CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Bassem Sayed Nabawy Ibrahim.

Date/place of birth: March 29, 1971, Cairo, Egypt.
Nationality: Egyptian
Home Address: 239 B - Fifth zone, New Cairo, Egypt.
Work Address: Department of Geophysical Sciences, National Research
Center, ElBehoth Street, Dokki, Cairo.
Languages
Arabic : Mother tongue.
Other languages : English.

HIGHER EDUCATION
1988-1992: Bachelor of Geological Sciences, very good with the honor
degree, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Assuit
University, Sohag.
1994 - 1998: Master of Geological Sciences, Geology Department, Faculty of
Science, Cairo University, Cairo.
entitled: " Sedimentological, Petrophysical and magnetic characteristics of
the Upper Eocene-Oligocene sequence in Fayum Depression,
Western Desert, Egypt".

2000-2004: Ph.D in Geological Sciences, Geology Department, Faculty of

Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
entitled: " Sedimentological, Petrophysical and Magnetic studies on the
Upper Cretaceous Rocks at Sheikh Attia, Themed and Wadi Taba
areas, East Central Sinai, Egypt".

EMPLOYMENT
• June 1994-March 1996: A scholarship student, Department of Earth
Sciences, National Research Center, Cairo.
• March 1996-July 1998: Researcher Assistant, Department of Earth
Sciences, National Research Center, Cairo.
• July 1998-May 2004: Assistant Researcher, Department of Geological and
Geophysical Sciences, National Research Center, Cairo.
• May 2004-Present: Researcher, Department of Geophysical Sciences,
National Research Center, Cairo.
• Sep. 1995-June 2004: Part Time Teaching of the mineralogy, rocks,
Contour and Geological maps, Crystallography, the subsurface geology, and
the Economic Geology Experimental Courses, Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams
University, Cairo

OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

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• 2001-2004: Organizing and Teaching an Experimental course of "Studying
the Petrophysical properties of sedimentary rocks, and their Application
Reliability to the Egyptian Country", Training and Assessment of
Development abilities Center, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo.
Courses are organized for the Egyptian and Arab Researchers.
• 2001-Present: Training an Experimental course of Geology (summer
semester), for the Undergraduates of Geology Department, Cairo University.
• 2002-Present: Training an Experimental course of Geology (summer
semester), for the Undergraduates of Geology Department, Tanta University.
• 2002: Training an Experimental course of Geology (summer semester), for
the Undergraduates of Geology Department, South Valley University.
• 2006: Teaching in a specialized course entitled "Petroleum Geology and Oil
Exploration" for trainers from the Commonwealth Authority.
• 2007: Organizing and Teaching a specialized course entitled "Petrophysical
Properties of Reservoir Rocks", for trainers from WEBECO Oil Company,
Nuclear Material Authority and Suez Canal University.

RESEARCH PROFILE
• 14 years; of research experience in Petrophysics (storage capacity, electric
properties and pore fabric), Sedimentology (petrography, mineralogy, SEM,
diagenetic history, and Paleoenvironment criteria) and Magnetic studies
(pore and grain fabrics).
• 4 years; of research experience in Paleomagnetism.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

- 1998: A prize of the best Master of Science Thesis in the field
Sedimentology awarded by the Egyptian Society of Sedimentology.
- 2005: A prize of the best paper in the field of petrophysics awarded by
the Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Conference of Applied
Petrophysics.

PROJECTS
• A Principal Investigator of; A collaborative project entitled "Electric and
Magnetic Pore Fabric of the Cretaceous-Quaternary sequence, Tushka
Basin, SW Egypt", 2006-2008, sponsored by Egypt-France Integrated
Activities Program.
• A Principal Investigator of; A collaborative project Us-Egypt Joint of
research entitled " Influence of Structures on Drainage Patterns in Tushka
Region, Southwest Egypt", 2006-2008, sponsored by the US-Egypt &
Technology Joint Fund.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

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 • 2000-2006: A board member and Treasurer of the Egyptian Society of
Applied Petrophysics (ESAP).
• 2002-2006: Assistant Editor of Journal of Applied Geophysics, under the
auspices of ESAP.
Sponsored by Nuclear Material Authority, Egypt
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.
• A Treasurer and Electronic coordinator of the first International
Conference of Applied Geophysics hold by ESAP (27 April-2004(.
Sponsored by Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt
Nuclear Material Authority, Egypt
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.
Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (SUCO).

• A Treasurer and Electronic coordinator of the Second International

Conference of Applied Geophysics hold by ESAP (12-13 March-2005(.
Sponsored by Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt
Nuclear Material Authority, Egypt
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.
Apache Oil Company (Apache).

• A Treasurer and Electronic coordinator of the Third International Conference

of Applied Geophysics hold by ESAP (8-9 March-2006(.
Nuclear Material Authority, Egypt
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.
Apache Oil Company (Apache).

• A member of the Egyptian Society of Sedimentology.

• A member of the Egyptian Geophysical Society of (EGS).
• A member of the Geological Society of Egypt (GSE).
• A member of the Society of Geology of Tethys.
• A member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).

