Ida Bagus Andika has been a professor at Qingdao Agricultural University, China, since 2019; received a Doctor degree from the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Okayama University, Japan, in 2005; worked in Japanese and Chinese research institutions for plant and fungal virus-related studies from 2005 to 2019; and is particularly interested in the research topics such as antiviral RNA silencing and virus transmission/distribution in nature.