Jun Liu received his Master’s degree in Agronomy from Northeast Agricultural University in 2005 and his Doctor of Science degree from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University, USA (2009–2014). He is currently serving as Head of the Research Group of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, where he leads research in crop functional genomics and bioinformatics. His research topics mainly include: bioinformatics, high-throughput biochemical techniques, crop functional genomics, and computational biology.