Xiaolei Wu has been a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, since 2003. He received his BS degree in materials science from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, in 1986, and his PhD degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 1995. His current research is focused on developing and understanding the heterostructure and deformation physics of advanced metallic materials for structural applications.