Prof. Dr. Zhengqin Xiong is currently a Professor, doctoral supervisor at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. Her main research areas are carbon and nitrogen cycles and ecological environment, focusing on the research of carbon and nitrogen cycles and ecological environment in typical intensive agricultural rice field and vegetable field ecosystems. She has published 115 SCI papers and 61 papers in Chinese journals. She was selected into the 2009 New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education and was named one of the Top Ten Young Science and Technology Stars in Jiangsu Province in 2014. She has been selected as Elsevier’s “Highly Cited Chinese Scholar” in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 for four consecutive years, and was selected as one of the Top 100,000 Scientists in the World. She won the honor of Outstanding Tutor of Graduate Education at Nanjing Agricultural University in 2023 and served as the Section editor-in-chief of the SCI journal Agronomy, editorial board member of Climate Smart Agriculture, editorial board member of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer, member of the Biochar Professional Committee, and member of the Nitrogen Working Group of the Chinese Society of Soil Science.