Dr. Gao Ruiping, Doctor of Engineering, was born in Shijiangzhuang, Hebei Province in 1963. She worked at the Test Center of Northeastern Institute of Technology from August 1984 to August 1985, and at Ministry of Metallurgical Industry from April 1988 to December 1994 as Assistant Engineer, Engineer and Senior Engineer of Iron and Steel Research Institute. Dr. Gao joined NSFC in December 1994, and has since taken many positions, namely, Deputy Program Director and Program Director of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Director of Material Science Division II, and Deputy Director-General of Department of Engineering and Material Sciences; Deputy Director-General and Director-General of General Office, Deputy Secretary-General. She was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology from September 1999 to September 2000. In January 2013, she was appointed as Vice President and Member of Party Group of NSFC. Dr. Gao has been engaged in material science research as well as science funding management. She conducted researches on relationship between residual stress and small angle X-ray diffraction of metallic materials, Yi-Ba-Cu-O high temperature superconducting materials, BN and Si3N4 high performance ceramic materials, carbon materials and nano-materials. She participated and led four national scientific key projects, co-published two monographs, obtained two invention patents, and published more than 50 papers in Physics Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, the Journal of Physical Chemistry B and Advanced Materials. She was also responsible for the research on development strategy of material science, and the planning, management and financing of science fund. The awards and honors she has received include Excellent Paper Award of the 2nd National Youth Conference on Refractory Materials, Government Special Allowance of the State Council, Outstanding Female Official of Central Government (2007), and the title of "May 1st National Women's Model" (2011).