Chris Jackson is Director of Sustainable Geoscience at the engineering consultancy Jacobs and Visiting Professor of Basin Analysis at Imperial College London. Chris works in the general area of sedimentary basin analysis. When not studying rocks, Chris gives geoscience lectures to the public and in schools, having appeared on several, Earth Science-focused, television productions and podcasts. Chris is engaged in efforts to improve equality, diversity, and inclusivity in Higher Education.

Hugo Matias received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Geophysics from the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Sciences) and a Post-Graduation in Oil and Gas Business (UAL/Inst. Français Petrol). He has +20 years’ experience in the O&G industry with focus on International joint ventures management, Integrated project management. Hugo started his career in 1997 with PARTEX OIL AND GAS working in projects in Kazakhstan and the Middle East. He later joined REPSOL in 2005 where he held mostly international project management positions in several countries: Brazil, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ireland, UK and Spain. In 2020 he joined CERENA & IST-University of Lisbon as Associated Professor and researcher developing research projects related with underground CO2 storage. Since 2022 he is the CEO of NET4CO2, a technological company dedicated to development and deployment of decarbonization technologies and solutions, He co-organized several international conferences and served as a member of several Scientific Committees and is currently involved in the co-supervision of MSc and PhD thesis. He has extensive experience as course instructor, researcher in international projects, actively participating in international conferences and published widely in international scientific journals.

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Biography:

PhD in geology at the University of Lisbon, on the tectonics of the SW Iberian margin. Post-Doc at the University of Monash, Australia, where he worked in the geodynamic modelling of subduction zones. Worked on analogue models simulating different tectonic environments, including rifting, strike-slip faults, accretionary wedges, subduction zones and slab-plume interactions. Developed numerical models of subduction initiation, investigating both generic models and different natural examples, including the Gibraltar Arc, SW Iberia, the Scotia Arc and the Caribbean region. Has ongoing collaborations to study the relationship between tectonics, ocean tides and climate over the entire history of the Earth, with applications to planetary geology and the study of exoplanets. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Communications Earth & Environment and a Fellow of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

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Title: The reactivation of the Atlantic margins and its implications for the dynamics of the Wilson Cycle

Degree in Geological Engineering in (2007) and MSc. on Marine Geology and Geophysics(2009) both from U. Aveiro. Leonardo concluded his Ph.D. in 2013 with the development of novel geostatistical methodologies for geophysical data integration into subsurface Earth models (Técnico, U. Lisboa). Habilitation in Georesources (2021). Currently he is Associate Professor at IST where he teaches courses related to spatial data science and geophysics and acts as Head of CERENA (Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente). Currently, his main research interests are related to the development of spatial data science methods to model natural phenomena, geostatistical geophysical inversion and uncertainty assessment in natural systems. In 2022 he was awarded with the EAGE’s Arie van Weelden Award and the SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award. He is the co-author of 2 books published by Springer and more than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Leonardo serves as Associated Editor for Computers and Geosciences and GEOPHYSICS.

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Title: How to model the subsurface? The role of spatial data science in geophysical inverse modelling

Octavian Catuneanu is Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the recipient of several distinctions in the field of Geology, including the W.W. Hutchison medal of the Geological Association of Canada for exceptional advances in earth science research, and best paper awards from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, the Geological Society of America, and the Romanian Academy of Sciences. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, Chair of the Task Group on Sequence Stratigraphy of the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Chair of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, and member of the editorial board of several international journals. He is the editor of several books and special issues, author of numerous publications in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis, and instructor of short courses for universities, conferences and companies worldwide. His “Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy” textbook received the 2007 “Outstanding Academic Title” CHOICE Award from the American Library Association, and it is currently in its Second Edition (Elsevier, 2022).

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Title: Developments in Sequence Stratigraphy