About the Guest:

Pete Smith is the professor specializing on soils and global change at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) and the science director of the Scottish Climate Change Centre of Expertise (ClimateXChange). His interests include climate change mitigation, soils, agriculture, food systems, ecosystem services modelling, and nature-based solutions.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Fellow of the Institute of Soil Scientists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, a Fellow of the European Science Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London).

About the Guest:

Steve Long has served as Principal Investigator and Director of RIPE since its inception in 2012. He is the Ikenberry Endowed Chair of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois. Steve's research has increased our understanding of how global climate change is affecting plants and how photosynthetic efficiency in crops may be improved to affect sustainable yield increases. His expertise ranges from plant molecular biology and mathematical modeling to in silico crop design and field analyses of the impacts of atmospheric change and transgenic modifications of photosynthesis on crop performance. Steve is also the director of Renewable Oil Generated with Ultra-productive Energycane (ROGUE) He served as Deputy Director of the UC Berkeley-U Illinois-Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) until 2012. He is Founding and Chief Editor of Global Change Biology, of GCB Bioenergy and of in silico Plants.

About the Guest:

Luo Yiqi is the “Liberty Hyde Bailey” Professor at Cornell University. He has long been engaged in research on ecosystem response and feedback to global change, the global carbon cycle, and related fields. He chaired or co-chaired nearly 80 scientific research projects. He has published 4 monographs and edited books, and nearly 600 academic papers, including 62 papers in Nature, Science, their sub-journals, and PNAS. His papers have been cited 75,000 times, with an H-index of 138. He has been selected as a Clarivate Web of Science™ Highly Cited Researcher (2018-2023), as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016), and as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2018).

About the Guest:

He Jinsheng is a professor at Peking University and the director of the National Key Laboratory of Grass Seed Innovation and Grassland Agro-Ecosystem at Lanzhou University. He is mainly engaged in teaching and research on global change and the grassland ecosystem carbon cycle, biodiversity, grassland near-nature restoration, etc. He has been funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National 973 Program, and the National Key Research and Development Program to study the response and adaptation of grassland ecosystems, especially alpine ecosystems, to global changes and human activities. He has published more than 200 SCI papers in important international journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, and Global Change Biology. At present, he is also the vice chairman of the Chinese Grass Society and the convener of the eighth Discipline Evaluation Group (Grass Science) of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

About the Guest:

Shi Dalin is a professor at Xiamen University and the director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science. Committed to marine biogeochemistry and global change research, he has been funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Key Research and Development Program. His research results have been published in journals such as Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Limnology and Oceanography, and have won the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education and the Xplorer Prize. He is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of GEOTRACES, an international study of the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and isotopes.

About the Guest:

He Qiang is a professor and PhD supervisor at Fudan University and the director of the Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering at Fudan University, Ministry of Education. He has long been engaged in research on coastal zone ecology and conservation and restoration, focusing on China's typical blue carbon ecosystems, and the relationship between basic ecological issues, such as animal and plant interaction and conservation and restoration practices. He has published a series of papers in Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Current Biology, Ecology Letters, and other journals. The research results were selected as China's top ten scientific and technological advances in ecological environment in 2023.

About the Guest:

Shuijin Hu received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is now a tenured professor at North Carolina State University, a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His research focuses on plant-soil microbial interactions and their responses to global environmental changes, producing a number of internationally important results on microbial regulation of carbon and nitrogen cycles in terrestrial ecosystems. He has published more than 200 SCI papers, among which more than 40 have been published in Nature, Science, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Communications, TREE, Ecology Letters and GCB.

About the Guest:

Yu Zicheng is a national QR project professor at Northeast Normal University, a special researcher at the Northeast Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the academic director of the National Key Laboratory of Black Land Protection and Utilization, and a National Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar. He has been awarded the Changjiang Distinguished Professorship by the Ministry of Education. He has been engaged in the study of peat geology, paleoecology, and carbon dynamics for a long time. He has chaired more than a dozen American NSF and NSFC projects. He has published more than 150 SCI papers, which have been cited more than 18,000 times. He is ranked among the top 2% of the world’s top scientists for lifetime scientific influence. He is currently an associate editor/editorial board member of Holocene, National Science Review, and other journals.

About the Guest:

Wan Shiqiang is a professor at Hebei University. He has been engaged in research on global change ecology for a long time. He has designed and established a series of global change field control experiment platforms and has chaired national projects such as the major scientific research program of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. He has made a series of original achievements, published more than 180 papers in international journals, and has been included in the list of China's highly cited scholars, the global 1,000 high-impact scientists in the field of climate change research, and the Chinese scientists in the field of ecology and evolution.

About the Guest:

Wang Shaopeng is an associate professor and researcher in the Department of Ecology, School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University. He is mainly engaged in theoretical ecology research, focusing on community diversity maintenance, the diversity-stability relationship, and food web structure and function. He has recently developed a landscape-scale species coexistence theory and a multiscale stability theory, providing theoretical tools for predicting multiscale responses to diversity and stability. The research results have been published in journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Ecology & Evolution and Ecology Letters. He is a member of the editorial board of journals such as Ecological Monographs and Ecology Letters.

About the Guest:

Chen Lei is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Life Sciences at Sichuan University. He was selected by a national young talent project and has chaired the Young Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Plan. His main work is to explore the impact of global climate change on forest ecosystems at different spatio-temporal scales by combining field monitoring networks, control experiments, statistical mathematical models, and other means. In recent years, he has published a series of research results as first or corresponding author in internationally renowned journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography.