Prof. Jianjun Qiao is a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University. He graduated from the School of Life Sciences of Inner Mongolia University in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. from Tianjin University of Science and Technology. In the same year, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University. He has been working there since then. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the director of the Microbiology Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has presided over and completed more than ten national foundation and provincial and ministerial projects. He has presided over two national key R&D projects and sub-projects of the National 863 Project for Synthetic Biology Research. He has published more than 100 high-level research papers in journals such as CHEM SOC REV, TRENDS MICROBIOL, and METAB ENG and has been authorized with more than 20 national invention patents. His research direction is the microbial synthetic biology of natural products and he mainly uses microbial synthetic biology technology to carry out research on health-related natural products.