Dou Xiankang, born in January 1966 in Si County, Anhui Province, and joined the Communist Party of China in October 1985. He has a postgraduate degree and a doctorate degree, and is currently the president of Wuhan University. From 1983 to 1988, he studied in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China, and received a bachelor's degree in 1987 and a master's degree in 1988. From 1989 to 1993, he studied at the University of Paris Diderot, France, and obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree. From 1993 to 1995, he was engaged in postdoctoral research at the France State Science Research Center. He started teaching at the University Of Science And Technology Of China in 1995 and was promoted to professor in 2000. From 2005 to 2016, he served as the vice president of the Party Committee of the University of Science and Technology of China. In December 2016, he served as the president of Wuhan University. For a long time, Academician Dou Xiankang has been engaged in comprehensive research on the theory, observation and experiment of the middle and upper atmosphere. Over the years, he persisted in addressing the frontier issues of the subject and independently developed a series of laser radar observation systems and vehicle-mounted wind laser radar systems, filling the gaps in this field in China, and the technical level reached the international leading level; the quantum laser radar was first successfully developed in the world based on the above transformation technology and created a new system for laser radar detection. He obtained 27 national invention patents. From 2012 to 2017, he led a team to publish 48 papers in the field of "Mid-Upper Atmosphere" in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the top international journal in this field, second only to the National Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAR) of the United States. It ranked second among similar international research institutions and universities. In 2004, he enjoyed the special government allowance of the State Council. In 2010, he was funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. As the team leader, he was funded by the innovative research group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2011. In 2015, he was supported by the innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2016, he was selected as Leader in Technological Innovation of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program". In November 2017, he was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Related achievements won the 2014 First Prize of Military Science and Technology Progress and 2017 First Prize of Anhui Province Natural Science (both ranked first).