Gexia Qiao is Director of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She is also Director of the Biological Specimen Museum Working Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Entomological Society. From 1987 to 1993, she served as a teacher at Shaanxi Normal University. She received a master’s degree from Shaanxi Normal University in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1996. She was awarded First Prize in the 5th “Top Ten Outstanding Women” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and First Prize for “Outstanding Postgraduate Instructor” at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. Her research interests are aphid taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolution, mitogenomics, species diversity and biogeography, aphid–host plant associations, aphid–endosymbiont interactions, aphid–ant mutualism, and phenotypic plasticity.