Alexander Mihai Popovici

Alexander Mihai Popovici is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Z-Terra Inc., a provider of state-of-the-art geophysical and geological technology, services and software for the upstream oil and gas industry.  He holds Ph.D. (1995) and M.Sc. (1990) degrees in geophysics from Stanford University, and an equivalent B.S. (1986) in geophysical and geological engineering from University of Bucharest, Romania. He escaped from Romania in 1986 and spent a year in a refugee camp in Austria. Dr. Popovici was co-founder and CEO of 3DGeo Inc.  He is the Honorary Consul of Romania in Houston. He has twelve patents in the field, over 100 publications in conference proceedings, books, trade journals, and research reports and has given numerous invited talks at conferences, geophysical associations, and geophysical workshops.  He has been a member of the SEG Research Committee, served as Associate Editor (Seismic Migration) for Geophysics, and is past Chairman and founding board member of Geoscientists Without Borders, an SEG Foundation program that funds humanitarian applications of geophysics around the world. He served on the SEG Board as Vice President and was the 2017 SEG Houston Technical Program Chairman. He is the Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH) President Elect.