Prof. Guangqing Chi is a Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Pennsylvania State University. He is also an environmental demographer with a focus on socio-environmental systems. His research seeks to understand the interactions between human populations and the built and natural environments and to identify important social, environmental, infrastructural, and institutional assets to help vulnerable populations adapt and become resilient to environmental changes. His research interests include environmental demography, socio-environmental systems, population–infrastructure dynamics, spatiotemporal modeling, and data-intensive social sciences. Prof. Chi received a Ph.D. in Environmental Demography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.