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Meng joined AFT’ Water Initiative in May 2023. She is interested in understanding the impact of soil health practices on the agroecosystem, aiming for productivity, resilience, and sustainability. She has a background in plant and soil sciences and brings expertise in agroecology, soil ecology, and statistical modeling to the team. Meng earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on the interactions between agricultural weeds and soil microbes in corn-soybean systems. Prior to joining AFT, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California-Davis, where she explored soil health in diverse agroecosystems; and then at Pennsylvania State University, where she focused on corn genetics and genomics and plant-soil-microbe interactions. She is based in State College, PA, with her husband and their two-year-old daughter.