Dr. Adnan Mustafa completed his PhD in Soil Science from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. He spent a few months at the Czech Academy of Sciences as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Brno University of Technology, and simultaneously works as a Researcher at the Mendel University in Brno and Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation mechanisms, SOC stability, protection mechanisms of SOC, fractionation of SOC, and advancing this field across different land uses. He also works on plant--microbe interactions, biochar production, and utilization for agricultural crop production and environmental remediation.