Yang Yu, Ph.D. in Engineering, received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University in June 2008; M.S. degree from Beijing Forestry University in January 2012; M.S. degree from the University of Western Australia in Australia in March 2014; and Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Munich in Germany in May 2017. Work experience: from April 2014 to August 2017, as a project coordinator at Technical University of Munich, Germany; from September 2017 to present, at Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher, working on climate change, hydrology, and ecological environment modeling in arid zones.