Dr. Junliang Zou is a soil scientist who believes that healthy soil is capable of providing most terrestrial ecosystem services. He specializes in the carbon cycle that plays an important role in regulating global climate change and has expertise in experimental warming and land-use change on greenhouse gas emission, soil organic matter dynamics in a changing climate, tree responses to environmental stress. Awarded the Excellent Youth Scholar from Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (BAAFS) in 2019, the ‘Shuimu Scholar’ from Tsinghua University in 2017, and the seed funding from University College Dublin in 2014. Dr. Zou has been published in high-impact peer-review journals, such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Global Change Biology, Environmental Research Letters, Science of the Total Environment, and etc. He holds a life science degree from University College Dublin, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of soil ecology.