Dr. Jie (Joe) Zhuang is a professor in Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, director of graduate studies in environmental and soil sciences, and faculty lead of cluster hire initiative of resilient agriculture and forest systems (RAFS) at the University of Tennessee (UT). He is also affiliated faculty of UT’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment. He has served on many national award committees as well as many review panels of national and international funding agencies. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Zhuang's research topics range from soil hydrology to crop-water relation, pore-scale carbon-water interaction, fate and transport of colloids (viruses, bacteria, nanoparticles) and molecular contaminants (emerging organic chemicals, metals, and nutrients) in soils and engineering porous media under variable flow conditions, and food-energy-water nexus. In recent years, he links food-energy-water nexus to environmental and soil sciences by innovating strategies and solutions for soil restoration, safe reclaimed water irrigation, and soil resilience to climatic stresses. He has published over 160 refereed articles and book chapters and over 80 conference abstracts. He has been the editor or editorial board member for 13 journals and served over 60 journals as ad hoc reviewer. Currently, Dr. Zhuang leads projects aiming to develop climate-smart food-energy-water nexus on small farms for transforming them into circular bioeconomy systems. In teaching, he provides undergraduate and graduate students with transdisciplinary training for understanding the impacts of food-energy-water nexus and circular agriculture practices on the resilience of environment and food system.