Chia-Min Lin was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, on November 4, 1964. He received a Bachelor of Science degree at National Taiwan University in 1987. Chia-Min Lin obtained Master of Science and Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He worked as a Research Coordinator and Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Food Safety, the University of Georgia, from 1999 to 2003. He worked as a Research Associate in the joint program of the University of Georgia and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2003 to 2004. After one year (2004-2005) of being a Food Science Manager at Gascoyne Division, Microbac Laboratories Inc., he returned to his home country, Taiwan, to be an Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Beverage Management at Far East University. After August 2008, he became an Associate Professor at the Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology. He was promoted to be a Professor in August, 2023.