Wentao Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University. He holds two PhD degrees in preventive veterinary medicine and philosophy from China and the Netherlands. He has received several prestigious grants, including Chinese government talent-recruitment programs and young talent in Wuhan city, and he is presently a principal investigator at the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and the Hubei Hongshan Laboratory. He was named a highly cited scientist in the world in 2022 and 2023. In 2008, he graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Sichuan Agricultural University, obtaining a bachelor's degree. From 2008 to 2014, they pursued a doctorate degree in preventive veterinary medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University. During this period, he participated in a joint doctoral program at Utrecht University in the Netherlands from 2013 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018, they obtained a philosophy doctorate in veterinary virology from the same university. From 2015 to 2021, he work as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. He has published 16 papers on high ranked journals such as PNAS, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., Emerging Infect. Dis., and J. Virol. et al. They participated in more than 60 SCI papers, which were published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Science Immunology, and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. The total citation count is over 7,000, and H-index is 33. Nine of their articles were recorded as ESI's highly cited papers. One article ranked first in Nat. Commun. as the most influential and innovative research paper and ranked third among the top 50 most influential papers in 2020.