Jinhua Hu received her bachelor's degree in engineering from School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, China in 2004. Then, she received her Master's of Science from the Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, China in 2007. She received her doctoral degree in Engineering from the College of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. Since then, she has been working as an assistant professor and a master's supervisor at the School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China. Her areas of research include the preparation, processing, application, and industrialization of milk protein ingredients and natural polysaccharides, as well as the industrialization of health science and technology.