Prof. Xiaofeng Li earned his BEng from Wuhan University in 2013, and PhD degree from Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Monash University in 2019. He was selected for the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas) and the Hubei Province Innovation Talent Program. His research interests lie in the fields of rock dynamics and computational mechanic sciences with emphasis on the development of the hybrid continuum and discontinuum methods for failure modelling of geomaterials spanning the scale from micro-grain-based heterogeneity (mineral, texture, anisotropy, grain morphology) to macro-in-situ applications (rock faulting, geothermal-induced earthquakes). He is the recipient of the 2021 ROCHA runner-up of the ISRM. He is awarded as future leader of Class 2022 in ARMA. He is the main developer of the opensource continuum-discontinuum code (OpenFDEM, www.openfdem.com), which aims to be a free finite and discrete element kernel with object-oriented architecture for solving multiscale, multiphase and multiphysics (3M) problems that operates on various platforms.