Xueduan Liu is a professor at Central South University. He is currently the director of the Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of the Ministry of Education. He served as deputy director of the Microbial Ecology Professional Committee of the Chinese Ecological Society, secretary-general of the International Society for Biohydrometallurgy, and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium. He received his bachelor’s degree from Hunan Agricultural University. He received his master’s degree from Beijing Agricultural University. He is a doctoral student jointly trained by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Hunan Agricultural University. He was an associate professor at Hunan Agricultural University. He won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award and the first prize of the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and many other awards.