Wenli Bi is a physics professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 and was a postdoc and research scientist at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab. Wenli has many years of research experience in high pressure and synchrotron X-ray diffraction, scattering, and spectroscopy techniques. Her group focuses on studies of novel quantum magnetic materials under extreme conditions (https://sites.uab.edu/wbi/). She was elected member of the AIRAPT Executive Committee in 2023. E-mail: wbi@uab.edu