Dr. Hu Ding is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor with a PhD from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. Selected for the "Thousand-Level Talent" Program in Guizhou Province, he is mainly engaged in key processes of the carbon cycle in watersheds, soil–sediment–water–air multi-interface material exchange, and research on in situ monitoring, epigenetic environmental biogenic element circulation, carbon isotope geochemistry theory and application, etc. He has hosted/participated in many international, domestic, national, provincial, and ministerial-level projects, and he has published more than 20 papers. He is a lifelong member of the Chinese Society of Minerals, Petrology, and Geochemistry and a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Society of Minerals, Petrology and Geochemistry.