Prof. Xian-Can Zhu obtained his doctorate from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology in Ecology 2010. From October 2013 to October 2014, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen. In 2020, he joined the College of Life Sciences at Anhui Normal University as a professor. His skills and expertise mainly include ecology, plant physiology, agronomy, soil science, crop science, agroecology, botany, plant biology, physiology, and photosynthesis.