Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University
Brad Sageman is Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding the Earth's carbon cycle, including controls on natural variations in the cycle, perturbations from fossil fuel use, and predictions of future carbon cycle behavior in a warming world. At Weinberg, Brad teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in physical geology, sedimentary geology, and paleobiology, among other subject areas.