Ph.D. in Geology, Petroleum Geology, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

M.S. Geosciences, Petroleum Geology, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

BASc. Geology, Geology and Petroleum Geology, Kuwait University, State of Kuwait

Assistant Professor - Department of Earth and Environmental science- College of Science -Kuwait University - 2019- to date.

Burial history and basin analysis 

Source rock maturation

Zircon Geochronology 

Tectonic and flexure subsidence of foreland basins

Tectonics and paleogeography

Alsalem, O.B., Fan, M., Ghosh, N., and Basu, A.R., 2021. Sandstone petrographic and mudstone REE and Nd-isotopic evidence for Middle Pennsylvanian arrival of Gondwana sediments in the Fort Worth Basin: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 579, no. 110590.

Alsalem, O.B., Fan, M., Zamora, J., Xie, X., and Griffin, W.R., 2018. Paleozoic Sediment Dispersal Before and During the Collision between Laurentia and Gondwana in the Fort Worth Basin, USA: Geosphere, v. 14, no.  1, p. 325-342. 

Alsalem, O.B., Fan, M., Xie, X., 2017. Subsidence and Burial History of the Fort Worth Basin Reflect Prolonged Ouachita Orogeny during the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian: AAPG Bulletin. v. 101, no. 11, p. 1813–1833.