Xiaoke Zhang is Professor at the Institute of Applied Ecology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, China. From Mar 2015–Mar 2016 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include soil nematode community ecology, bioindication of soil nematode communities, and ecology function of soil nematode communities, and his research in the area has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.