We are extremely pleased to announce that Professor Hamed Sanei has just started his position as Mærsk Oil Chair at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University.

He was formerly a senior research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, where he led the Unconventional Reservoir Characterization project. He received his Ph.D. in Geochemistry and organic petrology from the University of Victoria.  He is also an adjunct professor with the University of Calgary and technical member of its Tight Oil Consortium. He has published extensively in the area of organic petrology and geochemistry. He is currently the President of the Canadian Society for Organic Petrology. He is also an editor of International Journal of Coal Geology and the Energy Exploration & Exploitation.  

Hamed is very excited about potential internal and external collaborations, and can be contacted by email (Sanei@geo.au.dk)."