Hyun-Jae Shin is a professor of Biochemical Engineering at Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea. He studied chemical engineering at Inha University and obtained a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (1996). He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Westminster (as a Chevening Scholarship recipient of the British Council). After working three years at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (1998–2000), he established his own start-up biotech company, EnzBank, Inc., which has run for six years. He started his lab at Chosun University (2006) and is responsible for many national and industrial research projects. Hyun-Jae Shin has published over 100 papers (Google Scholar citation 1819 and h-index 24 as of January 2018), 20 patents either registered or filed, and 6 books. Hyun-Jae Shin served as Editor-in-Chief at the Korea Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Journal and Journal of Mushrooms. His research interests include enzyme technology, nanotechnology, environmental engineering, and utilization of natural resources.