Introduction 

      Li-Hai Tan is currently a cognitive neuroscience professor at Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute for CNS Regeneration, Jinan University. Dr. Tan obtained Bachelor degree from Shandong Normal University (1984), Master degree from Beijing Normal University (1988) and PhD from University of Hong Kong (1995). He was a postdoctoral fellow of University of Pittsburgh, a full professor on the tenure term at University of Hong Kong, a research fellow of NIH, and an adjunct associate professor of Georgetown University Medical School. He joined Jinan University and started to establish the language neuroscience team in 2020. His group mainly focuses on language and the brain, using neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI and qMRI) and genetic techniques to investigate neuroanatomical and neurogenetic mechanisms underlying language processing and language disorders. Dr. Tan has published more than 100 SCI research articles, including those carried by Nature (1 article), Science Advances (1 article) and PNAS (10 articles) as a lead or corresponding author. He as chief scientist or PI has received a number of grants including one ‘973’ program grant, one Guangdong Key Research and Development grant, and one Guangdong Innovation Team grant.