Dr. José Miguel Gorosabel is a Senior Researcher at the University of Houston with the Conjugate Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons (CBTH) consortium. He holds an MSc from the Complutense University of Madrid and earned his PhD in Geology in 2020, focusing on the hydrocarbon potential of the southern Dominican Republic. His research centers on basin analysis and petroleum systems modeling across Atlantic margins, with a focus on the Equatorial Atlantic. Integrating geochemistry, seismic interpretation, and advanced basin modeling, Dr. Gorosabel evaluates source rock distribution, thermal maturation, and hydrocarbon generation in complex rifted and transform settings across Brazil, Nigeria, and Equatorial Guinea. An active presenter at major international conferences (AAPG IMAGE, EAGE, AAPG ICE), he serves on technical committees including the EAGE Conjugate Margins Conference and acts as faculty advisor for the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award team and EAGE Student Chapter, advancing multidisciplinary approaches to petroleum systems analysis in frontier basins.

Currently Senior Geoscience Advisor in ExxonMobil’s Global Geothermal Exploration team. He has more than 30 years of experience across exploration, development, production, and research. His primary focus has been applying tectonostratigraphic principles to basin formation and evolution in frontier settings. He holds degrees in Geology from Cornell College and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Stephen A. "Stoney” Clark is the Leading Advisor in Petroleum Systems at Equinor, where he provides technical leadership in petroleum systems and subsurface evaluation. Over a career spanning more than 25 years in industry and academia, he has worked across exploration geophysics, basin tectonics, petroleum systems modelling, and exploration risk assessment. Prior to his current role, Stoney led Equinor's Filling the Reservoirs research portfolio and spent eight years as a Principal Researcher focused on advancing the predictive power of basin and petroleum systems modelling. Before joining Equinor, he conducted research on crustal architecture and basin dynamics at the University of Oslo, and held geophysicist positions with BP in Anchorage, Stavanger, and Houston. Stoney holds a PhD in Geophysics from Rice University and an MS in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. His work bridges fundamental geoscience and practical exploration challenges, with a particular focus on understanding the geological processes that control hydrocarbon generation, migration, and accumulation. He is passionate about cross-disciplinary subsurface integration and emerging technologies to improve exploration prediction and decision-making.

Johannes works as a Petroleum Systems Analyst with TotalEnergies Exploration in Paris, France. He has a career of > 35 years of expertise in basin modeling, fluid and pressure analysis, software development, and basin and petroleum studies with IFP, Shell, and TotalEnergies, where he held various positions as manager in R&D and Exploration, and as expert and senior exploration advisor. Over the last 30 years, Johannes has been at the forefront of modern basin modeling, in areas as diverse as stratigraphic forward modeling, 3D fluid and migration, compositional modeling, uncertainty estimation, geomechanics coupling, and how to apply modeling concepts in exploration risk assessment. Johannes holds a PhD in Applied Earth Sciences from Stanford University and is the current Oil and Gas Chair of EAGE.