Dr. Fumin Lei is a Research Professor from the Institute of Zoology (IOZ),ChineseAcademyof Sciences (CAS),China. Dr. Lei received his PhD in ornithology at IOZ, CAS, in 1994. His research interests include taxonomy, biodiversity and distribution, molecular phylogeny and evolution, phylogeography, adaptive evolution by comparative genomics, and molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases (e.g., avian influenza). He has published over 275 research papers or monographs inScience, Nature Communications, PNAS, MBE, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Molecular Ecology. Dr. Lei is the Editor forAsia, Journal of Ornithology, and Associate Editor of Avian Research, Zoological Systematics, Journal of Biogeography, and Current Zoology. He is also the Vice-President of the International Ornithologists’ Union (IOU), and President of the China Ornithological Society.