Hu Cheng is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, where he has served since 2019. He obtained his Bachelor's (2014) degree from the Northwest A&F University and Ph.D. (2019) degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). Recognized as an Outstanding Young Backbone Teacher under Jiangsu Province’s “Blue-Green Project” and selected for the Jiangsu Young Science and Technology Talent Support Program, Dr. Cheng specializes in the synergistic regulation processes and mechanisms of soil carbon sequestration and pollution mitigation. He has served as the principal investigator for several prestigious grants, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Special Grant). To date, he has authored or co-authored over 30 SCI-indexed papers as the first or corresponding author and holds 9 granted national invention patents as the first inventor. Additionally, he serves on the early career editorial boards of Biochar, Carbon Research, Chinese Journal of Soil Science (Soils), and Acta Pedologica Sinica.