Thomas Aigner studied Geology and Paleontology at the Universities of Stuttgart, Tuebingen and Reading/England.

His diploma thesis was on the Geology and Geoarcheology of the Egyptian pyramides plateau in Giza (1982).

For his PhD dissertation on storm depositional systems (1985) he worked at the Senckenberg-Institute of Marine Geology in Wilhelmshaven and spent one year at the University of Miami in Florida.

He then became an exploration geologist at Shell Research in Rijswijk/Holland and Houston/ Texas focussing on basin analysis and modelling (1985-1990). Adjunct lecturer for applied sedimentology at the University of Wuerzburg (1988-1990).

Since 1991 professor and head of the sedimentary geology group at the University of Tuebingen.

1996 he was an 'European Distinguished Lecturer' for American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

In 2007/8 he spent a sabbatical with PDO and Shell Qatar. His current projects focus is on sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterisation/modelling in outcrop and subsurface.

Main discipline

• Applied Sedimentology of carbonates and clastics (Reservoirs, Aquifers, Raw Materials)
• Epeiric carbonate systems
• Sequence Stratigraphy
• Basin and Facies Analysis
• Stratigraphic and 3-D reservoir modelling
• Regional Geology

Current research projects

• Analysis of the Atlantic continental margin, offshore Morocco
• Reservoir Analog Study on Carbonate Shoal Geobodies, Khuff Formation, Oman
• Sequence stratigraphy, reservoir and seal geobodies of the Sudair and Jilh Formation in Outcrop and ubsurface, Oman
• High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the Late Permian to Early Triassic Khuff Formation in Central Ghawar Field, Eastern Saudi Arabia
• Reservoir modelling of Lower Cretaceous carbonates in the Middle East
• Carbonate Geobody Project
• Facies and 3-D reservoir modelling of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous in the Lower Saxony Basin