DSc. Ye Tian is working as a Post-Doc researcher in Food Sciences unit, Department of Life Technologies, Faculty of Technology, University of Turku. He has years’ experience on gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. His expertise includes: a) secondary metabolites in plants and the factors influencing composition of plant secondary metabolites; b) in vitro bioactivities of phenolic compounds against free radical-derived oxidation and foodborne pathogens; c) structure modification on phenolic compounds. The current work of DSc. Ye Tian focuses mainly on 1) valorization of agro-industrial side streams as novel foods, and 2) development of meat preservatives using structurally-designed phenolic compounds.