Lu An is a professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University and Deputy Director of the Ethics Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences of Wuhan University. She serves as ASIS&T SIG Cabinet Deputy Director, Chair of ASIS&T SIG-KM (2021-2022) and a director of International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). She is the principle investigator of more than ten projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education of China and so forth. She has published more than 100 papers on JASIST, IJIM, IPM, T&I, SSCR, JOI, ESWA and Chinese core information science journals as well as two monographs.