Pu-Jun Wang obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in geosciences at Jilin University in 1982, 1989, and 1994. He visited Tübingen University in Germany as a research fellow at the AvH Foundation from 1999 to 2000, emphasizing volcanic and transgression events. He obtained a professional position in 1982 and became a full professor in 1996 at Jilin University. Since then, he has focused his research on sedimentary basins, especially on the volcanic reservoirs and event deposits of China. He has devoted much of his time to ICDP Cretaceous scientific drilling in the Songliao Basin since 2005 as the geologist-in-chief. He is also the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Northeast Asian Biological Evolution and Environment of the Ministry of Education and the director of the Institute of Energy Geology. He is also the deputy editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition)” and an editorial board member of magazines such as “World Geology” and “Geological Review”. He has published more than 100 papers and five books on sedimentary basin research, especially the Songliao Basin, in both Chinese and English journals such as AAPG Bulletin, Earth-Science Reviews, Int J Earth Sci, and Acta Geol Sin. His research interests include Sedimentary basin and oil and gas geology, volcanic rock reservoirs and their oil and gas reservoirs, event sedimentology, Changbai Mountain volcanic geology, and disasters.