Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu is a world leader in systems integration for sustainability (e.g., integration of ecology with social sciences, policy, and technologies for understanding and promoting global sustainability). He holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, and serves as director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. He is particularly keen to connect seemingly unconnected issues, for example, telecoupling, divorce, and environmental sustainability. Prof. Liu is a former president of US-IALE (U.S. Regional Association, International Association for Landscape Ecology) and is chairing the Committee on “Research at Multiple Scales” of The National Academies. He has served on editorial boards of many international journals such as Science. His pioneering work has been recognized by numerous prestigious awards, including the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America, Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters & the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the World Sustainability Award from the MDPI Sustainability Foundation in Switzerland. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.