Dr Yujia Qin received her BS degree in Plant Protection from China Agricultural University (CAU) in 2012, and her PhD degree in Phytosanitary and Agroecological Health from CAU in 2017. She attended a PhD joint training program in Life Sciences at Queensland University of Technology, supported by China Scholarship Council (2015–2016). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CAU from 2017 to 2019. Appointed in 2019, she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, CAU. Her research interests include pest risk analyses, ecological suitability, and environmental association analyses of invasive insects.