Qiuhong is a PhD candidate jointly trained by SGL, Wageningen University (WU) and the Chinese Academy of Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). Her PhD research is on using mechanistic models, machine learning to model the relationship between potato yield and soil nutrients in China. Qiuhong is supervised by Gerard Heuvelink (ISRIC and Soil Geography and Landscape group, WU), Johan Leenaars (ISRIC), Tom Schut (Plant Production Systems group, WU) and Ping He (Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, CAAS).