Professor Dr. Xiaoting Rui is presiding professor of mechanics at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Science and Technology Committee, vice‐president of the Expert Committee of the General Armament Department of China and vice‐president of the Applied Mechanics Society of the China Ordnance Society. He gained an outstanding person award from the Science Technology and Committee for the National Defense of China and gained a special award from the State Council of China. He is engaged in research and teaching in the field of launch dynamics and multibody system dynamics. He has completed over 20 large national and key scientific research projects, and has obtained four national technological invention and national technological progress awards. He has published six books supported by the National Excellent Science and Technology Fund and 304 papers, including 218 papers indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP. He has won more than 30 book and paper prizes, including the China book prize, the China publishing prize and the Three One Hundred project prize. He has 64 national invention patents, and more than 40 students home and abroad from his group have gained postdoctoral and doctoral degrees. He has been guest editor of a special issue of Advances in Mechanical Engineering and guest co‐editor of a special issue of Multibody System Dynamics. He is a member of the editorial committee of Scientific Word Journal, Journal of ISRN Aerospace Engineering and Chinese Journal of Engineering. He also is a member of the editorial committee of Journal of Acta Armamentarii, Chinese Journal of Explosives & Propellants and Journal of Ordnance Industry Automation. He was invited to lecture by famous scientists including Professor Werner Schiehlen (President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), Professor Jens Wittenburg (developer of the Wittenburg method), Professor Erwin Stein (President of the German Mechanics Society), Professor Peter Eberhard (Head of the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics at Stuttgart University), Professor Bodo Heimann (Head of the Robot Institute at Hannover University), Professor Dieter Bestle (Head of the Institute of Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics at Cottbus Technology University), Professor Klaus Thoma (Head of the Ernst–Mach Institute), Professor Edwin Kreuzer (President of Hamburg‐Harburg Technology University). He has also been supported several times by key German Research Council projects, been guest professor at Stuttgart University, Karlsruhe University, Hannover University, the Ernst‐Mach Institute, Cottbus Technology University and Hamburg‐Harburg Technology University, and has given more than 50 invited lectures at 16 universities and institutes in Europe and America. As a member of the Scientific Committees of several international conferences he has helped to organize and presided over conferences and given several invited keynote reports. His research results have won praise from members of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering of China, America, Russia, Poland, India and Austria.