Erfu Dai is the Director of Lhasa Plateau Ecological Comprehensive Experimental Station, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Peking University. Before his current role, he was an Associated Professor and Deputy Director at the Department of Global Change, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research. His research interests include the impact of climate change on ecosystem vulnerability and the analysis and simulation of land use/cover change.