GSAf Newsletter Editor & Information Officer (since July 2018); GSAf Councillor North Africa (2016–2018)
Dr. Tamer Abu-Alam is an Egyptian researcher living and working in Norway at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. His research also utilizes numerical/thermodynamic modeling, geochemistry, geochronology and structural geology to understand tectonic processes. Between 2014 to 2018, Dr. Abu-Alam developed a GIS database for Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Dr. Abu-Alam served the GSAf as the councillor for North Africa from 2016–2018. In July 2018, he was nominated and elected as the Newsletter Editor and the Information Officer of the Geological Society of Africa.
Twenty-four articles in peer-reviewed international journals, two book contributions, nineteen oral presentations, thirty-seven posters. h-index: 9, citations: 223.