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Wen-Jun Li received his PhD in Microbiology from Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. He is currently working as Distinguished Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. His publications include 10 monographs, 30 authorized patents, and more than 700 peer reviewed papers as the first or corresponding authors (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wen-Jun-Li). His research mainly focuses on microbial diversity under those unusual environments, by using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, and also on microbial ecology and evolution. He was awarded the WFCC Skerman award for microbial taxonomy in 2007, Bergey Award for 2025, and other 10 leading awards for his outstanding research contributions in the field of microbial systematics and microbial ecology. He is serving as Editorial board members or Associate Editors of more than 10 International journals, and he was appointed as membership of International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) since 2017, and President of Bergey’s International Society for Microbial Systematics (BISMiS, https://www.bismis.net/bismislive.html) since December of 2023.