Yang Yunfengis an professor whose research interest is in the area of microbial environmental genomics.Heisthedeputy director of the centerfor grassland microbiome. In the past five years, 63 SCI papers, 7 Chinese core journal papers and 3 book chapters have been published. Among them, as the first or correspondent author, six articles published in the ISME Journal (the first in the research journal of ecological first-level disciplines) and one journal paper entitled "Nature Climate Change" were published. SCI was cited more than 3,400 times and the H index was 32. He is currently the deputy editor of BMC Microbiology, the deputy editor of Soil Ecology Letters, the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and the deputy director of the Microbial Ecology Committee of the Chinese Society of Ecology. He is the chairman of the 2016 China Environmental Genomics Youth Forum and the director of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Microbiology Committee of the Chinese Society of Ecology.