Xiugen Fu is a professor at the School of Earth Sciences and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Chengdu University of Technology. He received his doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and later a visiting scholar at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He was an assistant researcher at the Chengdu Geological Survey Center of the China Geological Survey and was later promoted to associate researcher and researcher. He was also the director and deputy director here. He is the deputy director of the Youth Work Committee of the Geological Society of China, and he is also the secretary-general of the Stratigraphic Paleontology Committee of the Sichuan Geological Society. He has won the Golden Hammer Award, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Youth Science and Technology Award, the Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Award, etc.