Prof.  Xin Sun

Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.

Research Interests: how global change factors influence the soil biodiversity and explore the underlying mechanisms.

Dr.  Stefan Geisen

Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Research Interests: soil biodiversity interactions; particularly between microbiome predators (protists and nematodes) and their bacterial and fungal prey.

Prof.  Marcel van der Heijden

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Research Interests: ecology; mycorrhizas; agricultural; sustainability; soil biodiversity; plant-soil-interactions.

Prof.  Anton Potapov

Soil Zoology Division, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Gorlitz, Görlitz, Germany.

Research Interests: soil food webs; soil biodiversity; ecosystem functioning; energy flux; stable isotopes; springtails.

Prof.  Yakov Kuzyakov

• 1. Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Department of Agricultural Soil Science, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 2. Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia.

Research Interests: soil science; soil biogeochemistry; isotopes; land use; rhizosphere.

Prof.  Rong Li

College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

Research Interests: soil microbial ecology; microbial-plant interaction mechanisms.

Prof.  Manqiang Liu

College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

Research Interests: soil fertility; agroecology; soil biology; environmental impact; assessment; sustainable agriculture; organic farming; organic agriculture; soil science; ecology; zoology.

Prof.  Cindy Prescott

Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Research Interests: nutrient cycling; soil ecology; forest nutrition; ecological restoration.

Prof.  Johannes Rousk

Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Research Interests: microbial ecology; soil ecology; biogeochemistry; microbial growth efficiency; fungal growth; bacterial growth; microbial carbon budget.

Prof.  Thibaud Decaens

CEFE, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.

Research Interests: community ecology; macro-ecology; biogeography; soil ecology; terrestrial invertebrates.

Prof.  Marta Novo

Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: evolution; genetics; genomics; conservation biology; sequencing; invasive species; ecology and evolution; ecology; soil; biodiversity.

Prof.  Yanjiang Cai

College of Environment and Resources, College of Carbon Neutrality, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: soil carbon cycling; soil nitrogen cycling; soil microbial ecology; soil ecology; greenhouse gas mitigation; soil health.

Prof.  Uffe Nielsen

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.

Research Interests: soil ecology.

Prof.  Fuzhong Wu

School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.

Research Interests: carbon; climate change; soil; environment; carbon sequestration; litter decomposition; soil ecology.

Dr.  Frank Hagedorn

Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

Research Interests: turnover and stability of soil organic matter; carbon and nutrient cycling under a changing climate and land-use; transport and transformation of nitrogen in forest soils and catchments; stable isotopes 13c and 15n; controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen; treeline dynamics.

Dr.  Stephan Hättenschwiler

CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.

Research Interests: plant-soil interactions; litter decomposition; and nutrient cycling.