Shimin LiuProfessor and Dr. Shimin Liu is an Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. He specializes in geomechanics and fluid dynamics and their applications in unconventional resources development, underground mining, crbon sequestration, and natural hazard prevention. His current research interests include flow of fluids in porous media (with application to gas flow in coal/shale, coalbed methane reservoir engineering, carbon sequestration in geologic media and abandoned coal mines), imaging (micro-X-ray computed tomography, synchrotron X-ray scattering, neutron scattering/diffracting, scanning/transmission electron microcopy) and analysis to study physical structure of rocks, flow-induced micro-structuring of rocks, geomechanical responses of unconventional reservoirs with depletion, mine ground control and mine ventilation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Coal Science and Technology (IJCS&T). Read More Read Less