Prof. Dr. Jia-Yong Zhang is a Professor of the College of Chemistry and Life Science at Zhejiang Normal University. He began his scientific career with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at Anhui University in 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Nanjing Normal University in 2008 and he has been teaching at Zhejiang Normal University since July 2008. In the same year, he was selected as an outstanding young and middle-aged backbone teacher at Zhejiang Normal University. He served as the Academic Editor of the PeerJ from January 2019 to December 2021. Currently, he is the Academic Editor of BMC Ecology and Evolution (2022–present) and the reviewer for Frontiers in Psychology (2017–present). His interests include mitochondrial genome, gene arrangement, phylogenetic evolution, and population genetics.