Wu Guosheng was born in Guangji, Hubei province in September 1964. He is currently a professor and founding director of the Department of the History of Science at Tsinghua University, a member of the Discipline Appraisal Group for the History of Science and Technology of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Director of the History of Science and Technology Education Committee of the Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology, and also the Director of Professional Committee on Science Communication and Science Education, the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature. He graduated from the Department of Geophysics of Peking University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983; graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University with a master degree of philosophy in 1986; graduated with a doctoral degree in philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

His main research interests include the history of western scientific thoughts, phenomenological philosophy of science and technology, science communication and science museology. From 1997 to 1999, he was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; from 1999 to 2016, he was a professor at the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. His main academic works includeThoughts Rooted in History(2018),What is Science(2016),The Concept of Space in Greece(2010),Lectures on the Philosophy of Technology(2009),Ideas of Time(2006). In addition, there are four "Wu Guosheng Science and Humanities Series" (The Journey of Science,The Worries of Modernization,Lectures on the Reflections on Science,Science towards Communication) (2013). He has won the 6th Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth (1998), and Excellent Young Teachers Program of Ministry of Education of China (2002). His doctoral dissertation "Technology and Metaphysics" won the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation (2001); hisThe Journey of Sciencewon the "Five Ones" Project Awards of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (1996), and also won Beijing Science and Technology Award (2009); his bookIdeas of Timewon the first prize of the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (2008).