Ihsan Al-Aasm earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Baghdad and his Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. He worked at the Geological Survey of Iraq from 1978-1980 as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa from 1984-1986, and then, he worked as assistant professor (1986-1988) at the University of Ottawa. He joined the University of Windsor in 1988, and he is now a full professor at the School of the Environment. His principle area of research is petrologic and chemical attributes of carbonate and siliciclastic diagenesis, dolomitization, reservoir characterization and environmental geochemistry. He acted as an associate editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Research, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Canadian Journal of Earth Science, Journal of Paleogeography, Arabian J. of Geosciences, Minerals and holds memberships in AAPG, GAC, SEPM, and IAS. He published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals.