Profile-Xiushu Qie Xiushu Qie is a distinguished Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and is the director of a major laboratory (CAS Key Lab). For Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation) at the same institute. She received her master's and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric physics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1987 and 1998, respectively. She has authored or co-authored about 300 peer-reviewed papers and is a named inventor of ten issued Chinese patents. Her research interests include atmospheric electricity, lightning and thunderstorm physics, lightning meteorology, and transient luminous events (TLEs). Prof. Qie is the current president of the international committee on atmospheric electricity. She is an Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere (AGU), Associate Editor for Atmospheric Research (Elsevier), and an Editor for Advances in Atmospheric Sciences and the Journal of Meteorological Research.