Tao AN is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently Deputy Director of the Radio Astronomy Science and Technology Department at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), and undertakes research projects under the National Key Research and Development Programme. He serves as a member of the Radio Astronomy Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Chinese representative in the SKA Regional Centre Steering Committee, and a member of the Time Allocation Committee of the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network. He has published more than 150 papers with H-index 29 in top academic journals, including Nature (including Nature Astronomy and Nature Communications) and Science, and has served as a reviewer for top astronomical journals.

Prof. ChunJiang BIAN, Doctoral supervisor, director of Aerospace Intelligent Information and System Technology Research Office, National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research interests include intelligent object detection and recognition, spaceborne high-performance computer, distributed space system and spacecraft design.

Hongbin CHEN, researcher, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests: atmospheric physics and atmospheric remote sensing

Prof. Hongfei CHEN, received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. His research interests include space particle detection, space radiation and effect monitoring, space radiation environment research. He is responsible for the development of particle monitors for the CBERS04 and CBERS04A satellites of China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite (CBERS). He is also responsible for the development of high-energy particle radiation effect monitoring instruments, which carried on two experimental satellites.

Dr. Yao CHEN is a professor at Shandong University (SDU). He serves as the executive director of Institute of Space Sciences of SDU since July 2013. He received the Jeoujang Jaw Outstanding Young Science Award in Space Physics in 2017, the Youth Innovation Award in Space Weather Science and Technology in 2016, and the Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth systems Science from the AGU-SPA section in 2008, etc. His primary research interest is the physics of solar eruption and mechanisms of particle acceleration and coherent radio emission in space plasmas. His publications can be accessed via the link to his ORCID (0000-0001-6449-8838).

Lei DAI, professor of National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the head of the magnetosphere physics research group of the State Key laboratory of Space weather. His research interests are in space weather and magnetosphere physics, including magnetic reconnection model and substorm models. He is PI for Light Ion Analyzer (LIA) instrument and responsible for the science and application system of the SMILE mission.

Xiaolong DONG, professor, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is mainly engaged in the research on microwave remote sensing detection and imaging mechanisms, advanced microwave remote sensing systems, and microwave remote sensing applications in earth science and space exploration. He is a member of the council of the Chinese Society of Space Research (CSSR), and is vice chairman of the Space Earth Science Professional Committee of CSSR. Professor DONG is a member of the Calibration and Authenticity Verification Working Group of the International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS WGCV), the chairman of the Microwave Group, a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Institute of Space Science (ISSI). He is an editorial board member of several academic journals such as Chinese Journal of Space Science and Remote Sensing Technology and Applications.

Professor Yunfeng DONG, studied at School of Aeronautics of Beihang University since 1983. He commenced employment at School of Astronautics of Beihang University in 1990, and engaged in research pertaining to the system design and dynamic control technology of aerospace vehicles. From 1994 to 1997, he temporarily seconded to Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Satellite Co. Limited, assuming responsibility for satellite orbit and attitude control. In recent years, professor DONG focused on the research and development of digital twin satellites and their applications. He has successfully developed an artificial intelligence program, capable of autonomously generating source code for digital twin satellites with multiple dynamic, spatial, and physical field couplings.

Li DUAN, professor of Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Member of Female Scientists Working Committee of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, member of Committee of Microgravity Science and Applied Research，Chinese Society of Space Research. Her main research interest is microgravity fluid physics, involving fluid mechanics, optical diagnostic technology and space experiment technology etc., which has the characteristics of interdisciplinary crossover. She has been responsible for carrying out a number of projects of National Natural Science Foundation, projects of Strategic Priority Research Programs on Space Science of CAS, and subjects of National Key Technologies Research and Development Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China etc., and has undertaken and completed a number of space experiments missions successively. More than 100 SCI papers have been published, a number of invention patents have been approved, and a number of master and doctoral students have been trained.

Professor Yizhong FAN has been a research professor of PMO since 2010, and has been leading the science team of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) since 2012 and the group of dark matter indirect detection since 2015, and has served as the deputy director of PMO since 2022. His research fields include dark matter indirect detection, high energy astrophysics, and gravitational wave astronomy. Right now, Dr. FAN is proposing the Very Large Area Gamma-ray Telescope (VLAST), the next generation of the MeV to TeV gamma-ray observatory characterized by an acceptance of about 10 m2 sr and a high energy resolution. He has published more than 170 refereed papers (most are either the first or the corresponding author) in major astrophysical/physical journals, with more than 9,000 total citations (up to Nov. 2023). He is a 2023 winner of Xplorer Prize in astronomy.