Prof. Yunjun Yan obtained his B.E. degree in Biology from Central China Normal University and completed his M.Sc. degree in Zoology from Central China Normal University. Prof. Yan received a Ph.D. degree in Aquatic Biology from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Yan is the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Ministry of Education, and the Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Technology. He is also a Member of the Party Committee of the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include Energy biotechnology, enzyme engineering, synthetic biology, and aquatic biology. Key technologies, engineering, and industrialization of biodiesel preparation, high-value technologies and engineering applications of biodiesel and oils; lipase genetic engineering, fermentation engineering, protein engineering, structural biology, new enzyme immobilization technologies, and their application research and development in the fields of bioenergy, health foods, bio-based new materials, chiral drug separation, and synthesis of new fine chemicals.