Guest Speaker(s): Professor Simon Lang

Professor Simon Lang is a globally recognised expert in sedimentology and stratigraphy with over 40 years experience in basin analysis, mineral and petroleum exploration & development, carbon sequestration and modern fluvial-deltaic depositional processes.

He was recently honoured as the 4th geoscientist to receive the Australian National Geoscience Champion in 2024 by the Australian Geoscience Council, representing all eight Australian geoscience professional societies, in recognition of his “major contribution to Australian Geoscience through decades of work and research across government, industry and academia”. He was also awarded in 2024 the Barry Goldstein Award – for Innovation, Collaboration & Communication in Geoscience. by the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia. He received the Meritorious Service award from PESA WA in 2022, and was the PESA Distinguished Lecturer for 2010.

Since 2018 he has been the Director of the Centre for Energy Geoscience at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia. This followed 18 years in industry for Chevron and Woodside. Prior to this he was Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide – National Centre for Petroleum Geology & Geophysics, then the Australian School of Petroleum, and Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. His early career began as a cadet then geologist with the Queensland Geological Survey.

He has published over 120 papers and geological maps, supervised numerous post-graduate students and run many field courses and core-workshops for academia and industry in Australia and SE Asia. He is a member of PESA, AAPG, IAS & SEPM.