Prof. Dr. Mei Han holds a master’s degree in Botany from Northeast Forestry University and a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Physiology and Ecology from the Institute of Botany, Heidelberg University. She was a research assistant at the Center for Biosciences (COS) at Heidelberg University, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, and an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Biology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University. Currently, she is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University. She has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in biochemistry and molecular biology for a long time. She was a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB), and the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB). She was a contributing editor to Plants magazine. She is a reviewer for journals such as Nature Communications, Frontiers in Plant Science, and BMC Plant Biology. She is the task leader of major agricultural biobreeding projects and national key R&D programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the technical leader of forestry science and technology research projects of the Fujian Forestry Bureau, and is also in charge of general projects of the National Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Breeding.