Prof. Wenjiao Xiao is a professor at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a Member of the CAS and of the Academia Europaea, and he is a GSA Fellow and a Member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences (Berlin). Wenjiao is a Science Editor at the Geological Society of America Bulletin and an associate editor for other journals and was a Co-chief of IGCP 592 and IGCP 662. He has been working on sedimentology and tectonic evolution, continental growth, and metallogeny in the Altaids, Tethysides, and other orogens. Wenjiao has published more than 500 papers in international journals including Science, Sci Adv, PNAS, Nat Commun, CEE, Rev Geophys, Annu Rev Earth & Planet Sci, and Geology, with 36,129 Web of Science citations (H-index 87) and 46,979 GoogleScholar Citations (H-index100). Wenjiao won The National Innovation Medal, The Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Innovation Award, The Second Award of the National Natural Science Award of China, The Special Prize and The First Award of Xinjiang Science and Technology Award, and The Huang Jiqing Award of the Geological Society of China.