Mark Shuster is deputy director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin overseeing the Bureau’s Energy Research Division. He also leads the GeoH2 consortium at the University of Texas at Austin. The GeoH2 consortium conducts research on geological and in situ generation of hydrogen, geological storage of hydrogen, and techno-economic and value chain analysis. In addition to leading GeoH2, Shuster was a co-author of the U.S. National Petroleum Council’s study on the deployment of low carbon intensity hydrogen. He joined the Bureau in 2016 after retiring from Shell. In Shuster’s 30-year career at Shell, he worked in upstream research and exploration in various roles including geologist, manager, vice president, and executive vice president with assignments in the United States, The Netherlands, Australia, Oman, and the U.A.E. He is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Geological Society of America. He is past president of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, former vice chair of the American Geosciences Institute Foundation, and Trustee of the AAPG Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wyoming and a B.S. from the University of the Pacific.