Zhong Lu received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1992, and a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska in 1996. He was a physical scientist with US Geological Survey during 1997-2013, and is now a professor and endowed Shuler-Foscue chair at Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (www.smu.edu/dedman/lu). His research interests include technique developments of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) processing and their applications to the study of natural and human-induced geohazards. He has produced more than 260 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters focused on InSAR techniques and applications, and a book on “InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes: Monitoring a Volcanic Arc from Space” with Dan Dzurisin. He is a member of NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Science Team (2012 - present), NASA Venus SAR Science Team (2023-present), NASA/JPL OPERA Science Team (2023 – present), Editor-in-Chief of the journal GeoHazards, and Associate Editor of journals Remote Sensing, Scientific Reports, and Frontier in Earth Sciences.