Qiu Qin Zhang conducted visiting research at the Eastern Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture from 2012 to 2013. In 2014, she obtained a doctorate in engineering from Nanjing Agricultural University. She is mainly engaged in research on microbial detection and control. She is responsible for undergraduate teaching in microbiology. She has presided over or participated in eight scientific research projects, of which five were presided over. She has published more than 30 academic papers, of which more than 10 were included in SCI as the first author. She is an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, and currently serves as a director of the National Food and Drug Industry Science and Technology Innovation Alliance.