Dr. Wenxiu Zou received the B.Sc. degree from Northeast Agricultural University, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2011. She was a Visiting Student at University of Saskatchewan, Canada, from May 2009 to June 2010. From 2018 to 2019, she was a Visiting Scholar at Iowa State University. She has been working at the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since July 2011. She is a Researcher and a Doctoral Supervisor. Her research interests mainly focus on field of soil science, the processes and mechanisms of soil fertility regulation, and the optimization of soil structure and microbial regulation processes.