Renaud Traby is a Petroleum Systems Modeling Specialist with 20 years of experience. During his career at BEICIP-FRANLAB, IFP Energies Nouvelles, and TotalEnergies, he has been exposed to virtually every facet of basin modeling, including software development, technical support, consulting, research, training, business development, and operational applications. He has contributed to petroleum systems studies across a broad range of geological settings worldwide, from frontier exploration to mature producing basins. Strongly solution-driven, he is passionate about understanding the physical processes governing geological systems and translating ideas into practical workflows. Having programmed for more than a decade, he regularly develops algorithms, software tools, and digital workflows to address technical challenges and extend the capabilities of existing geoscience solutions. This combination of scientific insight and coding skills has enabled him to contribute innovative methodologies, publications, patents, and operational workflows across a wide range of geoscience disciplines.

Nur Faiqah Hisham is a Geologist specializing in Petroleum System Modelling (PSM), basin and petroleum systems analysis, integrated PSM, basin evolution, and hydrocarbon charge assessment. Her work focuses on supporting exploration and subsurface evaluations through the integration of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and geochemical datasets into quantitative basin modelling workflows. She holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Geoscience, where her research focused on petroleum geochemistry and source rock characterisation. Her technical interests include PSM, Trap Charge Analysis (TCA), hydrocarbon migration, source rock evaluation, and sedimentology. Throughout her career, she has contributed to multidisciplinary projects across several Southeast Asian basins, including the Malay Basin, Sarawak Basin, East Java Basin, Banggai-Sula Basin and South Sumatra Basin. Her expertise includes thermal and burial history modelling, hydrocarbon generation and migration modelling, uncertainty assessment, and TCA to evaluate exploration risks and prospect charge potential. She is passionate about integrating advanced modelling techniques with geological understanding to improve subsurface decision-making and exploration outcomes. As an early-career geoscientist, Nur Faiqah is committed to continuous professional development and knowledge sharing, with a strong interest in advancing integrated PSM workflows that bridge geoscience disciplines and support data-driven exploration strategies.

Dr. Armin I. Kauerauf is a Physicist who is working for more than 25 years in the Petromod team in varying roles such as a software engineer, project manager, architect, expert for hydrocarbon generation, migration, PVT analysis, statistics and uncertainty. He is coauthor of “Fundamentals of Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling,” (Springer, 2009).

Dr Adriana Lemgruber-Traby is a geological engineer and research scientist, specialized in basin and petroleum system modelling, with 20 years of experience across industry and R&D. At IFP Energies nouvelles, she leads the research and development of basin modeling tools (TemisFlow, Arctem), extending their use from petroleum systems to natural hydrogen systems, geothermal energy, lithium rich brines, and geological carbon storage. Her background spans pore-pressure prediction, regional and prospect scale modeling, and complex petroleum systems gained at PUC-Rio, PGT/Vale Óleo e Gás, Beicip Franlab and IFPEN. Adriana also supervises postdoctoral researchers, PhD and master’s students, and teaches basin modeling at IFP School and Sorbonne Université.

Fred Schneider is a geoscientist and engineer with an MSc from Mines Paris-PSL and a PhD in mining geology. He spent 16 years at IFPEN developing quantitative geology models and software for petroleum exploration. He later joined Beicip-Franlab, where he worked for 19 years as a petroleum systems analyst on major exploration projects, with a focus on petroleum systems analysis and geoscientific data integration. After 35 years in the energy industry, he retired in July 2024 and founded GeoArt, a company dedicated to conceptual and numerical model development in geosciences. He also serves as CTO of HyReveal.

Irina is a systems-based exploration specialist and strategic regional geoscientist with more than 20 years of international experience across basin, play, and prospect scales. Her expertise lies in integrating multidisciplinary geological and geophysical data into coherent genetic basin frameworks to identify exploration opportunities, establish geological dependencies, and quantify shared subsurface risks. She has extensive experience translating complex geological uncertainty into decision-focused assessments for technical leadership, particularly in the evaluation of Yet-To-Be-Found potential and exploration portfolio competitiveness. Her regional experience includes the Guyana–Suriname margin, the Campos, Santos and Pelotas basins in Brazil, the Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire basins, the Precaspian and South Caspian regions, Western Siberia, and the Barents Sea. Irina has strong expertise in petroleum systems, stratigraphic, and facies modeling. She is an expert PetroMod user and has experience with TemisFlow and the OpenFlow Suite, including DionisosFlow and Kronos. Her stratigraphic and facies modeling experience also includes DionisosFlow, GPM-Petrel, and Petrel Facies Modeling.

Krishna Silva is a 14 years experienced Geologist in Oil Industry and has worked for more than 6 years as well site geologist and geological well data acquisition. Krishna has also worked 4 years with Rock-Fluid Interactions, period when he graduated as M.Sc working with the implications of CO2 for reservoir rocks for Carbon Capture and Storage purposes. In the last years, he has been working with Basin and Petroleum System Modeling focused on new exploration areas in Santos and Campos Basin- offshore Brazil.

Kajal Kumari is a Management Trainee at Bharat PetroResources Limited (BPRL) with an academic background in Petroleum Engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Her professional experience includes exposure to upstream oil and gas operations through industry internships at Halliburton and ONGC. Her interests include reservoir engineering, reservoir characterization, production forecasting, and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to subsurface modeling.

Aykut Atadeger works as a Data Scientist at SLB. His research interests include machine learning-based proxy modeling, proxy-based production optimization and life-cycle reservoir management. He holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.

Guillermo Perez-Drago is a multidisciplinary geoscientist with expertise in exploration geology, basin modelling, petroleum systems analysis, geochemistry, reservoir fluids, and AI/ML applications for subsurface evaluation. He has led and contributed to more than 40 studies covering basin screening, frontier exploration, prospect maturation, and resource assessment across North and South America, Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. His current work focuses on the integration of geoscience data, machine learning, and knowledge-graph technologies for global basin screening, petroleum systems evaluation, and analogue-based resource prediction. Guillermo has authored and co-authored more than 20 technical papers and conference publications in the fields of exploration geoscience, basin analysis, and digital subsurface solutions.

Anis Larbi is a PhD candidate in Petroleum Engineering at the University of North Dakota, where his research addresses CO₂-based enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon storage in the Middle Bakken member of the Bakken Petroleum System. His work combines minimum miscibility pressure simulation of crude oil–CO₂ systems, molecular dynamics modelling of CO₂ diffusion in tight matrix, and the geochemical effects of CO₂ injection, supported by coreflood experiments and digital rock physics. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from USTHB (Algiers). He has authored, and co-authored several conference papers and is a sworn member of the Order of Engineers.