Prof. Dr. Bin Zhang received a B.S. and M.S. in agronomy in 1988 and 1991 from the Nanjing Agricultural University (1988). Since then he worked in the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and received a Ph.D in Soil Science/soil physics in 1997. Following a Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Christian-Albrechts- University Kiel (1999-2000), he was appointed Associate and then Professor of Soil and Water Conservation in the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Director of the Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is author or co-author of over 60 scientific journal publications in Chinese and English. He served as the second vice Chair of the Commission 3.4 of the IUSS (2002-2006) and board member of Soil and Water Conservation in Southern China (2000-2005). He is actively involved in interdisciplinary and international working groups in agricultural, environmental and ecological sciences. He developed closed links with UK, Germany, USA and Nepal etc through internationally cooperative projects and international training workshops. He was and is coordinating multidisciplinary projects focusing on soil and water conservation, soil management on soil physics and water use, with an emphasis on the interactions of physical and biological processes of the managed agro-ecosystems and restored degraded natural ecosystems from soil aggregate scale to small watershed scale and the ecological functions of the interactions.