Zhu Li is a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Guizhou University. She is the director of the Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences; a provincial expert; one of the “100-level” high-level innovative talents in Guizhou Province; and an outstanding young scientific and technological talent in Guizhou Province. She graduated from Guizhou University with a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Engineering in 2000, a master’s degree in Microbiology in 2003, and a doctorate in Pesticide Science in 2008. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Arkansas from 2014 to 2015. She is mainly engaged in research in the field of microbiology, in the direction of synthetic biology, mainly including droplet microfluidics, ultra-high throughput screening of biocontrol bacteria, splicing and modification of biosynthetic pathways or metabolic pathways of microbial active metabolites, and microbial breeding. She has presided over or participated in many National Natural Science Foundation and provincial and ministerial projects and won the 2022 Second Guizhou Province Outstanding Science and Technology Individual Award, the 12th Dabeinong Science and Technology Award Innovation Award, and the third prize of the 2019-2021 National Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries Harvest Award. Her Chinese invention patent for “A Kind of Aspergillus Niger Micropellets” won the “Silver Award” of the 2021-2022 Guizhou Province Patent Award.