Prof. Shaoqi Kong graduated from Tianjin University in June 2011 with a B.S. degree, from Taiyuan University of Technology in June 2015 with an M.S. degree, and from Taiyuan University of Technology in December 2019 with a Ph.D. degree. He conducted full-time postdoctoral research in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University from 2020 to 2022 (during which he also worked as a research specialist in the Shanxi Clean Energy Research Institute of Tsinghua University), and joined the Department of Mining Engineering, School of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology in July 2022. He is currently a research scientist in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University. He participated in one major special project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (large-scale oil and gas field and coal bed methane development), one national key R&D program (research on the mechanism of flow heat transfer in high temperature and high-pressure cracking), one higher school science and technology innovation program of the Department of Education of Shanxi Province, and one youth fund for free exploration project of the Department of Science and Technology of Shanxi Province. Research Areas: Shale Gas, Coalbed Methane and Tight Sandstone Gas Co-exploitation (Three-Gas Co-exploitation); Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS); Geothermal Research and Development.