Song Tian (田松) has been a Professor in the Humanities Center, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, since 2019 and is Director of the Center for Science and Civilization.

He has two doctorates, is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of California (Berkeley), Harvard and Cornell. He was Professor of the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Beijing Normal University for 15 years. He is one of the first to focus on garbage issues in China. He has published several books and is currently studying Civilization Studies, including the Construction of an Ecological Civilization.