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Dr. Sherif M. Hanafy has been a Professor of Geophysics at Cairo University, Egypt, since 2018 and an Associate Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, since 2022. He also leads the geophysical program at the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR).
He holds a B.Sc. (1993) and M.Sc. (1996) in Geophysics from Cairo University and earned his Ph.D. (2002) in Geophysics through a joint program between Cairo University and Kiel University, Germany. Dr. Hanafy was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in 1999 and a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004, which supported his postdoctoral research at the University of Utah, USA.
Dr. Hanafy has held several academic and research appointments, including Senior Research Scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2009 to 2018, and Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah between 2004 and 2007. He also has over 30 years of academic experience and more than 18 years of industry collaboration through consortia such as UTAM and CSIM
Dr. Hanafy has over 80 published papers and 110 abstracts in regional and international conferences. His research interests include geophysical field methods, seismic interferometry, traveltime tomography, early-arrival waveform inversion, seismic modelling and migration, data interpolation and extrapolation, and shallow applications of resistivity and ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Recently, he has expanded his research to incorporate machine learning techniques in seismic data processing and interpretation. Dr. Hanafy’s contributions have earned him multiple international recognitions, including the SEG Honorary Lecturer Award (2022), the AAPG J.C. “Cam” Sproule Memorial Award (2024), Elected “Director at Large” of the board of directors, the SEG (2020-2023), and associate editor at both Geophysics and Near-surface Geophysics journals.
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