Bei Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degree from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Indiana University Bloomington in 2020. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Indiana Geological and Water Survey, Indiana University Bloomington from 2020 to 2021. Liu’s area of expertise is organic petrology, shale oil and gas, and coal geology. He has published more than 20 research papers related to shale and coal studies. Liu is the recipient of the AAPG J. C. “Cam” Sproule Memorial Award. Liu is currently on the AAPG EMD Tight Oil and Gas Committee and the Academic Editor of International Journal of Coal Science & Technology.

Organic petrology; Coal petrology; Coal geology; Black shale deposition and diagenesis; Critical minerals in sedimentary rocks; Shale oil and gas

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• Critical minerals in Devonian metalliferous black shales of the Illinois Basin
• Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
• Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
• Acquisition of an X-ray Diffraction System to Enhance Research Capabilities in Mineralogical Studies at the Indiana Geological and Water Survey
• Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 6