BIO - Dr Baotang Shen Dr Baotang Shen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources. Dr Shen obtained his first degree in mining engineering in 1985 in China. He obtained his PhD in rock mechanics in Sweden in 1993, and then worked with Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) as a research fellow in 1994-95. Since 1995 he has been with CSIRO and focused on issues related to mining Geomechanics, mining engineering and mining environment. Dr Shen is specialised in coal bursts, monitoring instrumentations, numerical modelling, backfill technologies and rock fracture mechanics.