic–Cretaceous Tethyan carbonate systems. Furthermore, I interrogate geochemical proxies in modern lake settings under extreme conditions to refine our understanding of how sedimentary archives record abrupt climate changes.

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.

Kyungsik Choi

Korea

I am a professor at Seoul National University in Korea, specializing in the sedimentology and morphodynamics of tidal flats, estuaries, and deltas. My research combines extensive field-based observations from tropical to Arctic environments with modern monitoring techniques and stratigraphic analysis to better understand tide-influenced and tide-dominated depositional systems, their environmental significance, and their evolution under rapid environmental change.

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).

Julien Bailleul

France

Dr. Julien Bailleul, Associate-Professor in sedimentary geology and basin analysis, in charge of the master program of the UniLaSalle institute (Beauvais, France) dedicated to the applications of sedimentology, structural geology and marine geosciences to fossil and renewable energies, underground storage as well as mitigation of the consequences of climate change (GRT: Geo-Energies, climate Risks and Territories). I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the University of Lille (France) and my National Recognition to Conduct Research in 2024 from the University of Amiens (France). My main scientific interests concern the relationships between sedimentation and deformation within confined intra-slope basins, with a particular focus on deep water fold and thrust belts.

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

I am broadly interested in the fields of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeoclimatology, stratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy & astrochronology and geochemistry. As the regional correspondent for Ireland: please feel free to contact me about anything that you feel might be relevant for our community

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

Artur Kędzior specialises in clastic sedimentation as a tool for reconstructing sedimentary environments within a wide range of stratigraphic successions, from the Ediacaran to the Middle Jurassic. He also studies the cyclical nature of coal-bearing sedimentation. He is experienced in working with outcrops and drill cores in a variety of continental, deltaic, estuarine, tidal and shelf depositional systems, dating from the Ediacaran to the Jurassic periods.

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

I am a sedimentologist from Kazan Federal University, specialising in the sedimentology and diagenesis of bituminous sandstones. My PhD provided the first evidence for the aeolian origin of Ufimian sandstone reservoirs (Upper Early Permian, Russian stratigraphic scale) and explained the heterogeneous petrophysical properties of natural bitumen reservoirs. I work at the intersection of sedimentology, facies analysis, organic petrology, petrophysics and geochemistry, studying how hydrocarbons are preserved and how ancient aeolian reservoirs transform from the Permian to the present day.

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

Astrid Švara holds a PhD in karstology, specializing in geomorphology and karst sediments, particularly contact karst with allogenic sediments. She is a speleologist studying cave systems as sediment archives, with a focus on XRD analyses and the dating of allogenic sediments as evidence of past flooding, as well as speleothems as vadose cave sedimentation testimony. She works with GIS and applies the method of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT). Her research also examines the effects of tectonics on the evolution of caves in karst areas.

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

Senior Researcher at the Department of Lithology of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I am particularly interested in conditions of placer formation and mineral composition of titanium-zirconium placers of the Ukrainian placer province.

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.

Theresa Nohl

Austria

I am a geobiologist and carbonate sedimentologist focusing on diagenetic biases in the geologic record. My main interests is microbially mediated early diagenesis in carbonate sediments, its their temporal and spatial intensity range, its effects on palaeontological, geochemical and sedimentological data retrieved from carbonate rocks for stratigraphic uses and palaeoenvironmental interpretation, as well as its effect on carbon cycling.

Annelotte Weert

Netherlands

Annelotte is a structural geologist and sedimentologist with a research focus on complex sedimentary reservoirs and subsurface heterogeneity, with a particular interest in inverted rift basin settings. Her research focuses on sedimentological and structural heterogeneity across different spatial scales, and how these influence reservoir behavior. To address this, she combines field observations, subsurface data analysis, and geological modelling. Ultimately, she aims to translate these insights into practical applications that support the energy transition.

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.