Prof. Dr. Zhigang Song has been a professor at the College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China since 2014. He earned his BS (1995–1999), MS (1999–2002), and PhD (2002–2005) in animal nutrition from the Shandong Agricultural University and was a postdoctoral fellow (2008–2009) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He worked as a lecturer at the College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University in 2005 and as an associate professor from 2006 to 2014. His interests include brain–gut dialogue in animal appetite regulation, pet nutrition and food, nutrition regulation of animal intestinal health, and nutrition regulation of animal stress response.