Dr. George Oluwole Akintola is a geoscientist positioned as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, in the Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture at the University of Venda. He has achieved the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) Y2 Rating, a recognition granted to promising early-career researchers with a track record of high-quality, impactful scholarly outputs and international standing. Dr. Akintola’s research specialization lies in the evaluation and extraction of energy resources within the field of Energy Geology. His work focuses on unconventional oil and gas generation, critical minerals, rare earth elements, and geothermal energy.