Jiulan Dai holds a B.S., MA.S., and Ph.D., all from the College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, and is currently a Professor at the Environment Research Institute, Shandong University. Jiulan Dai was also a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Life Science, Shandong University (2005–2008) and a Visiting Scholar in the Soil and Water Science Department at the University of Florida (2017–2018). Jiulan Dai’s main research areas include prevention and control of farmland soil pollution and ecological restoration; agricultural non-point source pollution control and efficient fertilizer utilization; health and safety evaluation of farmland soils; and soil microbial ecology.