Sehrish Manan is currently an Associate Professor at Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China. She worked as an associate professor (2021-2024)at Biofuel Institute, Jiangsu University and Postdoctoral Researcher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China from 2019 to 2021. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Huazhong Agricultural University, China in 2017. She has published 49 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and authored several book chapters. Her research interests include the metabolic engineering of oil and energy crops in addition to the development of mycelium- and cellulose-based functional materials for food packaging applications.