Guanghui Dong has been a Professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, since 2014. From 2009 to 2014, he was an Associate Professor at the Research School of Arid Environment and Climate Change, Lanzhou University, and from 2005 to 2009, he was a Lecturer at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He obtained a B.Sc. in Agronomy from Northeast Agriculture University in 1999, an M.Sc. in Ecology from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Peking University in 2002. His research directions include environmental archaeology; anthropology; origin and spread of agriculture in Eurasia; prehistoric human settlement in the Tibet Plateau; and prehistoric culture exchange across Eurasia.