Shen YU obtained Ph.D in Soil Chemistry and Biochemistry from Zhejiang University and he is now Associate Director of Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health and Researcher in Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Director of the Chinese Society of Ecology and the member of the soil Environment Committee of the Chinese soil Society. He had won Hundred Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. His research interests mainly focus on Environmental change under development and its geo-chemical and bio-chemical driving mechanisms.