Dr. Irfan U. Jan has BSc., and MSc. from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan, PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom and Post Docs./Fellowships from the Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria and University of Regina, Canada. Previously, attached with the Geo-Services East, as a Geologist, and having the Upstream industrial experience in the oil and gas-bearing sedimentary basins of Pakistan (including Upper, Middle and Lower Indus Basins) and UAE and in-depth knowledge of hydrocarbon bearing strata from these countries, Dr. Jan switched to academia in 2005 and progressed through the positions of Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Dr. Jan’s core research interest incorporates the petroleum geological, stratigraphic, and sedimentological investigation of the Permian-Triassic and Jurassic successions of Pakistan and their correlative studies across the Arabian and Indian plates. He has published numerous papers in the international well-reputed impact factor journals (including Q1 impact factor journals), and has delivered the outcomes of his research in several international conferences in Portugal, Canada, Poland, London, Italy, Greece and The Netherlands.

Dr. Jan is working as an Editor of the “Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences” (an only geoscience category “X” recognized journal by HEC, in Pakistan) since 2012, as member Editorial Board International Journal of Economic and Environmental Geology (HEC category “Y” journal), and is sitting on the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan’s Panel of the Quality Assurance Agency for policy making/evaluation of Natural Sciences journals. He manages several international collaborative research projects with researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, China, USA, and India and has been rated as the youngest productive scientist for year 2014 by the “Pakistan Academy of Sciences”, and received “Dr. Shah Jehan Gold Medal in Earth Sciences: 2014” in a country-wide competition. Dr. Jan also availed significant country-wide positions (i.e. 64th in 2017 and 26th in 2016) in the “Productive Scientists of Pakistan Directories” issued by the Pakistan Council of Science, and Technology, and has worked as Principal Investigator on ~Rs. 15.52 millions and as Co-Principal Investigator on ~Rs. 12.64 millions funded research projects.

Dr. Jan has established state-of-the-art “Sedimentology and Palynology Laboratory" in his institute carrying instruments worthed 50 millions Rs., which is extending consultancy and research services in Asian region in sustainable manners. He is a member of several international scholarly societies namely; the Geological Society of London (GSL), the British Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), the Palaeontological Association (PALASS), the Commission Internationale de la Microflora du Palaeozoique (CIMP), the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Asian Council of Science Editors (ASCE), and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Jan has chief organized, and co-organized several international conferences, and seminars and is HEC approved PhD supervisor in geosciences.

Dr. Jan works as “Consultant” for oil, and gas and Cement industries, he has conducted/lead a cumulative ~Rs. 35.7 million commercial projects/consultancies.