Dr. Yetao Tang is an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, working on environmental management and contaminated soil remediation. He received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Chemistry degree from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, in 1995. Then, he received Master of Science in Environmental Science and Doctor of Science in Environmental Science degrees from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, in 2000 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include biological roles of heavy metals and interactions between heavy metals and plants occurring either in or beyond the rhizosphere. His recent focus is on isotopic tracing of toxic metals for an insight into their transport and function in organisms.