Shahid Iqbal

Dr. Shahid Iqbal is a Lecturer and Secretary for the UNESCO IGCP 732 - LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene project at the Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria. He has held various academic roles, including Postdoctoral Project Assistant and Guest Professor at the University of Vienna, and served as Assistant Professor and Lecturer at Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan.

• Current Project: UNESCO IGCP 732 focusing on Anthropocene signals
• Prior Roles: Postdoc, Guest Professor, and Lecturer in Austria and Pakistan

His research spans sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry with applications to paleoclimates, sea-level fluctuations, bauxite deposits, and anthropogenic climate change. He specializes in the geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys margin in the Salt Range fold and thrust belt, event stratigraphy at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, and seismic data interpretation.

Selected research trends from his publications include:

• Cretaceous clastic reservoirs in the Indus Basin
• Triassic-Jurassic bauxite genesis in Pakistan
• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Jurassic formations
• Machine learning applications in geophysical anomaly detection
• Anthropogenic contamination markers in Plio-Pleistocene sediments