Holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Rennes (1991). After spending 30 years in the Oil Industry, as a recognized structural geology expert, Pascal can concentrate on one of his passions which is teaching structural geology. Pascal is a passionate teacher and coach. He also actively supports academia work contributing to master and PhD programs. His knowledge is based on numerous integrated projects, both at Exploration and Production scales, and on numerous training run since the beginning of his career. Pascal joined Shell in 1991. He initially spent 5 years in the Shell Research lab where he developed, with the team, some of the foundation concepts of modern structural geology. He has led the sandbox laboratory and run numerous experimental programs covering all structural styles. He has then spent 3 years in Oman in Exploration as a seismic interpreter and in a structural geology support role. This was followed by 4 years in Shell Carbonate Development Research Team focusing on Fractured reservoirs. Pascal went back to Oman for 7 years to implement fractured reservoir software technology and act as a focal point for structural geology in the Middle East. He finally spent 10 years in Shell Global Solutions working as a global consultant, working on projects and training. He has spent the last 3 years as the head of the structural geology discipline in Shell.

Martin is an independent consultant assisting customers with geological studies and hydrocarbon prospectivity evaluations from basin to prospect range. Previously, he has worked for Schlumberger for ten years. Martin has conducted and published numerous industry and academic projects around the world, in a variety of different basins and at any level of exploration maturity, from frontier to near-field exploration. Martin also holds an honorary lecturer position with Imperial College London (United Kingdom) where he teaches basin and petroleum systems modelling and supervises PhD and MSc students.

Gilles has more than 15 years of experience in the Oil industry, with more than 50 integrated studies completed. He has worked as Development Geologist for major operator and consulting companies. He has developed integrated workflows, to adapt methods of modeling to fit objectives. Since 2012, he has been thoroughly involved in the development of Reservoir modeling trainings for IFP School and IFP Training.

Civil Engineer from the Paris School of Mines, Alain Prinzhofer completed a doctoral engineering PhD on the structural geology and petrology of the New Caledonian ophiolite at the Paris School of Mines, and a state PhD on melting processes of the Earth's mantle at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris (IPGP). As a researcher in cosmochemistry, he worked on the formation of the solar system at Caltech (California), then on natural gas at IFPEN. For several years as a precursor, he has devoted himself to research into natural hydrogen, a new source of renewable and non-polluting energy. He is Scientific Director of GEO4U (Brazil), and affiliated professor at the University of Paris and Rio de Janeiro. He has published 70 articles in international journals, 1 book, 8 patents, and approximately 200 communications in international conferences.

Benoit GOTAB est g�ophysicien de formation et travaille depuis plus de dix ans ann�es sur des grands projets de structuration de donn�es. Avec une double comp�tence IT et gestion de projet IT&DM, de la r�daction de sp�cification, au d�ploiement en production.

Hugues F�ni�s holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Total. He has more than 30 years of experience within the oil industry. He has been working for ExxonMobil as a geologist, seismic interpreter and reservoir engineer for 22 years in Europe. He now works with CV Associ�s Engineering as a consultant specialized in reservoir geology and he organizes training sessions for the petroleum and mining (uranium) industries. He has worked recently for the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) providing clastic facies reservoir courses to the geoscientists of PDVSA, the national company of Venezuela. He is also an Associate Professor at the Bordeaux University, where he teaches sedimentology, seismic interpretation and reservoir geology and supervises Master's degrees and PhDs research projects. He is also involved in research programs sponsored by major oil companies (Total, Nexen, and Engie) and has published several papers related to the characterization of shallow water reservoirs. He is vice-president of the French Association of Sedimentologists (ASF) and a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS).

Philippe Razin holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology in 1989 from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Elf-Aquitaine. He has been working during 8 years in the French Geological Survey before going back to the Bordeaux University in 1998 as aa full-time professor. He is mainly teaching sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis. He is also responsible for several field courses in the Spanish Pyrenees, Morocco and Oman. He has supervised 15 PhD students from 2000 to 2018 on various topics. These main research activities concern the architecture and dynamic of wide carbonate and siliciclastic platforms, the relationships between tectonics, diapirism and sedimentation and the carbonate turbiditic systems. These research projects are largely supported by oil companies (Total, Statoil, NIOC, PDO, ADCO,Saudi Aramco,Repsol, etc.) and mainly developed in the Middle-East (Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt), in Morocco and in the Pyrenees. He uses to organize various field-trips for oil companies and other institutions in the Middle-East, Morocco and Pyrenees on basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy and tectonic-sedimentation relationships, using both outcrop and seismic data.