PUBLICATIONS
- Ragab, M. A., Khaled, K. A. and Nabawy, B. S., 1999. Evaluation of surface
Upper Eocene rocks as reservoir, Fayum, Egypt: Sedimentary, petrophysical
and magnetic study. Sedimentology of Egypt, vol. 7, pp. 149-166.
- AbdelDayem, A. L. and Nabawy, B. S., 1999. Magnetic properties of Upper
Eocene-Oligocene sequence, Fayum, Egypt", Sedimentology of Egypt, vol. 7,
pp. 167-182.
- Ragab M. A., ElSayed, A. A., Nabawy, B. S., 2000. Physical parameters of
Egyptian oil reservoir sedimentary rocks: A review: In Sedimentary Geology of
Egypt, Applications and economics. S.M. Soliman (Ed.), part 1, pp. 129-150.
- AbdelDayem, A. L. and Nabawy, B. S., 2000. Magnetic properties of the
Egyptian rocks: In Sedimentary Geology of Egypt, Applications and
economics. S.M. Soliman (Ed.), part 1, pp. 151-172.

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- Ragab M. A., Mohamed A. M. Kassab and Nabawy, B. S., 2005.
Petrophysical impacts of surface Upper Cretaceous rocks, Wadi Watir, East
Central Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Applied Geophysics, vol. 4, no. 1, March, pp.
153-166.
- Ragab M. A., Nabawy, B. S., and Gharib K. S., 2006. Petrophysical Facies
discrimination of surface Miocene calcareous sandstones, Wadi Feiran, Sinai.
Bull. NRC, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 347-367.
- Nabawy, B. S., 2007. Impacts of the Diagenetic History on the Petrophysical
Features of the Jurassic Marine Facies in Gebel El Maghara Massif, North
Sinai, Egypt. EGS Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 9-24.
- AbdelDayem, A.L., Nabawy, B. S. and ElSayed, R.A.M., 2007. Grain and
pore magnetic fabrics of some Upper Cretaceous rocks, east central Sinai,
Egypt. Journal of Applied Geophysics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 115-139.
- Nabawy, B. S. and El-Nadi, M., 2007. Impacts of TOC and Rock-Eval
Pyrolysis on the Electrical Behaviour of Safa Formation Coal seams, Gebel El
Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Applied Geophysics, vol. 6, no. 2,
Sept., pp. 47-63.
- Adel Othman, Nabawy, B. S., AbdelHafeez, Th., Saher, M. and AbdelKader,
R., 2008. Reservoir Quality Discrimination of the Lower part of Bahariya
formation, N. Qarun Oil Field, W.D., Egypt. EGS Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 81-
101.
- Nabawy, B. S. and Tarek Y. El-Hariri, 2008. Electric Fabric of Subsurface
Cretaceous Rocks, Abu Gharadig basin, Western Desert, Egypt. J. African
Earth Sciences, vol. 52(1-2), pp. 55-61.
- Abdel-Rahman, A.Y., and Nabawy, B. S., 2008. Electric lineation and
tortuosity for Assigning Fracture porosity In Nukhul Formation, North of the
Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Bull. NRC, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 147-170.
- Nabawy, B. S., and Ismail, A.I.M., 2008. Tensile Strength, weathering grades
and physical properties of some non-porous Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks,
East Central Sinai, Egypt. Bull. Middle East Society, Accepted.

PRESENTATIONS
* Ragab M. A., Kassab, M.A.M. and Nabawy, B.S.; "Petrophysical impacts of
surface Upper Cretaceous rocks, Wadi Watir, East Central Sinai,
Egypt", 2nd International Conference of Applied Petrophysics, 12-13
March, 2005, Cairo.
* AbdelDayem, A.L., and Nabawy, B.S.; "Grain and pore magnetic fabrics of
some Upper Cretaceous rocks, east central Sinai, Egypt", 2nd
International Conference of Applied Petrophysics, 12-13 March,
2005, Cairo.
* Nabawy, B. S. and Tarek Y. El-Hariri. "Electric Fabric of Subsurface
Cretaceous Rocks, Abu Gharadig basin, Western Desert, Egypt", 2nd
International Conference of Applied Petrophysics, 12-13 March,
2005, Cairo.

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* Nabawy, B.S., Ragab M.A. and Gharib K.S., "Petrophysical Facies
discrimination of surface Miocene calcareous sandstones, Wadi
Feiran", 2nd International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition by
SEG/EGS/EPEX/EPA, May 16-19, 2005, Cairo.
* Nabawy, B.S.; "Impacts of the Diagenetic History on the Petrophysical
Features of the Jurassic Marine Facies in Gebel El Maghara Massif,
North Sinai, Egypt", 2nd International Conference on Inorganic
Chemical Industries and Mineral Resources, Feb. 12-13, 2007,
Cairo.
* Nabawy, B.S. and El-Nadi, M.; "Impacts of TOC and Rock-Eval Pyrolysis
on the Electrical Behaviour of Safa Formation Coal seams, Gebel El
Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt", 2nd International Conference on the
Geology of the Tethys, March 19-22, 2007, Cairo.
* Robinson, C., El-Kaliouby, H., Hanafi, Sh., Nabawy, B.S. and Ghoneim, E.;
"Influence of structures on drainage patterns in the Tushka region, SW
Egypt", Denver Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America,
28-31 October-2007.
* Adel Othman, Nabawy, B.S., AbdelHafeez, Th., Saher, M. and AbdelKader,
R.; "Reservoir Quality Discrimination o the Lower part of Bahariya
formation, N. Qarun Oil Field, W.D., Egypt", 5th Int. Symposium on
Geophysics, Tanta, 27-29 November-2007.
* Adel Othman, AbdelHafeez, Th., Nabawy, B.S., Saher, M. and AbdelKader,
R.; "Formation evaluation of the Cretaceous reservoir in some wells of
Qarun Oil Wells, Western Desert", 5th Int. Symposium on
Geophysics, Tanta, 27-29 November-2007.

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