Prof. Dr. Zhenhua Zhao is a Doctoral Supervisor at the Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lake of the Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, China. In 1996, he received a bachelor's degree in environmental protection from the School of Environment, Shanxi University. From 1996 to 2002, he received a master's degree and a doctorate from the School of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University. From 2002 to 2004, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Nanjing Soil Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He visited Michigan State University in the United States twice for visiting studies and academic exchanges from December 2014 to January 2016 and from June to September 2016. From 24 June 2018 to 23 September 2018, he visited Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom for 3 months. He is currently a director of the Water Environment Branch of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences and a member of the Jiangsu Water Conservancy Society, the Jiangsu Environmental Society, and the Soil Society.