Dr. Yu Xia was born in 1975. He got a bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Food Science and Technology from Jiangnan University in 2007. He is now an associate professor in Jiangnan University, China. His research interest includes food biotechnology, biotransformation, enzymes development, and application of microbial technologies on food safety assay and control. He published more than 40 research papers in international journals and obtained more than 15 patent grants. He is also active in public scientific research services and reviewed manuscripts for more than 10 journals, including Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Food Science & Nutrition, Journal of Dairy Science, Analytica Chimica Acta, Frontiers series, and MDPI journals, etc. He is now also a deputy director of Yangzhou Food Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province, China.