Dr. Sheng Shu is the Vice President of, as well as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Horticulture at Nanjing Agricultural University. He received his BS in Gardening Engineering from Anhui Agricultural University (2007) and his PhD in Vegetable Science from Nanjing Agricultural University (2012). From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His teaching disciplines include Facility Crop Cultivation, Soilless Cultivation, and Introduction to Horticulture. He is mainly engaged in teaching and scientific research in greenhouse vegetables and soilless cultivation. He mainly studies the response of greenhouse vegetables to adversity and its regulatory mechanism, the functional biological matrix suitable for horticultural crop seedling cultivation and cultivation, the living rapid matrix cultivation technology of leafy vegetables, and the matrix soilless cultivation technology of solanaceous and melon crops.