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Zain Gul

Zain Gul

Summary

Zain Gul is a PhD student at the University of Minho, supervised by Renato Henriques. His research addresses the coastal and marine geomorphology of the northern coast of Portugal, focusing on underwater landforms and sedimentary processes.

He combines boat-mounted sonar data and underwater video acquired with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) with image processing and artificial intelligence techniques to identify and map key seafloor landforms. He graduated in Geology from the University of Sindh, Pakistan (2014), and completed an MSc in Petroleum Geology at the University of Malaya, Malaysia (2017). He has experience in sedimentology, organic geochemistry and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Compiled from: ORCID

Research interests

  • Coastal and marine geomorphology
  • Sedimentology
  • Sonar and ROV surveys
  • Image processing and artificial intelligence
  • Organic geochemistry

Education

  • PhD (ongoing)
    University of Minho
  • 2017
    MSc in Petroleum Geology
    University of Malaya (Malaysia)
  • 2014
    BSc in Geology
    University of Sindh (Pakistan)

Recent publications

  1. Facies Heterogeneity and Lobe Facies Multiscale Analysis of Deep-Marine Sand-Shale Complexity in the West Crocker Formation of Sabah Basin, NW Borneo. Applied Sciences, 2021. doi:10.3390/app11125513
  2. The Bawang Member, a unique unit of Belaga Formation in the Miri Zone, Central Sarawak, NW Borneo Malaysia: Revised stratigraphic and sedimentological characteristics. Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.jnggs.2021.02.001
  3. Characterization of Bara Formation coals in Lakhra region, Lower Indus Basin Pakistan: Implication of hydrocarbon generation potential and depositional environment. Petroleum & Coal, 2020.

Publications since 2015 (ORCID and OpenAlex), ordered by the impact of the journal or series (two-year mean citedness in OpenAlex).

Full list of publications on ORCID

Information compiled from public sources: ORCID, OpenAlex, accessed on 20-10-2026. To correct or complete this profile, use the website’s content manager or contact the Department’s Director.