Jiang-Chun WEI was born in China in 1931. Ph.D., Dr. Sci., academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is a Research Professor, Principal Investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology (CAS), and Professor Honorary Speaker of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). His main research subjects are the biosystematics of lichens, particularly the homologous biosystematics of the family Umbilicariceae worldwide. He also led his team to sequence and analyze the first genome of lichenized fungi in the world and discover a large number of drought-resistant genes in it, and open up new prospects for lichen drought-resistance gene utilization and the implementation of desert biological carpet engineering.