Guoquan Lu is currently the Director of the Potato Research Institute of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Ph.D. supervisor of two Ph.D. programs at Jiangsu Normal University and Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, and Executive Director of the Sweet Potato Professional Committee of the Chinese Crop Society, Vice President of the Sweet Potato Branch of the China Starch Industry Association, and Executive Director of the Potato Branch of the Chinese Cereals and Oils Society. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Chinese Journal of Cereals and Oils, and a reviewer for several SCI journals. He is mainly engaged in the quality evaluation, storage, and preservation of sweet potatoes and comprehensive development research of the whole industrial chain of sweet potato industrialization. He is now a scientist at the National Sweet Potato Storage and Preservation Industry Technology System. He has presided over or participated in more than 100 projects, including four performed with national funds. He has published more than 350 papers, including more than 30 SCI papers. He has been granted nearly 30 patents. He has edited or co-edited 18 books, including Storage and Comprehensive Utilisation of Agricultural Products, Food Refrigeration and Preservation Technology, and Research on Genotypes and Environmental Influence of Sweet Potato Quality Traits.