Prof. Wei Chen is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the School of Food Science, at Jiangnan University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Food Science from Wuxi University of Light Industry in 1988 and 1995, respectively, and stayed on to teach at the university after graduation. From 1998 to 2003, he studied for a doctorate at Jiangnan University. Prof. Wei Chen was a visiting researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of California, Davis, in the United States in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He has served as the Dean of the School of Food Science, at Jiangnan University, and the Director of the National Center for Functional Food Engineering. He is currently the President of Jiangnan University. In addition, Prof. Wei Chen won the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund in 2011, was selected as one of the first batch of high-level leading talents in the country in 2012, won the Tan Jiazhen Life Science Award Industrialization Award in 2016, and was selected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019. At the same time, he has successively won the national candidate of the New Century "Hundreds of Thousands of Talents" Project, the State Council Government Special Allowance, and the National "May 1st" Labor Medal. Professor Chen Wei is mainly engaged in teaching and research in food microbiology.