Sheng Li, PhD, second-level professor, director of the Institute of Insect Science and Technology, South China Normal University. He is a Yangtze River Scholar, an outstanding "National Outstanding Young Scientist", an outstanding "Hundred Talents Program", a national outstanding scientific and technological worker, and a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions. He graduated from the Department of Biology of Hunan Normal University in 1994, and received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. He returned to China to work after completing his postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He has been engaged in insect science research for more than 20 years and has achieved a series of internationally leading research results in the field of insect development and genetics, especially in the direction of "hormonal and nutritional regulation of insect metamorphosis". He has published 82 SCI papers, including 51 papers as the corresponding author and first author in Annual Review of Entomology, Autophagy, Cell Research, Development and PLoS Genetics, and many papers have been selected as cover papers or as special reviews; 6 patents have been authorized. He has organized and undertaken a number of national-level research tasks such as key, key international cooperation and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 973 projects, 863 projects, and transgenic projects. He has been invited to give keynote speeches and conference reports at major international conferences for many times, and has served as the chairman and group member of international conferences for many times, enjoying important academic reputation at home and abroad. He has been appointed as an editorial board member of Journal of Insect Physiology, Insect Science, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Journal of Insect Science and Acta Entomologica Sinica; he has served as a director of the Entomological Society of China, and the director of the Insect Development and Genetics Professional Committee of the Entomological Society of China, and other academic positions.