Dr. Sergey N. Kivalov is a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory of soil nitrogen and carbon cycles at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences. He completed his PhD studies in Atmospheric Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY. He was recently awarded the Best Researcher Award from SCIFAX. He has published more than 50 papers and serves as a reviewer for various WOS and Scopus journals. His teaching disciplines include boundary-layer meteorology and carbon sequestration, and his interests include biosphere-atmosphere interaction, and ecosystem responses and resilience to natural and anthropogenic disturbances.