Dr. Bingran Ma currently works as an Associate Researcher at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. He obtained a Bachelor of Ecology from Liaoning University, a Master of Environmental Science from Ocean University of China and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Beijing Normal University. His research areas are nature reserve planning and management, conservation effectiveness evaluation, land use/cover change simulation, ecosystem service accounting, landscape pattern analysis, etc.
Prof. Dr. Wei Wang currently works as a researcher at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences and concurrently serves as a doctoral supervisor at Tongji University. He obtained a Bachelor of Biology from the College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, a Master's and Doctoral degrees in Zoology from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas are: National park construction and management, evaluation of nature reserve protection effectiveness, biodiversity survey and monitoring, nature reserve ecosystem services and regional sustainable development, etc.