Xuhui Shen is a professor of Space Geophysics and Remote Sensing at the National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, and the chief scientist and designer of the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite, the head of the expert group for the China Earthquake Satellite Program, a member of the National Remote Sensing Technology Standardization Committee, and the director of the Earth Observation from Space Professional Committee of the Chinese Seismological Society. He is engaged in the geoscience application of remote sensing, active tectonic research, the coupling mechanism of the seismic ionosphere precursors, and global geophysical field modeling.