Jun Jie Zhang graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University in 2008. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from China Agricultural University in 2013. During his doctoral studies, he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2013. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the College of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry. His research interests focus on microbial resource mining, molecular ecology, and their applications.