Dr. Sheng Li is a professor in School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University. He has established and is currently leading the Institute of Insect Science and Technology in South China Normal University, and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology. After obtaining the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000), he had postdoctoral trainings in Europe and the US and then worked as a professor in Shanghai (2006) and Guangzhou (2016). Due to his scientific achievements, he has received numerous national and provincial honors and awards.

Professor Sheng Li is an entomologist with remarkable leadership in modern insect sciences in China. Focusing on “hormonal regulation and evolutionary rules of insect metamorphosis”, he made significant achievements in the field of insect development and genetics with impacted international reputation. He had 171 SCI papers published (H-index 50) and 20 patents issued. As a corresponding author or a first author, he published 90 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Ecology and Evolution (2022, 2025), Science Advances (2024), PNAS (2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025), Nature Communications (2018, 2023, 2025a, 2025b), Cell Reports (2024), Science Bulletin (2022), Cell Research (2010, 2011), Autophagy (2013, 2015), Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019, 2022), National Science Review (2025), the Innovation (2023) and Annual Review of Entomology (2014, 2019).