Zhou is director of the Xi'an AMS Center, China. She has also been director of the Institute of Earth Environment and the State Key Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She obtained her PhD in geology and was awarded The First National Prize for the One Hundred Most Outstanding PhD Theses by the Ministry of Education, China. She has pioneered the development of chronostratigraphic and geochemical tracer techniques using loess 10Be and 14C for Quaternary studies and revolutionized the understandings of north-south hemisphere interactions and geomagnetic excursion or reversal processes. She has been awarded two National Prizes (numbers 2 and 3) in Natural Science and five number 1 State Prizes in Advanced Science and Technology. Her international experience includes associate editor, Radiocarbon Journal(now editorial member), and panel member, PAGES/CLIVAR working group (2004-08).

Wang is a biochemist and molecular biologist. She is research professor at the Inst. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She obtained her MSc (enzymology, 1981) at the former Shanghai Inst. of Biochemistry. She has studied the interaction between enzyme and nucleic acid and has made an essential contribution to the study on interaction between aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases（aaRSs） and tRNAs. Using biochemical and molecular biological methods, she has explored amino acid and nucleotide residues in aminoacylation and editing functions of aaRSs from prokaryote to human. Her research has advanced understanding about the accuracy of protein biosynthesis based on interaction between aaRSs and tRNAs, the co-revolution of aaRSs/tRNA, and the mechanism of disease-associated mutations of tRNAs in mitochondria.

Tian is prof. at East China U. of Science and Tech., Shanghai. In 1999, he was appointed Cheung Kong Dist. Prof. by the Education Ministry of China. His current research interests include the syntheses of novel functional organic dyes for solar cells and chemosensors as well as development of interdisciplinary materials science that determines the electronic and optical properties of materials. Tian has already published over 500 papers in international journals and applied 90 Chinese patents. ISI Web of Science shows that his publications have been cited over 50,000 times (data by Nov. 28, 2022) and his h-index = 118 (data by Nov. 28, 2022). Now Tian is associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and Science China Chemistry as well as Intl. Advisory Board Member for Chemical Science, Advanced Optical Materials and Chem. Asia J. etc. He was selected as a member of the Chinese Acad. of Science (2011) and a Fellow of TWAS (2013). Prof. Tian serves as Vice-President of Chinese Chemical Society since 2019.

Jin is Chair Professor and Director of Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE),Fudan University, Shanghai,China. He graduated from Peking University in 1970, and received the M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1982, 1983 and 1985, respectively. All degrees were from Electrical Engineering. He was the Principle Scientist of China State Major Basic Research Projects. Dr. Jin is Academisian of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IAA Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow, EMA Fellow, and Member of IEEE GRSS Major Awards Committee. He was the Chair of IEEE Fellow Evaluation (GRSS), member of IEEE GRSS AdCom, and IEEE GRSS Distinguished Speaker. He received IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award (2015), IEEE GRSS Education Award (2010), China Science Prizes (2011,1993), the 1-st grade Science Prizes of MOE (1992, 1996, 2009), the 1st grade Guang-Hua Prize (1993) among many others.

GUO Huadong is a Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, an Academician of CAS, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, and a Fellow of TWAS. He presently serves as President of the International Society for Digital Earth, Director of the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO, Chairman of the International Committee on Remote Sensing of Environment, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Earth and Big Earth Data. He served as President of ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology. He has over 30 years of experience in Earth observation, specializing in radar remote sensing and Digital Earth science. He has been Principle Investigator for over 30 major national projects in China, and Principle Investigator for 7 international radar remote sensing projects. Prof. Guo has published more than 600 papers and sixteen books, and is the principal awardee of sixteen domestic and international prizes.

Zhuang is a research professor at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and professor at the University of CAS. She graduated (PhD 1988) from and served as a postdoctoral fellow (1990) in the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University, USA, and jointed the Department of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing in 1981. She was elected as a member of CAS in 2009. Her research is focused on the morphological and molecular approaches to systematics and phylogeny of certain groups of Ascomycota, species diversity of fungi from different areas of China, DAN barcoding of selected groups, and natural resources of fungicolous ascomycetes.

Wang is Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and chair professor of physics and President Emeritus of Peking University, China. He was the Provost and Executive Vice President of Peking University, the director of the Institute of Physics, CAS and the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics; and executive president of the Graduate University, CAS. He obtained his PhD in 1990 at Peking University. He has served in various international physics committees, professional advisory committees and editorial boards. His awards include: Humboldt Research Award; TWAS Prize in Physics; IBM Faculty Awards; Achievement in Asia Award; Tan Kah Kee Science Award; Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize, CAS; and Distinguished Young Research Awards, Hong Kong. His membership includes: CAS, American Physics Society, and UK Institute of Physics.