Zheng Duan is an Associate Professor of Remote Sensing and Hydrological Modelling at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University. He is also a Principal investigator at the BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate and a Researcher at MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth System. He holds a B.S. in Physical Geography from Henan University, an M.S. in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology. After graduation, he was a Consultant/Post-doctoral researcher at the Land & Water Mapping Company, and UNESCO-IHE, an Assistant Professor at the Technical University Munich, and a Lecturer at Lancaster University. His research interests include satellite remote sensing, hydrological modeling, water balance of lakes and reservoirs, glacier modeling, ecosystem modeling, and application of machine learning.