Professor Dr. Brad Sageman

Biography

Brad Sageman is a Professor and Co-director of Undergraduate Studies at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. He serves as the Academic Director of the Master’s program in Energy Sustainability and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy. Prof. Sageman earned his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado and holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Denison University. His research primarily focuses on stratigraphy with a particular emphasis on chronostratigraphy, geochronology, astrochronology, and chemostratigraphy. He aims to develop high-resolution time scales of stratigraphic successions and apply various sequence stratigraphic techniques. His work investigates the processes controlling the burial of carbon in ancient sediments and their relationship with changes in the global carbon cycle and ocean-climate interactions, focusing on Ocean Anoxic Events and significant perturbations during the Neoproterozoic glaciations and various geological boundaries. He has devoted his career to the studies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin in North America, while also collaborating on research across Europe and Asia. In addition to his research, Prof. Sageman teaches various courses, including Evolution of the Scientific Method and Sedimentary Geology.

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