Daniel Falush, PhD in Biology, is a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in 1992 and his PhD from University College London in 1998. He has held senior research positions at Kyushu University in Japan, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, the University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Bath in the UK. He has published over 80 papers in top journals such as Nature, Science, ISME, Elife, and Nature Communications, with over 30,000 citations and an h-index of 60. He has led numerous research projects, including key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China National Senior Foreign Experts Program, Wellcome Trust Project Grants, and the Science Foundation of Ireland. In 2021, he was selected as one of the top 10 Chinese scholars in biology in Elsevier's "Top Global Scientists Ranking." He developed software such as Linkage model of STRUCTURE, STRUCTURE 2.2, fineSTRUCTURE, ClonalFrame, GlobeTrotter, Badmixture, ClonalOrigin, and FineRADstructure, which have been recognized in the industry and widely cited.