Prof. Dr. Yunjun Yao currently serves as a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He received his PhD degree in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Peking University in 2010. During 2008-2009, he was a Joint Ph.D. Student with the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Since August 2010, he has been working at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Beijing Normal University. In addition, Dr. Yao also serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Processes, an Editorial Board Member of Remote Sensing, a Member of the Quantitative Remote Sensing Branch of China Remote Sensing Application Association, and a Member of the Agricultural and Rural Geographic Information Branch of the China Geographic Information Industry Association. He has (co-)authored more than 150 scientific articles. His research covers ecology, hydrology, and remote sensing, including ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, climate change, the estimation of evapotranspiration, and retrieval of surface biophysical parameters by remote sensing.