Prof. Dr. Haibo Zou received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Nanjing University. He completed his PhD studies in Geology at Florida State University in 1999 and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles, supported by a US National Science Foundation postdoc research fellowship. He is currently a full professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, USA. His research interests include the petrogenesis of igneous rocks; U-Th disequilibrium; Nd, Sr, Pb, Hf, Mg, and O isotope and trace element geochemistry; chemical geodynamics; and East Asian geology, geochronology, sedimental provenance, and geochemical modeling. He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS Fellow), a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA Fellow), the Treasurer and a member of Board of Directors of the Geochemical Society, and an Associate Editor for the Geological Society of America Bulletin (GSA Bulletin).