President, Basin Dynamics, LLC

Jonathan Rotzien

Jonathan R. Rotzien is President of Basin Dynamics. He has worked in most of the world’s petroleum producing regions and specializes in leading corporate projects, research programs and professional training courses pertaining to oil and gas exploration and production. In addition to his business, he serves in faculty and research roles at University of Houston, University of Texas at Austin, South Dakota Mines, and The Drifters Research Group with the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute. He currently holds industry appointments with Subsurface Consultants & Associates (SCA) and HOT Energy Group. With over 100 publications including short courses, his most recent works include Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Application (Elsevier, 2022), written by 62 authors from 20 countries, and the 2nd edition of The Explorer’s Mindset: Lessons in Leadership in Applied Geoscience and the Energy Industry (Amazon, 2025), now featured in AAPG Explorer. He holds a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.