Prof. Dr. Congzhi Zhang is an Associate Researcher at the State Experimental Station of agro-ecosystems in Fengqiu, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed his PhD and MS studies in Soil Science at the Nanjing Institute of Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his BS in Biological Sciences and Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the Central China Normal University. He has published more than thirty papers, including eight SCI/EI papers. His research areas include soil matter cycling and energy transfer and the water--cycle in the soil--plant--atmosphere continuum (SPAC).