Dr. Bojie Fu is a distinguished professor of Geography and Landscape Ecology. He is the honorary Dean of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University and Professor of Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an elected Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, International Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His research areas are landscape pattern and ecological processes, land use and land cover change, ecosystem services and sustainable development. Prof. Fu is the Vice President of the International Geographical Union (2018-2026), former Vice President of Future Earth China Committee (2014-2022), former President of the Geographical Society of China (2015-2019), former Vice President of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (2009-2013). He won numerous prestigious awards for his seminal accomplishments, including the Distinguished Service Award of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, The Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the European Union of Geosciences, China National Natural Science Prize, TWAS - Lenovo Science Award, the Tan Kah Kee Earth Science Award – Earth Sciences, and the third National Innovation Excellence Prize. Prof. Fu has published more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 10 books with more than 400 papers published in SCI-indexed journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Science Advances, National Science Review, etc. He serves as Editor in Chief of many journals such as Geography and Sustainability, Chinese Geographical Science, and Acta Ecologica Sinica.