Prof. Dr. Yin Qi is now the Deputy Director of the Biodiversity Conservation Center and a Research Scientist at the Chengdu Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department from 2019 to 2022 and an Associate Researcher from 2013 to 2022 at the Chengdu Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed his PhD studies at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his BS at the Northeast Forestry University. He has presided over or participated in 24 scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, major scientific and technological projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and international cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in many mainstream journals. His research topics mainly include: animal behavior and evolutionary biology.