Adjunct Research Scientist, EAS
Research Geologist, IGWS
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, coal geology, and critical minerals. He has published more than 20 research papers related to shale and coal studies. Liu is currently on the AAPG EMD Tight Oil and Gas Committee and the Academic Editor of International Journal of Coal Science & Technology.
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