Professor Bao Yuan is a professor and doctoral supervisor with a PhD in Geology Resources and Geological Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary, Canada. His professional roles include committee member of the Nanogeochemistry Professional Committee of the Chinese Geological Society and member of the Academic Committee of the Coalbed Gas Development Industry Innovation Alliance (Coalbed Gas National Center). He has received honors such as High-level Young Scientific Research Talent of the Ministry of Natural Resources and High-level Talent of Shaanxi Province, and serves as a reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and several provincial review panels. He has led four National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and one Chunhui Plan cooperative research project; published more than 100 papers; obtained seven Chinese invention patents; authored one monograph; and received multiple awards, including a Second Prize of the China Coal Industry Science and Technology Award (R1). His research covers unconventional oil and gas geology, microbial geology, and organic geochemistry, with pioneering contributions to microbial-enhanced coalbed gas production, coal reservoir bioremediation, and coalbed gas enrichment mechanisms.