Dr. Wei Xiu currently serves as an Associate Researcher at the Academy of Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering of Kunming University of Science and Technology in 2011. In 2016, he received a PhD degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and worked as a lecturer in the Water Environment Isotope Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences at the same University in the same year. He became an exceptional Master’s supervisor in 2019, was promoted to Associate Researcher in 2020, and was appointed as a Doctoral supervisor in 2021. He is one of the eighth batch of “truth-seeking scholars” of the China University of Geosciences (Beijing). From November 2018 to December 2020, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Williamson Research Center (Molecular Environmental Science), University of Manchester, UK. He has published more than 40 scientific research papers in many international academic journals and he is also a reviewer for many internationally renowned academic journals such as Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Hazardous Material, etc. His main research areas include Environmental Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, and Geomicrobiology.