About the Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Dr. **Mario Tobias** received his Diploma Degree in Biology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in 1997, and then received his Doctoral Degree (PhD in Biology) in 2000, as well as a Diploma Degree in Business Administration in 2002 at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. In 2007, he received his second Doctoral Degree (PhD in Business Administration) at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2000-2005, he was a business manager of Environment and Sustainability in Bundesverband der Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neuen Medien (BITKOM), and then served as an executive board member with responsibility in business area Technologies and Services of BITKOM from 2005 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Secretary General of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. Currently, since 2014, he has been the Managing Director of the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Potsdam). Since 2015, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Automotive Management and Industrial Production at Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Dr. **XUE Bing**, born in January 1982, received his PhD degree in Geography from Lanzhou University of China in June 2009. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and the Principal Investigator (Head) of the Research Center for Industrial Ecology & Sustainability at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Since January 2014, he has also been a joint research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, Germany. His research interests mainly focus on the interactions of the human-environmental system and sustainable climate governance, based on the techniques of urban and environmental computing, by employing trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches. In 2011, he received the Green Talent Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF), and was awarded as a Humboldtian in 2014 by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He also serves voluntarily for various international societies and local communities; he is a reviewer for international journals, a policy consultant expert for Chinese local governments, *etc*.
