Jianya Su has been a Professor at the Department of Pesticide Science, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) since 2012. He completed his undergraduate studies at Hunan Agricultural College in 1984, received his Master’s from the Department of Plant Protection and his Ph.D. from the Department of Pesticide Science, both at NAU, in 1987 and 2004, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School from 2007 to 2008. His main research areas include insecticide toxicology and insecticide resistance; insecticide target discover; pharmacology of insect ion channels; molecular biology of insects and its application in pest control.