Principal Investigator

Abdulkader M. Afifi, PhD

Professor, Energy Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering

Research Specialist

Guillaume Baby, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Stratigraphy, Tectonic Evolution

Arlette De Santiago

Research Specialist

Jakub Fedorik, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Antoine Delaunay, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Sedimentology

Postdoctoral Fellow

Davide Berno, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Volcanology, Melt-Rocks Interactions, Igneous Petrology

Jing Ye, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Stratigraphy, Tectonic Evolution

PhD Student

Aytaj Khodayeva

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS)

Evelyn Garcia Paredes

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Dikes, Volcanism, Geochemistry

Tihana Pensa

PhD Student

Miliausha Petrova

PhD Student

Research Interests: Carbon Storage, Basaltic Rocks, Arabian Peninsula

MS Student

Maria Camila Lopez Suarez

MS Student

Research Interests: Ultramafic rocks, Petrology, CO2 Storage

Jose Abreu Torres

MS Student

Jordania Zerpa

MS Student

Research Interests: Fluids, Minerals, Rock Mechanics, Carbonates, Geophysics, Tectonic setting

Frankstein Arphan

MS Student

Murtadha Y. Al Malallah

MS Student

Ali Jawad Al Tammar

MS Student

Research Interests: Carbon Storage, Tectonic Evolution, Fracture Characterization, Carbon Sequestration, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Petroleum Geology, Plate Techtonics

Administrative Assistant

Marwa Ghammam

Administrative Assistant

Geological Laboratory Technician

Jeffrey William Carpenter

Geological Laboratory Technician

Research Interests: Lapidary, Thin Sections, Metasomatism