Research summary: A biostratigrapher by primary training with a PhD on the Cretaceous stratigraphy of Oman, he has had a long and diverse career in both industry and academia, with spells at BP and Aberdeen and Cambridge universities prior to co-leading Neftex, a stratigraphy-based geoscience company that is now part of Halliburton.

He has a wide range of research interests, but tends to be focused on applied stratigraphy, Middle East geology, and the role of geosciences in the energy transition. His palaeontological expertise is in Cretaceous larger benthic foraminifera. He regularly writes and presents on the importance of biostratigraphy in academic and applied research.   

His current focus is the characterisation of the subsurface for all aspects of the energy transition. I am a Visiting Professor at the University of London. He has over 200 publications to my name, including several books, and regularly presents to industry, at conferences and at universities.