Lihong Zhao is an Associate Professor at the College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. She received her Master of Agriculture (2007) and Doctor of Agriculture (2011) in Animal Nutrition and Feed Science from China Agricultural University. She was a Visiting Scholar/Postdoctoral Fellow at the North Carolina State University in 2016–2017. Her research interests include the mining of mycotoxin degrading enzymes, feed and food safety, probiotics and enzyme engineering, molecular toxicity of foodstuff contaminants, and nutritional, physical, chemical and biological mitigation strategies.