**About the Editor**

**Reza Rezaee** (Professor) of Curtin's Department of Petroleum Engineering has a PhD in Reservoir Characterization. His research has been mostly on integrated solutions for reservoir characterization, formation evaluation, and petrophysics. He has also worked on the application of artificial intelligence in the oil and gas industry for many years. Currently, he is focused on unconventional gas including shale gas and tight gas sand studies. He has over 27 years' experience in academia being responsible for both teaching and research. During his career, he has been engaged in several research projects supported by major national and international oil and gas companies and these commissions, together with his supervisory work at various universities, have involved a wide range of achievements. During his research career, he has led several major research projects funded by various oil and gas companies. He has received a total of more than \$3.2M funds through his collaborative research projects. He has supervised over 75 M.Sc. and PhD students during his university career to date. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and is the author of 5 books on petroleum geology, logging and log interpretation, and gas shale reservoirs. As a founder of the "Unconventional Gas Research Group" of Australia, he has established a unique and highly sophisticated research lab at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University. This lab was established to research petrophysical evaluation of tight gas sands and shale gas formations.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Improved Oil and Gas Recovery journal, Associate Editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology, and Associate Editor of Geofluids.
