Mingjun Chen is currently an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation- Southwest Petroleum University. He was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University in 2020 and studied at the University of Calgary in 2016 as a graduate visiting student in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a PhD degree in Oil and Gas Reservoir Development Engineering from Southwest Petroleum University. His research interests are formation damage control technology, multiscale gas transport mechanisms and petrophysics of unconventional reservoirs. He also focuses on high-temperature petrophysics in deep reservoirs and hot dry rock.