Professor Tian Xue was born in May 1977 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. From 2005-2012, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant researcher at the University of California, Davis and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, U.S.A. He has been a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) since 2012. He has been the executive dean of the College of Life Sciences (CLCS) from 2014 to 2020, and the Executive Dean of the Department of Life Science and Medicine (DLM) from 2018-2022. Member of the Party Committee of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) from 2019, Director of the Department of Teachers' Work of the Party Committee and the Department of Human Resources from 2020-2022, and Assistant to the President of USTC from January 2022.