Lu Zhang is an Associate Professor and Master Supervisor at the Vice Dean of the Department of Remote Sensing Science and Technology, College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China. She earned a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Conservation from Beijing Forestry University in 2010. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University and the Yellow River Water Conservancy Research Institute from 2017 to 2022. From 2023 to 2024, she was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. Her research interests include soil and water conservation, as well as ecological remote sensing.