Zhenquan Wei received his doctorate from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Science in 2007. He is currently a professor at the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey. He has worked in the field of deep-sea geological research and resource exploration for more than ten years and has served as the Chief Scientist of oceanic cruises for scientific expeditions organized by the China Ocean Mineral Resource R&D Association (COMRA) and the China Geological Survey. He has been responsible for many deep-sea research projects, and his research mainly focuses on the metallogenic theory of polymetallic nodules/cobalt-rich crusts and the geological structure of seamounts.