Jiang-ChunWEI was born in China in 1931. Ph.D., Dr. Sci., academician of the ChineseAcademy of Sciences (CAS), is a Research Professor, Principal Investigator atthe State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology (CAS), andProfessor Honorary Speaker of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS). His main research subjects are the biosystematics of lichens,particularly the homologous biosystematics of the family Umbilicariceaeworldwide. He also led his team to sequence and analyze the first genome oflichenized fungi in the world and discover a large number of drought-resistantgenes in it, and open up new prospects for lichen drought-resistance geneutilization and the implementation of desert biological carpet engineering.