Prof. Xiaobin Dong

Prof. Xiaobin Dong currently serves as a professor at the College of Resources, Beijing Normal University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Agronomy from the Agricultural University of Hebei in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. from the College of Agronomy and Biotechnology at China Agricultural University in 2003. In 2002, he also conducted collaborative research at the International Botanical Institute in the Netherlands. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Resources, Beijing Normal University. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the H.T. Odum Center for Environmental Policy Research at the University of Florida. He is a member of the Tillage Systems Division of the Chinese Society of Agriculture and a member of the International Energy Value Society. His research interests include ecosystem services and human well-being, systems ecology, industrial ecology and regional sustainable development, as well as macro-agriculture and ecological-productive paradigm studies.