Chunmiao Zheng is currently a professor for the University of Alabama’s Department of Geological Sciences. He has also served as an assistant and associate professor at the university where he has worked since 1993. Prior to that, he worked as a senior hydrogeologist at S.S. Papadopulos & Associates. He holds a B.S. in geology from the Chengdu Institute of Geology in China and a Ph.D. in hydrogeology with a minor in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin. His postgraduate experience was in geology and applied mathematics at the Chengdu Institute of Geology (now Chengdu University of Technology) in China.