Junlong is a spatial ecologist currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the theme 4 of the DIVERSE project in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto since May 2024. Previously, he was a Lecturer at Chongqing University (2021–2024). He holds a PhD in Geography and Land Resources from Wuhan University (2016–2021), and a Bachelor of Engineering in Land Resources Management from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. His research focuses on spatio-temporal ecological dynamics, and he is interested in studying how connectivity influences ecological structures from multiple levels.