Fengsi Wei, space physics/space weather scientist, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born in Sichuan Province, China, on October Sixth, 1941, graduated from the Department of Geophysics in University of Science and Technology of China in 1963, invited to visit the Catholic University of America as a visiting scholar during 1980-1982, put forward a scientific proposal for Meridian Chain of Comprehensive Ground-based Space Environment Monitors in the Eastern Semi-hemisphere——Meridian Project in 1993.

He had been the principal investigator of the major programs of the “8th-five-year plan” (1995-1997) and the “9th-five-year plan” (1999-2004) from the National Natural Science Foundation. Now, as a research fellow in Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fengsi Wei is a PHD tutor and Vice-director of academic committee of the State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, director of space science branch/academic committee of Center for Space Science and Applied Research, director of science and technology committee for the state major science project——《Meridian Project》, and the leader of steering and evaluating group for solar-terrestrial space environment and space weather, Earth Science Department of National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Since his graduation in 1963, Prof. Fengsi Wei has engaged in space physics, including the propagation of the interplanetary disturbances in 70-90th of the 20th century, the predication method of space weather events, the interplanetary magnetic reconnection exploration and the magnetic cloud’s boundary layers from 90th of the 20th century up to now. He has published more than 150 scientific papers. Prof. Fengsi Wei won some prizes including the first-class award of natural science award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the second-class award of national natural science award in 2002. He has been devoted to developing Chinese Space Weather enterprise with his colleagues together.