Prof. Dr. Xiaowu Li graduated from the Institute of Metals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctor's degree in 1998. He is now the dean and full professor of the Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northeastern University. He is currently a fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM Fellow), member of the Development Advisory Committee of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, member of the Fatigue Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, and editorial board member of international SCI journals such as JMST and Metals. His research interests include the strengthening and toughening, fatigue, and fracture of metallic materials, as well as the microstructure and properties of biomimetic materials. He published nearly 230 peer reviewed SCI scientific papers with more than 3600 citations. Formerly served as a JSPS research fellow at Osaka University in Japan and a Humboldt scholar at RWTH Aachen in Germany. Selected as an outstanding talent in the new century by the Ministry of Education, a hundred-person level talent project in Liaoning Province, and one of the top ten outstanding young innovative talents in Shenyang.