Siegfried Roth graduated from the Max Planck Institute in Germany in 1990 and conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and Princeton University in the United States. From 1998 to February 2025, he has been working at the Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Germany. In April 2025, he was introduced as high-level talents from Shanxi University. Siegfried Roth is an internationally renowned entomologist with a proven track record in the field of insect development and evolution.

His main research filed include the evolution and gene regulation of cell-to-cell communication in insects, the self-regulatory patterns and molecular mechanisms of insect somites and morphogenesis, and the influence of the evolution of insect morphogenesis on ecological development and evolution. Prof. Siegfried Roth has received 13 grants, including the German Science Foundation, and has published more than 100 papers in internationally renowned journals such as Nature, Cell, Science，Nature communications, Current Biology, eLife, BMC Genomics, Development Cell, etc., with a total of more than 8000 citations. With an H-index of 52 he enjoys an important academic reputation.