Michael A. Abrams is a visiting professor at Imperial College London undertaking industry research projects and working with MSc/PhD students. Before joining Imperial College, Dr. Abrams was the Manager of Petroleum Systems for Apache’s Exploration and Production Technology team, research professor and manager petroleum systems for Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, and senior research geochemist at Exxon Production Research Company. Michael’s research interests include surface geochemistry, petroleum systems analysis, unconventional resource play evaluation, and regional petroleum charge analysis. Michael has chaired 2 AAPG Hedberg conferences (1994 and 2001), AAPG GTW workshop (2014), session co-chair at several AAPG conferences, and numerous conference presentations. He is a Section Editor (Organic Geochemistry) for the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, co-editor AAPG Memoir 66 Hydrocarbon Migration and its Near Surface Expression, and numerous international publications. Michael received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Geochemistry from the Imperial College London, M.S. in Geology from the University of Southern California, and B.S. in Geology from George Washington University.