Ganapathy Shanmugam is a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his bachelor degree from Annamalai University in 1965

graduated from China Northwest University in 1988, received master degree, and PhD from the same University in 1995, 2003, respectively

University of Bucharest

received a master's degree and a doctorate from the Bari University in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He did postdoctoral research in sedimentary Geology at Bari University

Mats O. Molén is an independent researcher, through Umeå FoU AB in Sweden.

currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST)