Prof. Dr. Genxing Pan graduated from Zhejiang University (formerly Zhejiang Agricultural University) in 1982 and received his Ph.D. in Soil Science from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1988. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside in 2000 and 2003. He became a full professor in 1993 and served as a chair professor of soil science and the director of Institute of Resources, Ecosystem and  Environment of Agriculture at the Nanjing Agriculture University since 2001. His research covers soil organic matter and carbon sequestration, crop productivity and soil health in agriculture. He serves as adjunct professor at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology and the chair person of the SCOPE Soil Health Commission. He has also served as an academic editor of Plants and the chief editor of Soil Science and　Environment．For the last decade, he has been listed as one of the world's leading scientists in climate change mitigation, soil and agronomy, and ecology and environment studies indexed by Claviat Analysis, Elsevier and Stanford University.