Dr. Xiaolin Zhang is an Associate Professor at the College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Nanjing University and was a joint Ph.D. student at the University of Queensland. She is a member of the Resource Geography Committee of the China Society of Natural Resources. Her research focuses on land system science, multifunctional landscape planning, and ecosystem service management. She is particularly interested in optimizing land use and landscape patterns to enhance ecosystem service supply, improve land use efficiency, and support sustainable territorial development. Her work integrates spatial analysis, statistical modeling, and scenario simulation to examine trade-offs, synergies, underlying mechanisms, and future trajectories among agricultural production, ecological conservation, and urban development. She explores spatial optimization and zoning strategies to promote the coordinated development of multifunctional landscapes. In addition, she assesses the impacts of land use change on ecosystem functioning and habitat risk dynamics to inform evidence-based land use policy and planning. Dr. Zhang has led and participated in interdisciplinary and cross-regional projects related to systematic conservation, ecosystem service assessment, and multifunctional land management. With international academic experience, she is committed to advancing integrated approaches for sustainable land governance.