Niu Weixing studied astronomy at Nanjing University from 1986 to 1990, received his bachelor’s degree, and continued his studies on the history of astronomy at postgraduate level at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academic of Sciences, from 1990 to 1996, and received his doctorate degree. He worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1999 to 2019, serving as a lecturer (1999), associate professor (2001), and professor (2006). He moved to the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019 and is currently a professor and executive director in the Department of the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology of USTC. He was a visiting scholar at Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK, from Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2002, and at the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University, from Jun. 2013 to Jun. 2014. He is the chief expert of the Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation titled ‘On the Diffusion of Astronomy along the Silk Road during the Han and Tang Dynasties’. He is the author of Gazing Toward the Brahma Heaven: On the Origin and Diffusion of Astronomy in the Chinese Translated Sutras《西望梵天――漢譯佛經中的天文學源流》(2004), Extraterritorial Astronomy of the Tang Dynasty《唐代域外天文學》(2019), and Compilation and Research on Astronomical and Calendrical Materials in the Buddhist Sutras and Taoist Scriptures《佛道二藏天文曆法資料整理與研究》(2022). His main research interests include history of astronomy and the diffusion of astronomy between ancient civilizations.