Zigui Chen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received a B.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2002 from Ocean University of China, both in Marine Biology. Between 2002 and 2009, he joined Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA, as a Research Associate and received training in molecular genomics and bioinformatics in viruses and other microorganisms. In 2009, he was promoted to Instructor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. In 2015, he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China, as an Assistant Professor. He is a member of the Papillomaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). He is also a Scientific Advisor of the Papillomavirus Episteme (PaVE), NIAID/NIH.