Dr. Yanqun Xu is currently working at the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science and is an associate researcher at the Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Postharvest Handling of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. She started her undergraduate studies in Food Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2010 and then continued her doctoral studies in Food Science at Zhejiang University in September 2014 without taking an entrance exam. Her research interests include food preservation biology. From September 2015 to September 2017, she received a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to study the molecular biology of UV-C regulation of strawberry fruit quality at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Canada for two years. From October 2017 to May 2019, she was jointly trained at the School of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University. She served as the president of the Student Union of the Canadian Horticultural Association, won the Best Oral Award at international conferences twice, was named an outstanding graduate student of Zhejiang University many times, and won many awards such as the Outstanding Post Scholarship, Academic Scholarship, and National Outstanding Volunteer.