Dr. Shuhua Xu is a professor of human population genetics and a Distinguished Professor of Fudan University. He is the Director of Center of Evolutionary Biology, and President of the Council, Shanghai Society of Genetics. The Population Omics Group led by Dr. Xu is using computational approaches and developing new methods to dissect the genetic architecture of human populations, quantitatively characterize their admixture features, and reveal their migration history and adaptive divergence. Dr. Xu has authored many scientific papers published in Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS. Dr. Xu serves as an Editorial Board member of several international peer-reviewed journals such as Molecular Genetics and Genomics (co-Editor-in-Chief), BMC Genetics (Section Editor), BMC Genomic Data (Senior Editor).